CGI version 2.74 missing offline mode

InfiniteSilence has asked for the wisdom of the Perl Monks concerning the following question:

Version 2.56 on Win32 automatically opens an 'offline mode' where you can put your parameter values on the command line (for testing purposes). Version 2.74 doesn't do this. It simply runs the code. There are a bunch of variables to configure CGI differently, but the documentation is sparse. Anybody know how to turn offline mode back on?

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Re: CGI version 2.74 missing offline mode by davorg (Chancellor) on Apr 12, 2001 at 20:37 UTC
You can switch the old behaviour back on by passing `-debug` to the `use CGI` statement. `use CGI qw(:standard -debug);` [download] See the CGI,pm docs at http://search.cpan.org/doc/LDS/CGI.pm-2.753/cgi_docs.html#debugging for details. -- <http://www.dave.org.uk> "Perl makes the fun jobs fun and the boring jobs bearable" - me	[reply] [d/l]
Re: CGI version 2.74 missing offline mode by Asim (Hermit) on Apr 12, 2001 at 20:42 UTC
According to my CGI.pm docs for 2.74, it still does this. From the section labeled "DEBUGGING": If you are running the script from the command line or in the perl debugger, you can pass the script a list of keywords or parameter=value pairs on the command line or from standard input (you don't have to worry about tricking your script into reading from environment variables). You can pass keywords like this: your_script.pl keyword1 keyword2 keyword3 or this: your_script.pl keyword1+keyword2+keyword3 Questions, if I may: 1) To you have the `-no_debug` option on in your use statement? 2) What is different between the OSes/Perl versions you run 2.56 and 2.74 on? Check out that section I mention above in CGI's documentation, and make sure you're using a command structure that isn't getting hosed by Win32's shell. ----Asim, known to some as Woodrow.	[reply] [d/l]