V. B. de Haan wrote:
> Hi perlers,
>  
> To send information from a HTML-form to a perl script, you can yous this
> syntax: http://127.0.0.1/script.pl?data=this-is-a-very-long-string but
> it's not very usefull to send very long strings or files. Can anyone
> tell me another method?

You can use the POST method instead of the default GET method.  CGI will
see the data on STDIN.  Very long strings aren't usually a problem even
for the GET method (just a little hard to read) until you exceed the max.

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