Passing a variable

[fergmj]

I have a link on a web page that says "HELLO"

When the user clicks on this, I want it to start a cgi but the cgi needs to know what the words are in the link the user clicked.

Does anyone know how to do this? How do I pass that to the cgi?

Thanks

 

[goBoating]

make the link just a little smarter.....

Instead of...

<a href=&quot;[URL unfurl="true"]http://www.yourserver.com/cgi-bin/your.cgi&quot;>Hello</a>[/URL]

Use

<a href=&quot;[URL unfurl="true"]http://www.yourserver.com/cgi-bin/your.cgi?do=Hello&quot;>Hello</a>[/URL]

Then, in your CGI code, the 'do' form var will contain 'Hello'.
You must allow for the 'GET' method in your CGI. If you are using CGI.pm, it handles that for you.

#!/usr/local/bin/perl
use CGI;
my $cgi = new CGI;
$doWhat = $cgi->param('do');


HTH





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