Is there a way to send arguments to a perl script?

BridgeScore · Post by **BridgeScore** » Fri Mar 10, 2006 4:48 am

I have a perl script that generates a web page. I would like to send an argument with the URL. Is this possible?

http://www.mywebsite.com/myscript.pl argument

I have tried HTTPrequest. I don't think perl uses value pairs just an argument whould would be ARGV[0] etc...

Perhaps something in VBSCRIPT??

Scripts are running on an Apache linux server.
I have root permission.

Thanks

Me_again · Post by **Me_again** » Fri Mar 10, 2006 4:54 am

This is a bit off the reservation but you can definitely do that with php like:

http://www.yoururl.com/yourfile.php?variable=value

BridgeScore · Post by **BridgeScore** » Fri Mar 10, 2006 5:21 am

Yes I know that. But the script is perl not php. It is rather large to rewrite.

BridgeScore · Post by **BridgeScore** » Sat Mar 11, 2006 1:58 am

There is one way. Not a great way but a way.
place the following code in your perl file and make
sure that it is in an executable
directory or home directory and that it is executable.
chmod 755
============================================
open( FORMFILE, " to upload the file to the server place in directory
where you told the perl file to look above.

Then when the perl file runs it will grab the
value pairs from the formlog.txt file.

Me_again · Post by **Me_again** » Sat Mar 11, 2006 3:02 am

CGI is another possibility http://www.unix.org.ua/orelly/perl/learn32/ch18_04.htm

BridgeScore · Post by **BridgeScore** » Sat Mar 11, 2006 4:11 am

Thank you Me_again

I had tried that and it did not work for me. Your URL http://www.unix.org.ua/orelly/perl/learn32/ch18_04.htm pointed me in the right direction.

I had:

use CGI qw(:standard);

I needed to add:

use CGI qw(param);

It works great now. Thanks for the research