Excellent, thank you both!
> -----Original Message-----
> From: darren chamberlain [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> Sent: Wednesday, April 17, 2002 12:19 PM
> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: Re: [Boston.pm] getting long GETs into perldb
>
>
> * Ron Newman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2002-04-17 11:54]:
> > At 10:12 AM -0500 4/17/2002, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> > >Hello, I'm trying to debug CGI scripts that process long
> URLs such as
> > >the one listed below. Sometimes, the list of name-value pairs is
> > >extremely long. I'm having trouble understanding the syntax of the
> > >debugger name-value input. Do I need to put each name-value pair on
> > >its own line? Is there an easy way for me to get a long and ugly
> > >name-value list loaded into the debugger?
> >
> > perl -d gene_manager.cgi
> "name1=value1&name2=value2&name3=value3" etc.
> > should work.
>
> Or write the whole of the name=value stuff to a file, and invoke it as
> QUERY_STRING="`cat filename`" perl -d gene_manager.cgi and then only
> change the file that contains the data, and not the huge commandline.
>
> (darren)
>
> --
> I invented the term "Object-Oriented", and I can tell you,
> I didn't have C++ in mind.
> -- Alan Kay
>
