NAME

CGI::XA - Clone of CGI.pm with less backwards compatibility and less namespace pollution

SYNOPSIS

use CGI::XA;
blah blah blah

BE AWARE, THIS IS ALPHA SOFTWARE

It's main purpose is to start a discussion about CGI.pm. Maybe parts of this will be folded back to CGI.pm, and then probably this module won't be developed any further.

DESCRIPTION

I have started with major hacks on top of Lincoln's version 2.23 of CGI.pm in order to get rid of both AUTOLOADING and uncontrolled global variables.

I release this package as CGI::XA (which stands for "for Apache") for a limited audience as a test case.

This software is alpha software and it is not clear if it will be supported for a longer time. My preferred solution would be, Lincoln accepts all the changes and continues with his excellent work.

where are the main differences?

No AUTOLOAD
use strict clean
no exports
no cgi-lib.pl compatibility
no "Q" namespace

BUGS

With this code I cannot use the file upload feature as expected. Only the first file upload within a the life of a server is guaranteed to work. Also ok are small files < 2k (haven't tested the exact limit where things go astray).

DOCUMENTATION

is in CGI.pm with which we are quite compatible with. See comments in the code.

AUTHOR

Lincoln D. Stein of course, but he has not authorized the work. Responsibility is with Andreas König <andreas.koenig@mind.de>

SEE ALSO

perl(1).