Re: CGI module deprecation

2017-11-30 Thread tomcat
Hi. To contribute my 0.02€ to the matter : First of all, I believe that it is worth re-reading https://metacpan.org/pod/distribution/CGI/lib/CGI.pod#DESCRIPTION and pondering what it really says. For example this : "CGI.pm performs very well in a vanilla CGI.pm environment and also comes with

Re: CGI module deprecation

2017-11-29 Thread Brian Scott
I've just put a system together with CGI::Simple and everything seemed to behave properly. I seem to recall other CGI.pm compatible things out there as well when I was looking around. CGI::Simple seems to be working well enough that at some point I might go back and tweak some old stuff that uses C

Re: CGI module deprecation

2017-11-29 Thread Michael A. Capone
"and uses the CGI module only for parsing the incoming request." I was going to follow up on this thread and ask for suggestions on what I could/should use for incoming request parsing. I have never gone further in mod_perl beyond Apache::Registry and just running traditional CGI programs, an

Re: CGI module deprecation

2017-11-29 Thread Randal L. Schwartz
> "Russell" == Russell Lundberg writes: Russell> T::T also works terrific with mod_perl, which is useful if your Russell> apps are database-intensive. mod_perl also has other Russell> capabilities to allow you to move away from the CGI module. Russell> libapreq/Apache::Request My CGI::Proto

Re: CGI module deprecation

2017-11-26 Thread Russell Lundberg
I suggest Template::Toolkit ( http://search.cpan.org/~abw/Template-Toolkit-2.27/) Most of my web apps are also relatively light on HTML, for which T::T works great. And to your well-founded concern, T::T makes it pretty easy to keep separate logic and presentation. Although keep in mind that is a

CGI module deprecation

2017-11-26 Thread Igor Chudov
I am a very long term user of the famous CGI module. My biggest project is www.algebra.com. There are al;so many others. Let me mention that my use of perl on the web, a very long time ago, started out with Embperl. At that time, I thought that use of HTML templates with perl code sprinkled in is