Hi,

I seem to have come across a curious nature of the CGI module. When I go to look up parameters, it seems to fail when there are both GET and POST parameters. It reads GET variables fine when nothing is POST'd, but when something is, all the GET variables go away.

Any ideas? Thanks.

Update:
Wow, my fault. This was a question better left unasked, seeing as a quick trip to CGI.pm's documentation solves it.
The param() method will always return the contents of the POSTed fill-out form, ignoring the URL's query string.
Apparently the only reason why my initial code (without POSTed data) must have been some undocumented behavior designed to bugcatch.

Thanks for the help.

In reply to CGI Parameters by salazar

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