[GLLUG] CGI/Perl Script

[Adam McDougall]

On Sun, Aug 18, 2002 at 09:24:06PM -0400, Matt Graham wrote:

  On Sunday 18 August 2002 20:53, after a long battle with technology, 
  Mike Johnson wrote:
  > Can anyone suggest a good CGI or perl script that is easily
  > configurable and and works well.
  
  #!/usr/bin/perl -w
  use CGI;
  print header, h1("Hello, world!")
  print end_html;
  
  Works well.  Configurable by editing in your favorite text editor.  Or 
  is that not what you meant?
  
  Maybe you should phrase your question a bit more explicitly, like "How 
  do you get mod_perl working with Apache on Linux?", or "What is a good 
  CGI-Perl based set of scripts that does $FOO?", or "How can I implement 
  a site that does $BAR using CGI-Perl scripts that query a $BAZ 
  database?"
  

Since you are so inviting... :)

Could anyone point me to or give me a crash course in passing multiple 
variables supplied via a url to a Perl script?   Basically I want to 
have a program pass several arguments to a CGI script that would 
combine them to create a file path which it would deal with.  I know
trusting user supplied paths is bad, so I figure I could give it 
each component of the path seperately and the CGI could combine them
using /'s to form a real path, so I can discard any /'s from user input.