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Re: LYNX-DEV Implementing CGI scripts with Lynx 2.6
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Tom Zerucha |
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Re: LYNX-DEV Implementing CGI scripts with Lynx 2.6 |
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Sat, 22 Feb 1997 11:55:28 -0500 (EST) |
On Fri, 21 Feb 1997, Keith Williamson wrote:
> When a lynxcgi link is used as the action of a form with method=post,
> where does the lynx send the value of the form variables?
Lynx has always appended the post data after the header it sends from what
I have seen.
Since you have not posted any sample forms (change the NAME=s if it is
necessary to protect the innocent), nor any -trace output, it is hard to
tell if Lynx has a problem, or if the HTML is doing something silly to
produce something Lynx considers a blank form.
> I'm trying to get info from the form into a shell script, cgiparse hangs
> every time, as if there is no data to read from stdin...
Then cgiparse has a problem - it should not hang. Did you happen to
notice if there was a content-length or type in the header? Any error log
output? How do you know that cgiparse is hanging?
> Am I doing something wrong or is my copy of cgiparse not working?
It is very hard to tell since I don't even know what OS you are using,
which version, and which version of cgiparse.
> Do I even need the cgiparse program? I've had no luck looking on the internet
> for documentation that explains how this should work. This list is my best
> bet.
I have no idea either. I use Apache under Linux and it seems to
understand what I throw at it. You obviously have an http server of some
kind. You may want to start with some sample scripts that came with
whatever you have, or buy a CGI programming book of some kind (preferably
one written with your server in mind).
> Could someone please help...anyone.
Follow up with a few more details as I have suggested. It is very hard to
diagnose stomach irritation from peritonitis with just "my belly aches",
although I will admit I am often guilty of doing the same.
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