RE: [WEB400] HTML field value size limit

[Erik Mitsch <baron@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

> So where does the file end up when it is sent? Is there a configuration
> setting for this, and does the file's ID or name get sent to the CGI
> program?

That's actually up to your CGI script.  Brad has it right - it's shipping
all of the data, however it is encoded.  It's up to your CGI program to
dissect it and make sure everything gets to the right place.  If you were
uploading a text file that happens to be the source for a Java program, for
example, your CGI would have to create the source file on the 400 and plant
all that data in there.  What you do with it from there is up to you and
your needs.

When the form submission (including the file) actually comes across to your
CGI, it's going to look kind of like this:

---------------------------------6099238414674
Content-Disposition: form-data; name="the_file"; filename="clients.xml"

[The source of the file, however it may be encoded]
---------------------------------6099238414674--

Your CGI will have to be able to find this object in the submission by name
("the_file"), then extract the filename (creating a new file on the server
if you want), and then plant the source of the file into that new file.

I have absolutely no idea how to do this in RPG, but I can tell you that in
Perl/CGI, it's not too bad of a process overall because Perl was built to do
this kind of thing.  If Brad says it's tricky in RPG, I believe him. :)

- Erik
http://www.baron-inc.net