It was thus said that the Great michaeljay once stated: > I have httpd 2.2 / windows xp > > My cgi program (ansi c) is failing to echo arguments from an xhtml > form. Thinking this is common. Can anyone point to common > configuration errors which would result in something like this. > The resulting web page says: "(null)" > > * the form is sending correctly using the mailto: method. > * the program works from the command line > * the form is triggering hardwired output from the program. > * the program will echo argv[0] (program path) in the web output > but not argv[1] which should be the name=value pairs Apache doesn't send the name/value pairs on the comment line, but either through the environment variable QUERY_STRING (for a GET method) or as stdin (for the POST method). Either way, you'll need to parse the input (QUERY_STRING or stdin) to break the name/value pairs apart. -spc (I have a library for that sort of thing---works well under Unix, and an older version *was* successfully ported to Windows, but that was about seven years ago ... ) --------------------------------------------------------------------- The official User-To-User support forum of the Apache HTTP Server Project. See <URL:http://httpd.apache.org/userslist.html> for more info. To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscribe@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx " from the digest: users-digest-unsubscribe@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx For additional commands, e-mail: users-help@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
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