Re: HTTP server beginners questions

Hi Dave

Welcome to the wonderful world of WWW - this DOES set the library list for what is called - I Googled for the environment variable and went to this 1st hit -

https://www.ibm.com/support/pages/cgi-frequently-asked-questions-0

There you can find the question, "How can I change the library list for my CGI program?", which tells us that "The listed libraries replace the libraries in the user part of the library list. When the CGI program has finished processing, these libraries will be removed from the library list and the library list will be restored to what it was before the CGI program ran."

Pretty cool - you get to change to exactly what is needed in the HTTP server job, just for anything called through this setup.

HTH
Vern

On 8/24/2021 1:50 AM, Dave wrote:

Hello,

I have a rather feeble level in this subject so please go easy on me.
A server instance has already been set up for me (see below), which
obviously will need modifying.

What is the meaning of setenv QIBM_CGI_LIBRARY_LIST "QTEMP;CGILIB;YAJL" ?
Surely this has nothing to do with the library list used by the program
that will run on the i?

How do I know what method (GET or POST) has been used?

Thanks!


<Directory /qsys.lib/cgilib.lib>
AddDefaultCharset UTF-8
Order Allow,Deny
Allow From all
setenv QIBM_CGI_LIBRARY_LIST "QTEMP;CGILIB;YAJL"
</Directory>



# Alias for tests
ScriptAliasMatch /myURL(.*) /qsys.lib/ CGILIB.lib/$1.pgm

# Exemple alias for a specified program :
# ScriptAlias /myURL/test /qsys.lib/ CGILIB.lib/TEST_3.pgm