Re: Strange CGI

["Bruce Jin" <brucej@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Stone,

I have %%EBCDIC%% in my EXEC directive. The question is the CGI program is
called twice, one time it works correctly, the other time it does not.

Thanks.

Bj


-----Original Message-----
From: Stone, Brad V (TC) <bvstone@taylorcorp.com>
To: 'RPG400-L@midrange.com' <RPG400-L@midrange.com>
Date: Friday, January 14, 2000 2:29 PM
Subject: RE: Strange CGI


>Try adding %%EBCDIC%% to the end of your EXEC directive.  Like this..
>
>EXEC /cgi-bin/* /QSYS.LIB/cgilib.LIB/* %%EBCDIC%%
>
>Stop the server.  Start the server.  Try it again.
>
>Bradley V. Stone
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>
>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: Bruce Jin [mailto:brucej@mrc-productivity.com]
>> Sent: Friday, January 14, 2000 12:58 PM
>> To: RPG400-L@midrange.com
>> Subject: Strange CGI
>>
>>
>>
>> Can anyone tell why the following is happening?
>>
>> I have a CGI program called CGIPGM0. When I enter
>> /cgi-bin/CGIPGM0 in a
>> browser, it outputs a page with a form (method="POST") that
>> ask for input.
>> Let us call this page as Page0. I enter 'AAAAAAAAAA' into
>> input field #1 and
>> '999999.99' into input field #2. Then I click submit, CGIPGM1
>> is called to
>> process the input from Page0. I put CGIPGM1 in debug mode and
>> I can see that
>> the input string is:
>>
>> INPUT01=AAAAAAAAAA&INPUT02=999999099
>>
>>
>> Now, I save the html source code of  Page0 (generated by
>> CGIPGM0) to IFS
>> (also tried save to a QSYS source member).  I enter its URL
>> in a browser. I
>> get EXACTLY the same page, Page0. I fill the input.
>> I click submit, the same CGIPGM1 is called (we are still in
>> the same debug
>> session).  BUT I can see that the input string is like this:
>>
>> INPUT01NAAA-=AAAAAAAAAA%D5AAA-%18%2C3%98&INPUT02NAAA-=
>> 999999%D5AAA-AAA-%18%2C3%98&
>>
>> API QtmhCvtDB errors out because only INPUT01 and INPUT02 are
>> defined in the
>> mapping database file used by this API. However the input
>> string says the
>> input field names are INPUT01NAAA- and INPUT02NAAA-!
>>
>> Any idea?
>>
>>
>> Bj
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
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