in reply to Re: How to pass more parameters to a CGI program than inputs in an HTML page?
in thread How to pass more parameters to a CGI program than inputs in an HTML page?

That's not quite correct. You can pass extra parameters, but you'll need to use the URL, and will have to do some extra processing by hand. For example, arrange to post a form to http://www.example.comx/foo.cgi/extra/params/here The parameters (along with the CGI name) will be available to the script in $ENV{PATH_INFO}.

This trick works on both Apache and IIS.

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Re: Re: Re: How to pass more parameters to a CGI program than inputs in an HTML page?
by BlueLines (Hermit) on Feb 22, 2001 at 07:50 UTC
    Just the same, you could add an extra arg on the end of the cgi request: 
    http://www.example.com/foo.cgi?param1=foo&param2=bar&extrasneakyextrap
+aram=foobar

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    This assumes that the cgi does no sanity checking on args it recieves.

    BlueLines

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      Oh? Have you tried this with CGI.pm? And did you figure out why it didn't work?
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