[users@httpd] pipe form output as arguments to cgi program(?)

[michaeljay <em...@ufl.edu>]

Thank you, Sean. Surprised not more laughter. But supposedly 
pre-standardization it was possible to pipe the data that way. So 
let me rephrase: can we configure (for no particular immediate 
purpose) Apache to receive input as command line arguments, 
whether as one cell of the 2D array or pre-parsed into separate 
indices--mj

-----Original Message-----
From: Sean Conner [mailto:spc@conman.org]
Sent: Wednesday, December 13, 2006 3:52 PM
To: users@httpd.apache.org
Subject: Re: [users@httpd] new user / cgi program ignoring <form> 
arguments

It was thus said that the Great michaeljay once stated:
> I have httpd 2.2 / windows xp
> 
> My cgi program (ansi c) is failing to echo arguments from an 
> xhtml form. Thinking this is common. Can anyone point to common 
> configuration errors which would result in something like this. 
> The resulting web page says: "(null)"
> 
> * the form is sending correctly using the mailto: method.
> * the program works from the command line
> * the form is triggering hardwired output from the program.
> * the program will echo argv[0] (program path) in the web output 
> but not argv[1] which should be the name=value pairs

  Apache doesn't send the name/value pairs on the comment line, 
but either
through the environment variable QUERY_STRING (for a GET method) 
or as stdin
(for the POST method).  Either way, you'll need to parse the 
input
(QUERY_STRING or stdin) to break the name/value pairs apart.

  -spc (I have a library for that sort of thing---works well under 
Unix,
	and an older version *was* successfully ported to Windows, but
	that was about seven years ago ... )




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