The monks who are --'ing you fall in two categories:
  1. Monks who have really studied CGI and know the problems of "hand-rolled" CGI parsing.
  2. Monks who trust those who claim to be in the first category.
While I admit that I am no Perl guru, I definitely fall in the first category. Suggesting to someone that they can "live without the CGI module" is dangerous. The implication, if the statement is unqualified, suggests that it's okay to not use CGI.pm. Unfortunately, no one should go down that road unless the know exactly what they are doing, but the monk in question specifically stated that /s?he/ was new to Perl.

I'll make you a deal. Post your CGI handling code and if I can't point out the problems with it, I will offer you my humblest apologies and acknowledge that you are a genius.

I'm not trying to be rude and I hope you don't take it this way, but I am very dismayed when I see people try to suggest alternatives without a very clear reason why.

Cheers,
Ovid

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In reply to (Ovid - why not CGI.pm?) Re(2): text file w/o CGI by Ovid
in thread text file w/o CGI by spunkcell

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