[CTS] Re: GGI runs CGI
- From: John Madden <weez@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: computertalkshop@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Thu, 28 Mar 2002 18:51:01 -0500
> The idea is to create a censor script that filters link page submissions
> (to get around the sneaky page spammers who won't get to the real script
> until they pass the censor). It does that, but since it uses the
> variables provided from a link page form, those variables become
> unavailable to the second script (drat!). I know they are filled in
> correctly.
Right - the problem is that those variables are passed to the first script
using CGI - in other words, something like
http://host/path/to/script.pl?var1=something&var2=something+else
That's where "becoming a HTTP client" comes in. If you really need to
call the second script, I suggest you pass the args to the script as
command line arguments:
system("/path/to/script2.pl", "arg1", "arg2");
and utilize them inside script2.pl as $ARGV[0] and $ARGV[1]. But please,
please note: using system() can be *extremely* dangerous. You're
executing something at the shell here - security first. If there's any
other way of using the code in the second script (copy the code from it
into the first, for example), I suggest you take that route.
John
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