Re: Pass Parameters from HTML doc to RPG CGI program?

Brad,

John's answer is correct, but I've found a sometimes gotcha. 

For long alpha parms, (I'm not sure what the threshold is) if you
don't "fill" each byte of the parameters, the first part of the next
parm sometimes gets placed at the end of the parm before it.  The
parms always start with the right data, it's just that sometimes it
ends with stuff.

Rick

John Dorn wrote:
> 
> Brad,
> 
> On a GET CGI request a Web server uses the following logic for
> handling the query string (stuff after the question mark) data:
> If there is an equal in the query string:
> a)Yes: (e.g., http://host/cgipgm?name=value)
>        Data is not passed as parameters to the program and the
>        program must retrieve the QUERY_STRING environment variable
>        to receive the data.
> a)No:  (e.g., http://host/cgipgm?parm1+parm2)
>        Data is passed as parameters to the CGI program, where spaces
>        (pluses) are used to separate parameters.  In order to pass
>        an equal you must escape it (i.e., %3d).
> 
> Hope this helps,
> John Dorn
> I/NET, Inc.
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