Re: getting parms from URL using GET

["Jim Franz" <jfranz@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

The ibm site www.easy400.ibm.it has freeware to download that does this
and so much more.If you've never been there, take the overview, but
in the deliverables they describe all the source, programs, procedures,
everything you get (for free) to do rpgle/cgi. Even if you've got your
own thing going, you can integrate it into your code. Very well documented.
Everything you need for building web sites on a 400.
jim


----- Original Message -----
From: "James David Rich" <james@eaerich.com>
To: <rpg400-l@midrange.com>
Sent: Thursday, April 19, 2001 7:23 PM
Subject: getting parms from URL using GET


> I need to get the parameters from a URL into an rpg IV program.  The
> program is called using the http GET method.  The URL looks something like
> this:
>
> http://my.host.com/cgi-bin/myprogram.pgm?parm1=value1&parm2=value2
>
> I want to put the data into a data structure that looks something like
> this:
>
> name (varying length)
> value (varying length)
>
> and have an occurrence for each parm,value pair.  Ideally this would be in
> a subprocedure (let's call it InitCgiGet) which would populate a data
> structure defined in my main rpg program.  The main rpg program would pass
> the data structure as a pointer, something like this:
>
> [main rpg program]
>
> D entries DS BASED(pointer)
> D  name varying
> D  value varying
>
> C eval entries = InitCgiGet(pointer)
>
> [subprocedure InitCgiGet]
> (gets environment variables to populate entries data structure)
> C return
>
> Anyone know how to do this?  My examples and explanation my not be clear,
> let me know if this doesn't make sense.
>
> James Rich
> james@eaerich.com
>
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