If I understand you correctly, then you're middleware is attempting to translate a set of key/value pairs from the user into a URL which is passed to your third party app.

I'll assume that the user input is pre-processed into a hash, and so you need to

  1. Strip out keys that have no meaning to the app
  2. Regularise the hash to ensure that the keys have the right case
  3. Turn it into a URL
The following code does steps 1 and 2 in rapid succession: 
my %input = (
    "NaMe" => "Fred",
    "iD" => "123",
    "PET" => "Cat",
    "spoon" => "garbage",
);
my %caseCorrection =
(
    "name" => "Name",
    "id" => "ID",
    "pet" => "pet",
);
my %output;
%output = map {
        $caseCorrection{lc $_} => $input{$_}
    } grep {
        exists $caseCorrection{lc $_}
    } keys %input;

my $getString = join ";", map {
        "$_=$output{$_}"
    } keys %output;

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The above doesn't handle: Depending on what else is going on before this point, these may be non-issues.

It now occurs to me that I've not used the CGI module anywhere. I hope I've been barking up the right tree...

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In reply to Re: CGI Design issues by wol
in thread CGI Design issues by Anonymous Monk

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