Re: Cobol CGI

[Wayne McAlpine <wayne.mcalpine@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Frederic, the program is called by specifying cgibin in the url.  Here's 
an example from one of our pages:

http://www.sos.louisiana.gov/cgibin/?rqstyp=CRPBC&rqsdta=mm

In the Apache configuration file, cgibin is mapped to the actual 
program, which is called by the HTTP server job.


antilog@xxxxxxx wrote:
> Hello,
>
> Is there somewhere a short example for a Cobol CGI?
> All the links I find are in RPG, or are unavailable on the Web.
>
> Basically, what I want to do is:
> - receive an HTTP POST
> - extract the informations in the data
> - call another program to have an answer (looks in the database)
> - reply to the caller.
>
> It could perhaps be very simple, but I don't know how to start...
> I don't even imagine how the program could be called?
>
> TIA,
>
> Frederic