# NAME

CGI::Emulate::PSGI - PSGI adapter for CGI

# SYNOPSIS

    my $app = CGI::Emulate::PSGI->handler(sub {
        # Existent CGI code, or just:
        do "script.cgi";
    });

## DESCRIPTION

This module allows an application designed for the CGI environment to
run in a PSGI environment, and thus on any of the backends that PSGI
supports.

It works by translating the environment provided by the PSGI
specification to one expected by the CGI specification. Likewise, it
captures output as it would be prepared for the CGI standard, and
translates it to the format expected for the PSGI standard.

# CGI.pm

If your application uses [CGI](http://search.cpan.org/search?mode=module&query=CGI), be sure to cleanup the global
variables in the handler loop yourself, so:

    my $app = CGI::Emulate::PSGI->handler(sub {
        do "script-that-uses-cgi-pm.cgi";
        CGI::initialize_globals() if defined &CGI::initialize_globals;
    });

Otherwise previous request variables will be reused in the new
requests.

Alternatively, you can install and use [CGI::PSGI](http://search.cpan.org/search?mode=module&query=CGI::PSGI) from CPAN, but
that would require you to slightly change your code from:

  my $q = CGI->new;
  # ...
  print $q->header, $output;

into:

  use CGI::PSGI;

  my $app = sub {
      my $env = shift;
      my $q = CGI::PSGI->new($env);
      # ...
      return [ $q->psgi_header, [ $output ] ];
  };

See [CGI::PSGI](http://search.cpan.org/search?mode=module&query=CGI::PSGI) for details.

# SEE ALSO

[PSGI](http://search.cpan.org/search?mode=module&query=PSGI).

# AUTHOR

Tokuhiro Matsuno <tokuhirom@cpan.org>

Tatsuhiko Miyagawa

# COPYRIGHT AND LICENSE

Copyright (c) 2009 by tokuhirom.

This program is free software; you can redistribute
it and/or modify it under the same terms as Perl itself.

The full text of the license can be found in the
LICENSE file included with this module.

