Re: Populate CGI from HTTP::Request wo/ using %ENV ?

RFC 3875 says that the meta-variables (which include the QUERY_STRING) are passed to the script in identically named environment variables. These are accessed by the C library routine getenv() or variable environ. (item 7.2 of RFC3875).

As thus the environment variables are populated outside of your script by the server, you will have to find a way to capture these variables in a local data structure before messing around with them.

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Re^2: Populate CGI from HTTP::Request wo/ using %ENV ? by ikegami (Patriarch) on Mar 09, 2008 at 23:29 UTC
There's no relation between CGI (the protocol) using the environment and the need to create a CGI object from a HTTP::Request object. For example, CGI (the module) can already create an object from an Apache::Request object without touching the environment.	[reply]