cgi problem

[krappleby025]

hey all, im running cgi on a windows system, and the script works fine.. however the script does not work properly... i am trying to make a counter work, and you can view the counter on the page...

http://www.leotas-iris.com

however when the script runs it does not work.. the cgi file is

http://www.leotas-iris.com/cgi-bin/livecntr.cgi

however it is supposed to be pulled with the extensions
?1+7+main

now, the first address works, and displays the number, but if you add the extensions to the end it does not work comes up with an error placing the script name as

livecntr.cgi1
taking out the ? can anyone tell me what is wrong

thanks

 

[goBoating]

It appears that your cgi application can not figure out where your program name ends and the passed vars start.

Most cgi applications expect to get any arguments in the form of "parameter_name=parameter_value" like this:

livecnt.cgi?var1=value1

If you want to pass more than one parameter to the cgi code, separate them with an ampersand...

livecnt.cgi?var1=value1&var2=value2&var3=value3

Note that the url most be encoded to avoid spaces and such. If there was a space in value2 like, "spaces in value 2", it might look like...

livecnt.cgi?var1=value1&var2=spaces%20in%20value2&var3=value3

'hope this helps

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