CGI not catching parameters?

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

I have this front end javascript that calls my perl like this when I click a link:

cgi-bin/rpt.pl?dataname=ASRHOUR
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The problem is, the very first thing I do in the perl is check which parameter for dataname is sent, but it isn't populating! Here is the beginning:

use strict;
use File::Glob ':glob';
use DBI;
use JSON;
use POSIX qw(strftime);
use POSIX ":sys_wait_h";
use warnings;
use CGI;
use CGI::Carp qw/fatalsToBrowser/;
use Data::Dumper;

my $query = CGI->new;
my $reportname = $query->param('dataname');
print $query->header;
print Dumper $query;
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And nothing is pushed into $reportname. It's blank. If I execute the script directly, and not thru the button click, it reports data fine. The kicker is, I have the newest Firebug in firefox installed, so it's SHOWING me the correct parameter name. If I hard code $reportname, it works great. So basically I execute

http://localhost/cgi-bin/rpt.pl?dataname=ASRHOUR
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It's fine I see in firebug this being executed through the GUI:

http://localhost/cgi-bin/rpt.pl?dataname=ASRHOUR
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And nothing happens. So I am under the impression I am not catching the parameter correctly. Also, under the params section in the Firebug, it shows the correct parameter name & value. Please help, I been staring at this all day.

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Re: CGI not catching parameters? by sfink (Deacon) on Aug 17, 2007 at 03:52 UTC
You are mixing URL parameters and POST parameters. That's a little funky, though common. See the section of the CGI.pm documentation titled "MIXING POST AND URL PARAMETERS". The short answer is that you'll have to get your 'dataname' via url_param() instead of the usual param().	[reply]
Re^2: CGI not catching parameters? by hallikpapa (Scribe) on Aug 17, 2007 at 04:46 UTC
You sir, have relieved so much pressure off my neck...thank you	[reply]
Re: CGI not catching parameters? by Gangabass (Vicar) on Aug 17, 2007 at 03:11 UTC
Maybe some kind of your browser caching mechanism? Did your try to clear cache before click on the button?	[reply]
Re^2: CGI not catching parameters? by hallikpapa (Scribe) on Aug 17, 2007 at 03:26 UTC
I clear everything each time. Cookies, downloaded temp files, etc... I am stumped and COMPLETELY lost So in Firebuge, this is what I see: `PARAMS: dataname ASRHOUR` [download] `POST dir ASC limit 12 sort ID start 0` [download] And when I print the contents of the $query, I get this: RESPONSE $VAR1 = bless( { '.parameters' => [ 'start', 'limit', 'sort', 'dir' ], 'use_tempfile' => 1, 'dir' => [ 'ASC' ], 'sort' => [ 'ID' ], '.charset' => 'ISO-8859-1', '.cookies' => { 'PHPSESSID' => bless( { 'value' => [ +'2a4176bd2b0457d34949778a2d910 36e' ], 'name' => 'PH +PSESSID', 'path' => '/' }, 'CGI::Cookie +' ), 'ys-reportDate' => bless( { 'value' = +> [ + 's:2007-08-16' + ], 'name' => + 'ys-reportDate', 'path' => + '/' }, 'CGI::Co +okie' ) }, '.fieldnames' => {}, 'limit' => [ '12' ], 'escape' => 1, 'start' => [ '0' ] }, 'CGI' ); [download] So it's showing somehting in the CGI params, but not what is listed in Firebug? Huzzah? again, The script is executed like this rpt.pl?dataname=ASRHOUR And it's capturing everything but what I tell it to capture?	[reply] [d/l] [select]


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