get information from POST to a cgi ksh (not pearl)

CHARTPAPER · Dec 21, 2010

I have a HTML form that I am changing from GET to POST. I cannot seem to get the information passed from the form into a plain cgi ksh script. If I replace the ksh script with a pearl script I am able to get the information, so I know my form is working correctly. I have not been able to figure out how to get the information from STDIN when called by cgi from a html form using ksh. I do not want to rewrite a very involved ksh script into a pearl script. What am I missing, "while read somevariable" does not get the information into my ksh script. As you can tell I am not a HTML or cgi person. I was able to get the GET form to work about five years ago and now need to change this form into a POST form.

feherke · Dec 22, 2010

Hi

CHARTPAPER said:
What am I missing, "while read somevariable" does not get the information into my ksh script.

Then please post that part of your code, so we can suggest correction.

Anyway, in meantime, a man page to read : [tt]cat[/tt].

CHARTPAPER said:
As you can tell I am not a HTML or cgi person.

Then I strongly suggest to not write CGI scripts in such low level language, as shell script. Use a language which has a dedicated module for CGI specific data handling.

Feherke.

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get information from POST to a cgi ksh (not pearl)

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