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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting HTML form to cgi help Post 84228 by 98_1LE on Thursday 22nd of September 2005 11:07:24 PM
Old 09-23-2005
HTML form to cgi help
I wrote a script to automate user account verification against peoplesoft. Now I want to make it available to my peers via the web. It is running on Solaris.

I have the form written, but am not sure how to make it work. I think the form should call a perl cgi when submitted. The cgi should call my shell script in the background (cgi-bin/myscript.cgi $email $system &), and present a "task submitted" page. I can write the task sumitted page cgi.

The problem is I am not sure how to manipulate the data posted into the form and pass it to the script. There are three fields. Two need to be passed to the shell script called from the cgi as $1 (email) and $2 (system) variables. The third field (usernames) needs to be written to a text file.

The form can be seen at: http://chuckb.1le.net/tmp/form_test.htm

Any help would be appreciated.
 

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cgi_redirect

cgi_redirect(3) 						     cgi/cgi.h							   cgi_redirect(3)

NAME

       cgi_redirect  - send an HTTP 302 redirect response

SYNOPSIS

       #include <cgi/cgi.h>

       void cgi_redirect (CGI *cgi, const char *fmt, ...)
			  ATTRIBUTE_PRINTF(2,3);

ARGUMENTS

       cgi - cgi struct
       fmt - printf style format with args

DESCRIPTION

       cgi_redirect will redirect the user to another page on your site.  This version takes only the path portion of the URL.	As with all printf
       style commands, you should not call this with arbitrary input that may contain % characters, if you are forwarding something directly,  use
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RETURN VALUE

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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),
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