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Date: 2010feb11
Language: perl
Platform: web

Q.  How do I get a hash of the perl CGI variables?

A.  Here's how you do that and some other handy perl CGI functions.

# Returns has hash of the CGI variables
sub getHash($)
{
	my($q) = @_;

	return $q->Vars;
}

sub exampleUse()
{
	my($q, %h, $thing);

	$q = new CGI;
	%h = getHash($q);
	$thing = $h{thing};
}

#---------------------------------------------

sub getNames($)
{
	my($q) = @_;

	return $q->param;
} 

sub exampleUse()
{
	my($q, $i);

	$q = new CGI;
	for $i (getNames($q))
	{
		print "$i\n";
	}
}

#---------------------------------------------

sub isSSL($)
{
	my($q) = @_;
	my($url);

	return $q->url() =~ m/^https:/i;
}

sub exampleUse()
{
	my($q);

	$q = new CGI;
	if (!isSSL($q))
	{
		print "Not secure\n";
		return;
	}
}

#---------------------------------------------

sub ensureSSL($)
{
	my($q) = @_;

	if (!isSSL($q))
	{
		my($url);

		$url = $q->url();
		$url =~ s/http:/https:/;
		print qq(<meta http-equiv="refresh" content="0; url=$url">);
		return 0;
	}

	return 1;
}

sub exampleUse()
{
	my($q);

	$q = new CGI;
	return if !ensureSSL($q);
}

#---------------------------------------------

# Does the same as CGI::query_string() but with &'s
sub getQueryString($)
{
	my($q) = @_;
	my($i, $qs);

	for $i (getNames($q))
	{
		if ($qs) { $qs .= '&'; }
		$qs .= $i . '=' . $q->param($i);
	}

	return $qs;
}