[cgiapp] run mode issues when posting data

Michael Peters mpeters at plusthree.com
Tue Nov 25 12:39:05 EST 2008


Michael De Soto wrote:

> I had a little bit of trouble passing the POST parameters to the login
> run mode. This was solved by stashing them in the app's param during
> cgiapp_init. I assume this is how we handle POST parameters. All the
> docs I read didn't differentiate between GET and POST. I found out the
> hard way that GET parameters were always available to the app, while
> POST had to be handled with kid gloves. Any wisdom regarding POST and
> "best practices" would be greatly appreciated. I simply do the
> following:

For normal name/value pairs there is no difference between GET and POST params when handling them in 
your application. You can get both from $self->query->param(). Something else is wrong with your 
application.

-- 
Michael Peters
Plus Three, LP



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