>From what I understand, you should try and declare your $username, $password before
>you try and pass it in the query string. Also, I don't see where in the script you
>compare it against anything. Of course I may be thinking dB terms.
Mark Bergeron
-----Original Message-----
From: "Abel Lucano"<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: Wed Jun 13 15:34:53 PDT 2001
Subject: calling a external cgi from a form passing parameters
>
>Hi everyone,
>
>why this doesn't pass $username and $password to checkuser.cgi script??
>when the form is filled out I only see
>
>http://external-server/cgi-bin/checkuser.cgi?user=$usuario&pass=$contrasena
>
>and $usuario it's not replaced by param('username'), etc
>
>Any advice will be very appreciated,
>
>
>
>#!/usr/bin/perl
>
>use CGI;
>use CGI::Carp 'fatalsToBrowser';
>
>$q = new CGI;
>print $q->header,
> $q->start_html({bgcolor=>"white"}, 'Check users'),
> $q->h1('Check users'),
> $q->br,
>$q->start_form(-action=>'http://external-server/cgi-bin/checkuser.cgi?user=$usuario&pass=$contrasena'),
> $q->h3('type user name'),
> $q->textfield(-name=>'username', -size=>20),
> $q->p(),
> $q->h3('type user password'),
> $q->password_field(-name=>'passwd', -size=>20),
> $usuario = $q->param('username'),
> $contrasena = $q->param('passwd'),
> $q->p(),
> $q->submit(-name=>'Check'),
> $q->end_form, $q->hr,
> $q->end_html;
>
>
>
>Abel Lucano
>Decode SA
>email: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>http://www.decode.com.ar
>
>
>
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