alternative way not using param('userid')

[Carl Ogawa]

The following will stop to open test.pl due to using param('userid') and
param('pwd').
Is there an alternative way to get data from HTML file to CGI file? I have
to do this in the particular situation.
-------- html file ---------
<form name = "form3" action = "http://localhost/scripts/test.pl" method =
post>
Name: <INPUT TYPE = text NAME = "userid" size=25 value="OGAWA">< p>
Password: <INPUT TYPE = password NAME = "pwd" size=12 ><p>
<input type = submit value = "Submit">
</form>
--------- cgi file (test.pl) ------ ActivePerl 5.8 --------------------
#!/usr/local/bin/perl

use CGI qw(:standard);
my ($user, $passwd);
$user = param('userid') ;
$passwd = param('pwd');

[nobull]

"Carl Ogawa" <jd******@comca st.net> wrote in message news:<jQeHb.148 704$8y1.436413@ attbi_s52>...

The following will stop to open test.pl due to using param('userid') and
param('pwd').
Is there an alternative way to get data from HTML file to CGI file? I have
to do this in the particular situation.
It is totally unclear what is "this" and what is "the particular
situation".

The only way that user interaction with an HTML document (not
containing client side scripts) can communicate to something on the
HTTP server is to generate an HTTP request via a link or a form
submission. This has nothing to do with Perl (or indeed CGI) - it has
only to do with HTTP and HTML.

I suspect whatever it was you were trying to ask has nothing whatever
to do with Perl.

Random shot in the dark: The protool HTTP has a basic authentication
mechanism.
-------- html file ---------
<form name = "form3" action = "http://localhost/scripts/test.pl" method =
post>
Name: <INPUT TYPE = text NAME = "userid" size=25 value="OGAWA">< p>
Password: <INPUT TYPE = password NAME = "pwd" size=12 ><p>
<input type = submit value = "Submit">
</form>
--------- cgi file (test.pl) ------ ActivePerl 5.8 --------------------
#!/usr/local/bin/perl

use CGI qw(:standard);
my ($user, $passwd);
$user = param('userid') ;
$passwd = param('pwd');

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