The most obvious advice i can give is to use the glorious perl CGI.pm module. This module comes with the standard distribution of perl and should be available on your machine...

To get at your variables, try something like:

#!/usr/bin/perl 

# Loads the CGI Module
use CGI;

# creates a new CGI object
my $page = new CGI;

# This will print a standard HTML header
print $page->header;

# Grab a named CGI parameter
# CGI::pm automatically figures out
# if it's sent by GET or POST

my $value = $page->param('node');

# Then:

print "<html><head><title>node is $value</title></head>\n";
print "<body> Hi, you are on the $value node!</body></html>\n";

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There are many more features to this great module. Learn about this before you do any other CGI programming.

In reply to Re: Making webpages from a single CGI by mr_dont
in thread Making webpages from a single CGI by Anonymous Monk

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