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Operating Systems Solaris Triggering UNIX command from Web Browser Post 302404675 by hergp on Wednesday 17th of March 2010 03:14:24 AM
Old 03-17-2010
OK, here is a working example:

First you need a html page with form(s), lets call it test.html and you put it into the document root of the server:
Code:
<html><head><title>Test Form</title></head>
<body>
  <form action="/cgi-bin/test.cgi" method="get">
    input for GET: <input name="get_input">
    <input type=submit value="Submit via GET">
  </form>
  <form action="/cgi-bin/test.cgi" method="post">
    input for POST: <input name="post_input">
    <input type=submit value="Submit via POST">
  </form>
  </body>
</html>

Next you need a cgi-script. I choose a shellscript using the kornshell. You save it as "test.cgi" into the cgi-bin directory of your webserver.
Code:
#!/bin/ksh
print "Content-type: text/plain\r\n\r"
print "my query string from (GET) is \"$QUERY_STRING\""
print "\nmy stdin (from POST) is"
cat

When you open the test.html page in your browser, you can enter a string into one of the two input fields and press the submit button adjacent to it.

When you press the "Submit via GET" button, you effectively call /cgi-bin/test.cgi?get_input=your_input_string and the browser shows this output:
Code:
my query string from (GET) is "get_input=your_input_string"
my stdin (from POST) is

When you press the "Submit via POST" button, your input is sent to the stdin of the cgi-script.
Code:
my query string from (GET) is ""
my stdin (from POST) is
post_input=your_input_string

What's left for you to do is: receive the actual user's input either via GET or POST and then process the input according to your needs.

I hope, this helps to understand what's going on.

Last edited by hergp; 03-17-2010 at 04:21 AM..
 

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cgi_register_parse_cb(3)					     cgi/cgi.h						  cgi_register_parse_cb(3)

NAME
cgi_register_parse_cb - Register a parse callback SYNOPSIS
#include <cgi/cgi.h> NEOERR *cgi_register_parse_cb(CGI *cgi, const char *method, const char *ctype, void *rock, CGI_PARSE_CB parse_cb); ARGUMENTS
cgi - a CGI struct method - the HTTP method you want to handle, or * for all ctype - the HTTP Content-Type you want to handle, or * for all rock - opaque data that we'll pass to your call back DESCRIPTION
The ClearSilver CGI Kit has built-in functionality to handle the following methods: GET -> doesn't have any data except query string, which is processed for all methods POST w/ application/x-www-form-urlencoded POST w/ multipart/form-data processed as RFC2388 data into files and HDF (see cgi_filehandle()) PUT (any type) The entire data chunk is stored as a file, with meta data in HDF (similar to single files in RFC2388). The data is accessible via cgi_filehandle with NULL for name. To handle other methods/content types, you have to register your own parse function. This isn't necessary if you aren't expecting any data, and technically HTTP only allows data on PUT/POST requests (and presumably user defined methods). In particular, if you want to implement XML-RPC or SOAP, you'll have to register a callback here to grab the XML data chunk. Usually you'll want to register POST w/ application/xml or POST w/ text/xml (you either need to register both or reg- ister POST w/ * and check the ctype yourself, remember to nerr_raise(CGIParseNotHandled) if you aren't handling the POST). In general, your callback should: Find out how much data is available: l = hdf_get_value (cgi->hdf, "CGI.ContentLength", NULL); len = atoi(l); And read/handle all of the data using cgiwrap_read. See the builtin handlers for how this is done. Note that cgiwrap_read is not guarunteed to return all of the data you request (just like fread(3)) since it might be reading of a socket. Sorry. You should be careful when read- ing the data to watch for short reads (ie, end of file) and cases where the client sends you data ad infinitum. RETURN VALUE
None SEE ALSO
cgi_debug_init(3), cgi_parse(3), cgi_destroy(3), cgi_js_escape(3), cgi_html_escape_strfunc(3), cgi_register_strfuncs(3), cgi_output(3), parse_rfc2388(3), cgi_url_validate(3), open_upload(3), cgi_cs_init(3), cgi_url_escape_more(3), cgi_html_strip_strfunc(3), cgi_neo_error(3), cgi_redirect(3), cgi_filehandle(3), cgi_register_parse_cb(3), cgi_url_escape(3), cgi_init(3), cgi_redirect_uri(3), cgi_cookie_clear(3), cgi_url_unescape(3), cgi_vredirect(3), cgi_display(3), cgi_html_ws_strip(3), cgi_error(3), cgi_cookie_set(3), cgi_text_html_strfunc(3), cgi_cookie_authority ClearSilver 12 July 2007 cgi_register_parse_cb(3)
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