This is not tested, but should get you close enough

#!/usr/bin/perl

sub emailreply{
use strict;#comment this out after debugging, but leave it here for yo
+ur next adventure
use CGI;
my $q = CGI->new();
$q->ReadParse();

my $smsreplydir = 'd:\inetpub\wwwroot\cgi-bin\classads\test';

my $from = $q->{ "from" };
my $msg = $q->{ "text" };
my $msgid = $q->{ "msgid" };


open (SMSREPLY, ">>$smsreplydir/abc.txt");
print SMSREPLY "\n $msgid\n $from\n\n $msg\n\n";
close SMSREPLY;

print $q->header(); #sends your HTTP 200 OK header to the browser, you
+ can control alot of this info yourself
print $q->start_html();#handles the html body tag
#There are more subs that can handle all of your html needs, tables, e
+tc.
print "Thanks for your input. The information has been forwarded to th
+e Big Cheese.\n";#Change this to your liking
print $q->end_html();#End the html page properly


  }

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Check out http://search.cpan.org/~lds/CGI.pm-3.25/CGI.pm#PRAGMAS

The style of your original script needs to be updated to the better supported OO style that uses modules and packages

I remember seeing this type of scripting back in the days of cgi-lib.pl

Check to see if use CGI is already called, if it is, set a different scalar for CGI->new() instead of $q.

You may use any scalar you want, but $q might be used elsewhere in the scripting.

In reply to Re: HTTP 200 Status by Sagacity
in thread HTTP 200 Status by dmsparts

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