Re: CONTENT_LENGTH = 0?

[Mike <koldark@xxxxxxxxx>]

It appears like the problem is Poster. It doesn't seem to send the POST data
to the program. Can anyone suggest a different program or Firefox extension
that can be used for testing programs like this? Free is preferred.

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On Wed, Dec 23, 2009 at 11:35 AM, Mike <koldark@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> I have been using the below listed article [1] to figure out how to pass
> parameters to my RPG-CGI program. I have a problem getting the
> CONTENT_LENGTH. It always seems to return 0. We are on V5R4.
>
> [1] http://systeminetwork.com/node/26490
>
>      P*--------------------------------------------------
>      P* Procedure name: CgiParseInz
>      P* Purpose: http://systeminetwork.com/node/26490
>      P* Returns:
>      P*--------------------------------------------------
>      P CgiParseInz     B                   EXPORT
>      D CgiParseInz     PI            10I 0
>
>      D cgiBuffer       S           4096A
>      D reqMethod       S             10A
>      D nContentLen     S             10I 0
>      D nBytesRead      S             10I 0
>      D api_error       S             64A   Inz(*ALLX'00')
>       /free
>
>        reqMethod = %str(getenv('REQUEST_METHOD'));
>        nContentLen = %int(%str(getenv('CONTENT_LENGTH')));
>
>        if (reqMethod = 'POST' and nContentLen  > 0);
>        //if (reqMethod = 'POST');
>          cgiParse('-i ':'CGII0100': cgiBuffer: %size(cgiBuffer) :
>                   nBytesRead : api_error);
>          if (nBytesRead  > 0);
>            putenv(%subst(cgiBuffer:1:nBytesRead)); // Set QRY_STR
>            putenv('REQUEST_METHOD=GET');  // Override method
>          endif;
>
>        endif;
>        return nBytesRead;
>       /end-free
>      P CgiParseInz     E
>
> I am claiming stupid here so I am not sure what I maybe doing wrong. I am
> using Poster (a Mozilla plugin)(http://code.google.com/p/poster-extension/)
> to test POST to this program.
>
> --
> Mike Wills
> http://mikewills.info
> P: (507) 933-0880 | Skype: koldark