[Pdx-pm] testing simulated CGI input
Randall Hansen
randall at sonofhans.net
Sun Sep 12 19:56:41 CDT 2004
On Sep 12, 2004, at 11:17 AM, <publiustemp-pdxpm at yahoo.com> wrote:
> why not just call the script directly and have the query string
> embedded in the script?
ok, i finally got this to work. the solution was interesting to me so
i thought i'd share it with the list. those already in-the-know,
forgive me.
ovid's suggestion* worked fine served by apache, but not at all from
the command line. that's a problem, since this code is for a suite of
automated tests. i poked around in CGI.pm a bit and saw that it
doesn't parse $ENV{ QUERY_STRING } at all unless $ENV{ REQUEST_METHOD }
is 'GET' or 'HEAD'.
here's the working test code. if you remove the line setting $ENV{
REQUEST_METHOD } it gives no output.
#!/usr/bin/perl
use warnings;
use strict;
use CGI;
$ENV{ REQUEST_METHOD } = 'GET';
$ENV{ QUERY_STRING } = 'number=3172';
my $cgi = CGI->new;
print $cgi->param( 'number' );
r
*no criticism of ovid's advice is intended. i wrote my question late
at night and pry could have been clearer. and anyway, it made me open
up CGI.pm, which was cool.
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