RE: Simple HTML program sending parms to an AS400 pgm

Peter,
There could be a few things causing this -
the first thing I notice in your html is that you
do not name the input field.
that line should be more like this:

Order Number: <input type="text" name="ORDERNUM">

(ordernum is the name in your receiving rpg/cgi program)

After that, if that does not take care of it,
do you have a file set up for the reading in, or
are you paraphrasing the data stream,
also your config must be off, or your understanding
is off as the form action does not need to be
so detailed.  (just the /cgi-rpg/fd003r would suffice,
and as you have a question mark after the "call" it appears
you are combining methods for sending data to your program;
I do not know if you can or not, but I never do, I go with
one method or the other for the web page at hand.
The post does not require the ?, the get method does.
it depends on how your rpg is coded and which api you are using.


Do you have the CGIDEV2 library on, some examples, but as for
myself - Brad Stone's book was more clearly written -

Another thing I did "a lot of" was to find pages I liked, and
looked at the html source to see "how'd they do that", and then
implemented that html into my cgi code.

HTH
Mark

-----Original Message-----
From: web400-admin@midrange.com [mailto:web400-admin@midrange.com]On
Behalf Of Peter_Vidal@pall.com
Sent: Tuesday, June 04, 2002 1:58 PM
To: web400@midrange.com
Subject: [WEB400] Simple HTML program sending parms to an AS400 pgm


Hi guys!

I have a small amount of code and what I want is to send an order number to
a
CGI-RPG program on the AS400 like:

<FORM action="http://pacnet/cgi-rpg/fd003r?"; method="post">
<P>
Order Number: <INPUT type="text"><BR>
<INPUT type="submit" value="Send"> <INPUT type="reset">
</P>
</FORM>

The program runs but the parameter (order number) that the program receives
is a
different one (garbage).  What I'm missing?

Regards,

PALL Corporation
Peter Vidal
Senior System Analyst

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