home *** CD-ROM | disk | FTP | other *** search
- Path: nntp.hut.fi!usenet
- From: oahvenla@hyppynaru.cs.hut.fi (Osma Ahvenlampi)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.networking,comp.sys.amiga.programmer
- Subject: Re: CGI-programming for AWS ?
- Date: 16 Mar 1996 19:17:50 +0200
- Organization: What, me, organised?
- Sender: oahvenla@hyppynaru.cs.hut.fi
- Distribution: inet
- Message-ID: <jdjwx4lkldt.fsf@hyppynaru.cs.hut.fi>
- References: <1686.6645T919T930@vip.cybercity.dk>
- NNTP-Posting-Host: hyppynaru.cs.hut.fi
- Mime-Version: 1.0
- Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII
- In-reply-to: bipsen@vip.cybercity.dk's message of 12 Mar 1996 14:16:20 GMT
- X-Newsreader: Gnus v5.1
-
- In article <1686.6645T919T930@vip.cybercity.dk> bipsen@vip.cybercity.dk (Brian Ipsen) writes:
- > I wonder what is happening, when the users clicks on "submit" - I know,
- >that the form is handled by the program in /cgi-bin/epdcontest , but
- >how does this program get the input from the browser and so on ???
-
- First of all, if you're interested, the documentation is available by
- reading the HTTP specification and your WWW server docs.
-
- In case of METHOD=POST, the information is submitted to the server by
- the folling data-stream:
-
- --
- POST url HTTP/1.0
- X-Your-Headers: whatever
-
- field1=content?field2=two+words?field3=foo
- --
-
- As opposed to METHOD=GET:
-
- --
- GET url?field1=content?field2=two+words?field3=foo HTTP/1.0
- X-Your-Headers: whatever
-
- --
-
- On the server side, the difference usually is that METHOD=GET receives
- the input in the form of one command line argument, whereas
- METHOD=POST reads it from standard input, and thus is not vulnerable
- to command line length restrictions or possible command line parsing
- by the OS or shell used.
-
- --
- A friend in need is a pest indeed.
- | "Osma Ahvenlampi" <mailto:oa@iki.fi> <http://www.iki.fi/oa/> |
- | Amiga&BeBox&ClassAct&Voodoo&ARTech cool stuff: I-Net225&AWeb |
- --
-