How to post username and password to .cgi form

[just4priya]

Hie,

I am trying to post username and password to a .cgi form from a console based unix terminal.
Is it possible for posting data using Perl script?

Deperately looking out for suggestions/help..

Thanks

[KevinADC]

Are you running a CGI script? Normally you would use a CGI form to pass data via HTTP to a CGI script. You can pass data to a perl script via the command line, the simplest way:

perl script.pl var1 var2 var3

but the perl script has to be written to get data from the command line and not from a CGI form. You can use the CGI module in 'debug' mode to run CGI scripts from the command line and pass in data. See the CGI module documentation for details.

[just4priya]

Actually its .cgi form..and i was to post login data for authentication.
Could we download the cgi form and execute it ???

I have never tried my hands on cgi & perl scripting..
Please advise

[KevinADC]

Actually its .cgi form..and i was to post login data for authentication.
Could we download the cgi form and execute it ???

I have never tried my hands on cgi & perl scripting..
Please advise

You lost me.Forms don't do anything except send data, you need a script on the server to process the data. If you already have a script that does some kind of authentication all you need to do is create a form and send the data to the script. If you do not have a script you will have to write one.