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Posted to users@httpd.apache.org by ti...@comcast.net on 2015/07/07 21:29:58 UTC

[users@httpd] CGI Arguments

I can call a cgi script from an html form, but I am not able to call a cgi script with one or more 

command-line arguments. Can anyone tell me how to do that? Thank you very much. 

Timothy Mann

Re: [users@httpd] CGI Arguments

Posted by ti...@comcast.net.

Kurtis, 

Thanks very much. 

Timothy Mann 


----- Original Message -----

From: "Kurtis Rader" <kr...@skepticism.us> 
To: users@httpd.apache.org 
Sent: Tuesday, July 7, 2015 5:36:56 PM 
Subject: Re: [users@httpd] CGI Arguments 

On Tue, Jul 7, 2015 at 12:29 PM, < tim_mann@comcast.net > wrote: 



I can call a cgi script from an html form, but I am not able to call a cgi script with one or more command-line arguments. Can anyone tell me how to do that? Thank you very much. 




CGI scripts don't have command-line arguments. Information is passed to them from the web server via environment variables and, for POST requests, standard input. You pass arguments to a CGI script via the URI query string. See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Common_Gateway_Interface 

-- 
Kurtis Rader 
Caretaker of the exceptional canines Junior and Hank

Re: [users@httpd] CGI Arguments

Posted by Kurtis Rader <kr...@skepticism.us>.

On Tue, Jul 7, 2015 at 12:29 PM, <ti...@comcast.net> wrote:

> I can call a cgi script from an html form, but I am not able to call a cgi
> script with one or more command-line arguments.  Can anyone tell me how
> to do that?  Thank you very much.
>

CGI scripts don't have command-line arguments. Information is passed to
them from the web server via environment variables and, for POST requests,
standard input. You pass arguments to a CGI script via the URI query
string. See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Common_Gateway_Interface

-- 
Kurtis Rader
Caretaker of the exceptional canines Junior and Hank