Library: Net, CGI programming support (OMCGI) Include: omcgi.xin

Declaration

  define function cgiGetQuery
    into modifiable stream query-shelf

Argument definitions

query-shelf

A stream shelf of variable size.

The cgiGetQuery function retrieves data sent to your program using either the GET or POST method, decodes the data, and puts the decoded data on a keyed stream shelf of name/value pairs. The key of the shelf item is the name of the data field, and the shelf item's value is the value of that data field. Declare the shelf you want the query-string values placed on as variable. For example:

     declare #process-input has unbuffered
     declare #process-output has binary-mode

     include "omcgi.xin"

     process
        local stream input-data variable

        cgiGetQuery into input-data

For your CGI program to retrieve the input data sent by the web server, you must declare #process-input as unbuffered. If you do not, on some systems your CGI program will hang.

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