What is the best way to pass selected rows to a cgi-bin script?

bigsipper

I need to pass only the rows a user has selected (multiple rows at one time -sometimes up to a few hundred) to
a cgi-bin script.

The cgi-bin script will need to process the data, make some database entries, send emails, etc....

What is the best way for me to deliver the selected data to the cgi-bin?

Should I build a form with a hidden 'data' field and POST it to the url of the cgi-bin script?
I don't think a GET method would work....

-Bigsipper

bigsipper

Duh.... I guess this was a dumb question.
The answer I came upon is that the selected data object can be passed like any other object
in javascript:

client side code:
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var oTT = TableTools.fnGetInstance( 'table' );
var aData = oTT.fnGetSelectedData();

$.post('cgi-bin/notify.cgi',{recompid: recompid, data: JSON.stringify(aData, null, 2)});
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server side code:
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my $req = new CGI();
my $vars = $req->Vars();
my %params = map { $_, $vars->{$_} =~ /\0/ ? [ split /\0/, $vars->{$_} ] : $vars->{$_} } keys %$vars;

foreach my $row ( $json->decode($params{data}) ){
yada... yada...
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