[cgiapp] Trying to understand how CGI::App works

["Cox, Todd (NIH/NCI)" <suppressed>]

Hello all,

 

I have started working with CGI::Application and HTML::Template and have
found it to be great! I now can separate my code from HTML and it is much
cleaner. I have a fundamental lack of knowledge that is very puzzling to my
current app. I have a simple form app that when a user goes to the site it
does the following:

 

1.	Mode_1: Using a radiobutton asks the user to choose 1 of two choices
of selection.
2.	Mode_2: Based on the selection a popup box is displayed asking for
more specific input.
3.	Mode_3: Once the input has been selected an ldap search of our
central directory service is performed to get email addresses.
4.	Mode_4: Compose an email message to send to all of the returned
users.
5.	Mode_5: Confirm and send.

 

The problem I ran into is that the message body is part of the URL string
and I don't want that. So then I figured Apache::Session would take care of
that and in a way it did. The problem is I am creating a new session when I
go to the next run mode because I am creating a new instance of my
application. How can I 1) eliminate the CGI param(message) body from being
shown on the URL or 2) get just one session to start? I was going on the
thought that since there was a setup that automagically it would run that
once and I would have one session object.

 

Any thoughts?

 

T. Cox

National Cancer Institute

Rockville, MD