Could this be an improper implementation in CGI::Ajax

[lcs01]

I have been playing with CGI::Ajax these days. Lately, I noticed my code always caused an error:

... returning Bad Request status 400

Then I found out that the error was due to I named one of CGI variable names as 'fname', meaning 'First Name'. Unfortunately, this CGI variable name 'fname' conflicts with a hard coded variable name in Ajax.pm. you may refer to this site for more details:

http://search.cpan.org/src/BCT/CGI-Ajax-0.701/lib/CGI/Ajax.pm.

So, I renamed my variable name something else but 'fname'. Then my code works just fine!

I would say that Ajax.pm should not have hard coded a variable name like this. Or CPAN should have made 'fname' as a reserved name for Ajax.pm.

What do you guys think?

 

[brigmar]

A bit naive for an AJAX module to hardcode a filename reference as fname, with that being a popular contraction of firstname.

Definitely something to let the author know about.