CGI::Application is a lightweight, flexible MVC framework used for writing Perl web applications that can be deployed using CGI, FasgCGI, mod_perl, or PSGI.
Questions tagged [cgi-application]
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Perl CGI::Application writing to a document file
I am trying to generate a file in perl 5.8 which reads from an xml file( that has utf-8 encoding) and generates a word document. The code works fine when I run it at the command line.
Same code when run from the CGI::Application it ignores unicode…

Shobha Deepthi
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CGI::Application::Plugin::JSON - json_body returns backwards
I was wondering if anyone knew why this return is backwards with CGI::Application::Plugin::JSON
sub {
my ($self) = @_;
my $q = $self->query;
return $self->json_body({ result => '1', message => 'I should be AFTER result'} );
}
The…

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Perl - CGI::Application - Create session variables from database
I have a bunch of configuration variables stored within a database, key value pairs accessable via the following query:
select * from conf_table;
I want to load these key/value pairs into a CGI::Applicaiton session. At the moment this is manually…

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Perl nginx REST CGI::Application
I'm trying to convert a simple CGI::Application::Dispatch based REST application from an Apache server to Nginx. The application runs fine under Apache, but when running under Nginx, only the root layer of Dispatch requests work -- i.e. /app. Any…

bwern
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Helper perl subroutine not returning in forked process
I have come across a wierd bug that I hope someone can help with. I've tried to provide as much background below without going into too much detail, but am happy to clarify anything confusing.
Im currently working on a web-app that uses Perl for…

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Perl CGI::Session save_param saves all parameters as array under one key
Im using CGI::Session to store session data from CGI::Application (specifically i'm using CGI::Session through the CGI::Application::Plugin::Session module).
In one of my application modes I do this:
my $self = shift;
# Get CGI query object
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How do I upload file using CGI APPLICATION
Hi
I am trying to upload image file using perl cgi-application. Not sure what I am doing wrong - but an empty image file (with the right name) gets saved.
my $picture = $self->query->param('picture') ;
my $buffer;
my $bytesread;
open…

prat
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