On Monday 21 August 2006 15:37, Ian P Blackburn wrote: > Hi > > The html form tag is : > > <FORM METHOD="POST" ACTION="/cgi-bin/bom_report.ksh"> > > The korn shell script bom_report.ksh reads in the parameters from stdin > using the unix function "read" which reads input from standard input > and then assigns it to a variable, > > read Arg1
That's line-oriented, and therefore not compatible with the CGI spec. It may work with particular CGI implementations, but only by coincidence. Your script cannot assume it'll get an EOF, let alone lineends. -- Nick Kew --------------------------------------------------------------------- The official User-To-User support forum of the Apache HTTP Server Project. See <URL:http://httpd.apache.org/userslist.html> for more info. To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] " from the digest: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
