Re: Cobol CGI

["Patrick Archibald" <patrick.archibald@xxxxxxxxx>]

Frederic

Two important lines in your httpd.conf file to enable CGI are:

Options +ExecCGI

ScriptAlias /somename/somename-cgi-bin/ /qsys.lib/somelib.lib/

Thanx, PLA



On 1/30/07, Wayne McAlpine <wayne.mcalpine@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> 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
> >
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