13:14 <#perl6> t****: y'know, one thing that got me into Ruby was that the CGI library would auto-detect that I was testing it in a browser and take arguments as if I was working in a browser. Made troubleshooting a breeze... 13:14 <#perl6> t****: I mean, testing from the command line... 13:15 <#perl6> t****: I always wished the perl CGI module would do that... 13:16 <#perl6> P*******: eh? 13:17 <#perl6> t****: When you write a ruby cgi program, and run it from the command line, it detects that you are in a command line and allows you to input stuff that it would normally get from the URL string. 13:17 <#perl6> t****: Maybe there is a way to do this with the perl cgi module, but I never learned how. 13:17 <#perl6> P*******: perl's CGI module has always done that. 13:18 <#perl6> P*******: you simply pass name=val on the command line 13:18 <#perl6> P*******: (or you could set some environment variables) 13:18 <#perl6> t****: hm... Wish I had known that then...

#!/usr/bin/perl use strict; use CGI; my $q = CGI->new(); print $q->header(-content_type => 'text/plain', -charset => 'utf-8'), "Hello, ", $q->param('name') || "NoName", "!\n"

% perl test.cgi name=lestrrat Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Hello, lestrrat!