CGI.pm not interactive at command line

[Peter_W_Levine]

Hi,

I'm attempting to test a cgi script using CGI.pm (perl v5.8.7 on
Windows 2000). However, the script does not go into interactive mode &
ask me for parameters as I exprected when I execute it on the command
line but simply runs the script.

My script begins:

my @params = param();
if(! @params)
{
display_form();
}
else
{
}

How should I begin a script to get CGI.pm to work interactively?


Pete

 

[Jürgen Exner]

Hi,

I'm attempting to test a cgi script using CGI.pm (perl v5.8.7 on
Windows 2000). However, the script does not go into interactive mode &
ask me for parameters as I exprected when I execute it on the command
line but simply runs the script.

My script begins:

my @params = param();
if(! @params)
{
display_form();
}
else
{
}

How should I begin a script to get CGI.pm to work interactively?


Pete

 

[Jürgen Exner]

I'm attempting to test a cgi script using CGI.pm (perl v5.8.7 on
Windows 2000). However, the script does not go into interactive mode &
ask me for parameters as I exprected when I execute it on the command
line but simply runs the script.

Why do you expect the script to ask for parameters?

How should I begin a script to get CGI.pm to work interactively?

Don't the methods that are described in the documentation for CGI.pm (see
section DEBUGGING) work?

jue

 

[Alan J. Flavell]

Why do you expect the script to ask for parameters?

You might recall that earlier versions of CGI.pm did precisely that
when called from the command line. At some point, it was changed so
that the interactive mode had to be called for explicitly. I would
surmise that the original poster is using some outdated documentation
or tutorial for CGI.pm.

hope this helps

 

[brian d foy]

Why do you expect the script to ask for parameters?

CGI.pm used to prompt for values if it didn't find any and you
were using interactive session. Some version changed that. It's
actually quite annoying.