Re: QzhbCgiParse formats POSTed data differently to QtmhRdStin.

["Simon Cockayne" <simon.cockayne@xxxxxxxxx>]

> Hi,
>
> How can I get QzhbCgiParse  to format (seperators, field prefixes and
> field values) incoming POSTed data  in the same manner that QtmhRdStin
> does?
>
> (NOTE: I also want to take advantage of the -F and -N flags in
> QzhbCgiParse  to convert incoming BINARY data from one CCSID to
> another)
>
> I can get the QzhbCgiParse -F and -N flags to work as I want to
> convert incoming data from 1208 to 37, but the formatting of the data
> is different...see RQSDATA and ZHBBUFFER below.
>
>
> *** QtmhRdStin
>
> I have a CGI application that works fine and dandy with QtmhRdStin
> (http://publib.boulder.ibm.com/iseries/v5r2/ic2924/info/rzaie/rzaieapi_qtmhrdstin.htm)
> to read data from the Apache server.
>
> The file ccsid is 37 and the net ccsid is 819..CGI data is CGIConvMode
> %%EBCDIC/MIXED%% .
>
> If data has been sent via POST from the browser it appears A) with no
> prefix on the field name and B) the separator between fields is the
> ampersand, as below:
>
> EVAL RqsData
> RQSDATA =
>           ....5...10...15...20...25...30...35...40...45...50...55...60
>      1   'W2E_SSNID=W90NIxGoSsN1023ZYW2E140876000001CLSpKfgkCJSLKsc600'
>     61   '001JKenjKnEDJuNX9GoVjCEbqIuKh6kFRvbzYnUxgQtONszJldyAar3LtTSw'
>    121   'smBLpdlPc5iDH4Zf70&_F0546U=cocsi01&_F0626U=rfv697481&_KEN=Lo'
>    181   'g+on                                                        '
>    241   '                                                            '
>
>
> *** QtmhRdStin
>
> However if I rewrite my CGI program to use QzhbCgiParse
> (http://publib.boulder.ibm.com/iseries/v5r2/ic2924/info/rzaie/rzaieapi_qzhbcgiparse.htm)...
>
> ...and change the apache server config to CGIConvMode BINARYand
> convert the outgoing data to be UTF-8 (1208) (using ICONV API)...
>
> ...then when QzhbCgiParse reads the POSTed data in:
>
> A) The field names are prefixed with 'FORM_'.
> B) The seperator is a semi-colon, not an ampersand.
> C) The value of the fields is enclosed in single apostrophes.
>
> > EVAL zhbBuffer
>   ZHBBUFFER =
>             ....5...10...15...20...25...30...35...40...45...50...55...60
>        1   'FORM_W2E_SSNID='W90NIxGoSsN1023ZYW2E140985000001CLSpKfgkCJSL'
>       61   'Ksc600001JKenjKnEDJuNX9GoVjCEbqIuKh6kFRvbzYnUxgQtONszJldyAar'
>      121   '3LtTSwsmBLpdlPc5iDH4Zf71'; FORM__F0546U='cocsi01'; FORM__F06'
>      181   '26U='rfv697481'; FORM__KEN='Log on'                        '
>      241   '                                                            '
>
> I am invoking QzhbCgiParse as follows:
>
> C                   eval      zhbCmd = '-POST -F 00037 -N 01208 ' +x'00'
> C                   callb (e) 'QzhbCgiParse'
> C                   parm                    zhbCmd
> C                   parm                    zhbFormat
> C                   parm                    zhbBuffer
> C                   parm                    zhbBufLen
> C                   parm                    zhbRspLen
> C                   parm                    QUSEC
>
>
>
> *** SUMMARY
>
> I can use the -p flag to change the prefix...but I cannot remove the
> prefix altogether.
>
> I cannot, yet, affect the seperator or remove the enclosing apostrophes.
>
> Any advice?
>
> Thanks,
>
> Simon Cockayne