in reply to Debugging Perl .cgi forms

Thanks for all the help on this, everybody. I finally found the problem. It's was this line:

$pwd = $query->param('password');

Apparently, cgi.pm will not allow you to assign a variable to an object (in this case the 'password' object) that has not been created yet. Live and learn. I don't think I'll ever make this mistake again.

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Re: Re: Debugging Perl .cgi forms
by nysus (Parson) on Apr 01, 2001 at 07:10 UTC
    P.S.

    I solved the problem by checking to see if the password object is defined. Like this: 

    else {
    if ($query->param('password')) {
        $pwd = $query->param('password');
        if ($pwd eq "suckmydick") {
            $pwd = 1;
                    &form;
                } else {
            &get_password();
        }
    } else {
        &get_password();
    }
}

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