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May 5th, 2008, 04:28 AM

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Retrive values from HTML

How to retrive USERNAME and PASSWORD from the browser window(which is in HTML) using Perl.

My mainwindow in a HTML page i need to get the usename and password from the HTML using Perl and then do validaion later.Valitdation phase i can handle , but i need help for getting the values from HTML page using perl.

May 5th, 2008, 05:02 AM

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For parsing HTML pages, use a tag-aware parser such as HTML::TokeParser or HTML::TokeParser::Simple.

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I don't think the OP is looking to parse HTML, sounds like he's trying to collect the username and password from a browser to process it

perl Code:

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#!/usr/bin/perl use strict; use warnings; use CGI; my $q=new CGI; my $user=$q->param('username'); my $pass=$q->param('password'); if (validate($user, $pass)) { #proceed } else { #display error page }

#!/usr/bin/perl
use strict;
use warnings;
use CGI;
my $q=new CGI;
my $user=$q->param('username');
my $pass=$q->param('password');
if (validate($user, $pass)) {
   #proceed
} else {
   #display error page
}

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