Re: QzhbCgiParse formats POSTed data differently to QtmhRdStin.

Hi,

How can I get QzhbCgiParse  to format (seperators, field prefixes and
field values) incoming POSTed data  in the same manner that QtmhRdStin
does?

(NOTE: I also want to take advantage of the -F and -N flags in
QzhbCgiParse  to convert incoming BINARY data from one CCSID to
another)

I can get the QzhbCgiParse -F and -N flags to work as I want to
convert incoming data from 1208 to 37, but the formatting of the data
is different...see RQSDATA and ZHBBUFFER below.


*** QtmhRdStin

I have a CGI application that works fine and dandy with QtmhRdStin
(http://publib.boulder.ibm.com/iseries/v5r2/ic2924/info/rzaie/rzaieapi_qtmhrdstin.htm)
to read data from the Apache server.

The file ccsid is 37 and the net ccsid is 819..CGI data is CGIConvMode
%%EBCDIC/MIXED%% .

If data has been sent via POST from the browser it appears A) with no
prefix on the field name and B) the separator between fields is the
ampersand, as below:

EVAL RqsData
RQSDATA =
          ....5...10...15...20...25...30...35...40...45...50...55...60
     1   'W2E_SSNID=W90NIxGoSsN1023ZYW2E140876000001CLSpKfgkCJSLKsc600'
    61   '001JKenjKnEDJuNX9GoVjCEbqIuKh6kFRvbzYnUxgQtONszJldyAar3LtTSw'
   121   'smBLpdlPc5iDH4Zf70&_F0546U=cocsi01&_F0626U=rfv697481&_KEN=Lo'
   181   'g+on                                                        '
   241   '                                                            '


*** QtmhRdStin

However if I rewrite my CGI program to use QzhbCgiParse
(http://publib.boulder.ibm.com/iseries/v5r2/ic2924/info/rzaie/rzaieapi_qzhbcgiparse.htm)...

...and change the apache server config to CGIConvMode BINARYand
convert the outgoing data to be UTF-8 (1208) (using ICONV API)...

...then when QzhbCgiParse reads the POSTed data in:

A) The field names are prefixed with 'FORM_'.
B) The seperator is a semi-colon, not an ampersand.
C) The value of the fields is enclosed in single apostrophes.

> EVAL zhbBuffer
  ZHBBUFFER =
            ....5...10...15...20...25...30...35...40...45...50...55...60
       1   'FORM_W2E_SSNID='W90NIxGoSsN1023ZYW2E140985000001CLSpKfgkCJSL'
      61   'Ksc600001JKenjKnEDJuNX9GoVjCEbqIuKh6kFRvbzYnUxgQtONszJldyAar'
     121   '3LtTSwsmBLpdlPc5iDH4Zf71'; FORM__F0546U='cocsi01'; FORM__F06'
     181   '26U='rfv697481'; FORM__KEN='Log on'                        '
     241   '                                                            '

I am invoking QzhbCgiParse as follows:

C                   eval      zhbCmd = '-POST -F 00037 -N 01208 ' +x'00'
C                   callb (e) 'QzhbCgiParse'
C                   parm                    zhbCmd
C                   parm                    zhbFormat
C                   parm                    zhbBuffer
C                   parm                    zhbBufLen
C                   parm                    zhbRspLen
C                   parm                    QUSEC



*** SUMMARY

I can use the -p flag to change the prefix...but I cannot remove the
prefix altogether.

I cannot, yet, affect the seperator or remove the enclosing apostrophes.

Any advice?

Thanks,

Simon Cockayne