CGI Parameters

worik has asked for the wisdom of the Perl Monks concerning the following question:

I wish to read the CGI parameters in FCGI script.
In the old days I used CGI.pm, but it was a bit heavy weight, but it became a bad habit.
I am looking for a simple package to extract the parameters from $ENV{QUERY_STRING} and the STDIN but cannot find anything appropriate.
There is Plack but it is way way too much. Is there anything small and light weight out there?

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Re: CGI Parameters by hippo (Bishop) on Dec 15, 2016 at 00:45 UTC
Take your pick: CGI::Lite CGI::Thin CGI::Minimal CGI::Simple (not as lightweight as the others but probably still slimmer than plain CGI)	[reply]
Re: CGI Parameters by Your Mother (Archbishop) on Dec 15, 2016 at 02:26 UTC
CGI is fine. If you know it and you have an FCGI env, there is no reason to avoid it really; though the lightweight suggestions by hippo are probably good. Plack is far more lightweight but it's also not appropriate. It's a framework kit and spec, not directly an application development tool.	[reply]
Re: CGI Parameters (CGI.pm, CGI::Fast ) by Anonymous Monk on Dec 15, 2016 at 02:24 UTC
In the old days I used CGI.pm, but it was a bit heavy weight, but it became a bad habit. Well it ain't the old days no more :) use CGI.pm, specifically use it through CGI::Fast , nothing else, not even CGI::Simple approaches CGI.pm in terms of CGI -- if Ye olde CGI your goal use the best, use CGI.pm	[reply]


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