I have the following validation in a CGI script that will check for the GET method and return a 405 HTTP status code if the GET method is not used. Unfortunately it is still returning a 200 Status OK when using POST or PUT.
my ($buffer); # Read in text $ENV{'REQUEST_METHOD'} =~ tr/a-z/A-Z/; if ($ENV{'REQUEST_METHOD'} eq "GET") { $buffer = $ENV{'QUERY_STRING'}; } else { $cgi->$header->status('405 Method Not Allowed') print $cgi->header('text/plain'); }
I am still new to CGI programming so I figured someone here could toss me a bone about working with CGI and HTTP status returns. If a good CGI doc is provided that would be awesome, as most returned by search are CPAN (already read a few times) and really old tutorials that are not Object oriented.