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  3. January 2000

Strange CGI, some progress

Stone,

I was using IE5 for all the experiment.
Today I used Netscape 4.7 and everything works!

1) The input string from the search page (generated by CGIPGM0) is presented
to HTTP server correctly (as is in IE5)

2) The input string from the search page (a html file saved from  CGIPGM0
output)  is olso presented to HTTP server correctly! (not as is in IE5)

I then started IE5 again and the 2) above does not work as I described
before.

There is something (maybe a bug) in IE5 that I don't understand.


Bj




-----Original Message-----
From: Bruce Jin <brucej@mrc-productivity.com>
To: RPG400-L@midrange.com <RPG400-L@midrange.com>
Date: Friday, January 14, 2000 6:03 PM
Subject: Re: Strange CGI


>Stone:
>
>When CGIPGM0 generates the page, I view the source code and it looks OK:
><INPUT  size=15  type="text" name="INPUT01"> etc..
>
>Then I click submit, the value of INPUT01 is presented to the server
>correctly as I described earlier.
>
>Then I saved this source code to IFS and display the same page using this
>saved html instead of using CGIPGM0.
>Then I click submit, the value of INPUT01 is presented to the server
>incorrectly as I described earlier. The code page of this html file is 437.
>
>I also tried to save the source code to a source file member and evoke the
>search page using this source. The value of INPUT01 is presented to the
>server incorrectly too. I am not sure if code page comes into play in this
>situation.
>
>By the way, I am using a service program (downloaded from
>easy400.ibm.it.com) to get input string. In all situations, the input parms
>of the procedure are all the same. But the output is different based on if
>the search page is generated by CGIPGM0 or the search is a html file.
>
>
>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 3:45 PM
>Subject: RE: Strange CGI
>
>
>>Look at the source for the HTML that is generated when you save CGIPGM0.
>>What are the field names?  You're going to post more info here...
>>
>>Bradley V. Stone
>>e-RPG! - www.bvstools.com/erpg.html
>>BVS/Tools - www.bvstools.com
>>Netshare400 - www.netshare400.com
>>
>>
>>
>>> -----Original Message-----
>>> From: Bruce Jin [mailto:brucej@mrc-productivity.com]
>>> Sent: Friday, January 14, 2000 2:39 PM
>>> To: RPG400-L@midrange.com
>>> Subject: Re: Strange CGI
>>>
>>>
>>> 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
>>> >e-RPG! - www.bvstools.com/erpg.html
>>> >BVS/Tools - www.bvstools.com
>>> >Netshare400 - www.netshare400.com
>>> >
>>> >
>>> >
>>> >> -----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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