How to execute CGI through HTML's HREF link

Question

I want to create a HTML link. Such that when a link is clicked a CGI-script will be executed instead. That CGI script will take a parameter also.

I'm thinking of doing something like this:

<a href="./cgi-bin/run_script.cgi $param">Query</a>

Is there a right way to do it?

What I'm trying to do is to have a page that contain many words. When a word is clicked, a CGI script will be executed.

Answer 1

The right way would be:

<a href="./cgi-bin/run_script.cgi?param=value">Query</a>

To fetch the value of the parameter in your Perl script:

use CGI;
my $cgi = CGI->new();
my $param = $cgi->param('param');