CGI Script - Not getting form value

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<html>

<head>

<title></title>

<body>

<form name=name form method=post action=C:/inetpub/wwwroot/b.cgi>

enter your name:<input name=name type=text><br>

<input type=submit>

</form>

</body>

</html>

below is the b.cgi file

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#!/perl/bin/perl5.6.1.exe

use strict;

use CGI qw(:standard);

my $name=param("name");

print "Content-Type:text/html\n\n";

print $name;

I am using IIS server......"$n ame" is not getting printed.

Apr 17 '07 #1

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KevinADC

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Add a sanity check to make sure the CGI script is at least working:

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 #!/perl/bin/perl5.6.1.exe

use strict;

use CGI qw(:standard);

my $name=param("name");

print "Content-Type:text/html\n\n";

print "Sanity check - it works\n"

print $name;

Apr 17 '07 #2

tovenkatesh82

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yes the cgi script is working fine.....i have done a sanity check.

Add a sanity check to make sure the CGI script is at least working:

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#!/perl/bin/perl5.6.1.exe

use strict;

use CGI qw(:standard);

my $name=param("name");

print "Content-Type:text/html\n\n";

print "Sanity check - it works\n"

print $name;

.

Apr 18 '07 #3

KevinADC

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maybe its the form tag:

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<form name=name form method=post action=C:/inetpub/wwwroot/b.cgi>

remove the second "form" and retry.

the path also looks wrong:

C:/inetpub/wwwroot/b.cgi

that should be a URL not a machine path.

http://localhost/cgi-bin/b.cgi

or something like that.

Apr 18 '07 #4

tovenkatesh82

New Member

tried out whatever you suggested but it does not works.......can you tell me why
not to use the machine path?......sinc e i am working on iis server i saved the
.cgi file in wwwroot dir.......the path i mentioned in the html file is http://localhost/b.cgi

maybe its the form tag:

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<form name=name form method=post action=C:/inetpub/wwwroot/b.cgi>

remove the second "form" and retry.

the path also looks wrong:

C:/inetpub/wwwroot/b.cgi

that should be a URL not a machine path.

http://localhost/cgi-bin/b.cgi

or something like that.

Apr 18 '07 #5

KevinADC

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The machine path is the direct path to the cgi/perl script. Thats not how you normally invoke cgi scripts from a browser, not even a local script on a local server. You send the request to the server (via a URL) which processes the request and sends a response back to the browser. Maybe iis works differently but I don't think so.

Apr 18 '07 #6

tovenkatesh82

New Member

hi kevin....do i need to install or add some module to my code before using
the param function as the perl compiler is not recognizing the param function....
i looked into CPAN but i did not got anything concrete....do u have any idea
regarding this??

The machine path is the direct path to the cgi/perl script. Thats not how you normally invoke cgi scripts from a browser, not even a local script on a local server. You send the request to the server (via a URL) which processes the request and sends a response back to the browser. Maybe iis works differently but I don't think so.

Apr 19 '07 #7

KevinADC

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You might need to install the CGI.pm module. The version of perl your script appears to be using is very old:

perl5.6.1.exe

I would suggest installing the newest version of perl which I think is 5.8.8 (don't install perl 6).

Apr 19 '07 #8

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