Grabing post data via SSI?

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

I am using a script to pass post data to another html page that uses SSI (exec cgi) to call a perl script. My problem is I am not grabing the post data, since this is the first time I have done this and my google searching is not helping much I thought I would ask here. The perl code is this:

#!C:\Perl\bin\perl.exe
use strict;
use DBI;
use CGI qw~:standard~;
print "Content-type: text/html\n\n";
my ($DBH, $STH, @Address, $Contact);
$Contact = param('Contact');
$DBH = DBI -> connect ('dbi:ODBC:SQLServer', ' ', ' ') or die "$DBI::e
+rrstr";
$STH = $DBH -> prepare (qq~select ContactAddress from dbo.ContactAddre
+ss where ID = '$Contact'~) or die "$DBI::errstr";
$STH -> execute or die "$DBI::errstr";
@Address = $STH -> fetchrow_array();
$DBH -> disconnect;
print "$Contact";
print qq~<a href="mailto:$Address[0]>$Address[0]</a>~;
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Re: Grabing post data via SSI? by ig (Vicar) on Sep 01, 2009 at 00:46 UTC
O'Reilly's CGI Programming might be a good resource for you. It says you can't pass arguments using `exec cgi` but you can using `exec cmd`.	[reply] [d/l] [select]
Re^2: Grabing post data via SSI? by MatthewV (Acolyte) on Sep 01, 2009 at 01:43 UTC
I was afread of that, thanks for the confirm.	[reply]
Re: Grabing post data via SSI? by Your Mother (Archbishop) on Sep 01, 2009 at 02:20 UTC
I'm not clear what you're trying to do but you can include query args (depending on server configs) in SSIs this way: `<!--#include virtual="/cgi-bin/moo.cgi?cow=guernsey;udders=oh-yeah"-->` If you're trying to post something, you can set the form action to post to the real CGI and redirect or write HTML from there.	[reply] [d/l]
Re: Grabing post data via SSI? by Anonymous Monk on Sep 01, 2009 at 00:31 UTC
That is not SSI	[reply]
Re^2: Grabing post data via SSI? by MatthewV (Acolyte) on Sep 01, 2009 at 00:41 UTC
No shit, that is perl code. That is why I put "The perl code is:"	[reply]
Re^3: Grabing post data via SSI? by Anonymous Monk on Sep 01, 2009 at 01:23 UTC
Show then show the SSI and your form	[reply]