Re: HTTP -- %20 at wrong time....

[Rich Duzenbury <rduz@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

I'm not familiar with the way the AS/400 web server operates, but on the 
Apache server I normally use, the ACTION is simply the name of the script 
to execute, no need for the word 'EXEC (and a space).

And %20 is the ascii equivalent of a space.  The web client typically 
encodes certain "invalid" URL characters such as spaces and some other 
special characters using the %xx method.

If you must have the space in the URL, you should probably write or find an 
RPG  HTTPDecode routine.  The last web server I wrote, I used delphi, and 
it has a decent set of encode and decode routines in the HTTPAPP module.

If you need to roll your own,  the rules are as follows:

If the character is not a % or +, no translation needs be done.
If the character is a +, make it a space.
If the character is a %, and the next character is a %, then a literal one 
character % is needed.
Otherwise, the next two digits are the hex code of the requested character 
(generally in ASCII), e.g. %20 = space.

Regards,
Rich

At 09:16 PM 1/20/01 -0500, you wrote:
>Thanks in advance for any assistance provided.
>
>I recently tried to implement "Develop an RPG CGI Application"  by Edward 
>R Smith  <from Jan 97 News/400>.
>
>Everything seems to work cool, except that the
><FORM ACTION="EXEC QSYS.LIB/CGIBIN.LIB/GBKCL.PGM" METHOD=POST>
>
>comes thru as  "EXEC%20QSYS.LIB/CGIBIN.LIB/GBKCL.PGM",
>which causes a problem. <The Page cannot be displayed>
>
>I think the space is being sent thru as the ASCII code equivalent.
>
>THe article was written for V3R7,
>and my machine is a model 270 at V4R5M0.
>
>Anyone offer some advise plse...
>
>ta,
>kmh
>
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Regards,
Rich

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