The I've never seen a book not explain what you have just discovered. Only the books will talk about the difference between POST and GET. But if you try to transfer a lot of info to the script you will find out about url length problems.
Here is another way http://www.yourdomain.com/cgi-bin/some.cgi/home/www/private/my_info.txt the string "/home/www/private/my_info.txt" will be available as the environment variable PATH_INFO On Sat, 19 Oct 2002 13:44:30 -0400 Joel Hammer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >Thanks. That works. It is a simple solution, too. > >I have been confused because I have been looking at forms to send data >to a CGI script. The forms don't send data about the status of input >buttons, so I have been hitting my head against the old stone wall. >Maybe it is best just to abandon forms and just use links, as you have >suggested. Certainly, this will do what I need. > >I guess what I would like to have ideally is a way to use javascript to >send data to a CGI script. Incorporating your suggestion, I think the >code below actually does what I need: > ><script> >function CallCGI(data){ >window.location="script.cgi?" + data >} ></script> > >In the body of the html, ><input type="button" onclick="CallCGI('TheData')"> > >I guess this must be so obvious that neither of my two books devoted >to javascript, or my book devoted to cgi, or my book devoted to html, >bothers to mention this. All the discussions I could find emphasize >that forms and environmental variables (which I don't see how to change >from the html) are the way to talk to CGI. It makes me wonder if this >is the right way to go. But, if it works, who cares if it is the >"right" way. It is amazing how many "options" you have when you start >working with html, javascript, cgi, etc. to do anything out of the >ordinary, at least for this amateur. > >Of course, necessity being what it is, I was motivated enuf to learn >about SSI. Although that is very interesting, and I am sure I'll find >find uses for it, I don't know if it would solve the problem of >interacting with CGI scripts. But, at least I didn't waste all of my >time trying to solve this! _______________________________________________ Linux-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe/Suspend/Etc -> http://www.linux-sxs.org/mailman/listinfo/linux-users
