[HECnet] OT: CGI parameters in CSWS?

Mon Oct 5 18:53:17 PDT 2009

Sampsa,

I would take a look at logicals.   They may actually be using them instead.   Most of my scripts use logicals so that it doesn't matter where the script is run from.

-Steve

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Sent: Monday, October 05, 2009 12:17
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Subject: [HECnet] OT: CGI parameters in CSWS?

Sorry about the less-than-entirely-relevant question, feel free to ignore, but I am confused, yet again.

I'm trying to write a quick script to search a file and output the results, in HTML, over HTTP, so I've decided to use a small DCL script with the CSWS web server on OpenVMS 8.3. I can't figure out where CSWS sticks the CGI parameters however, the book says they're meant to be defined as symbols, but this is what my script sees:

SHOW SYMBOL/LOCAL *
  P1 = ""
  P2 = ""
  P3 = ""
  P4 = ""
  P5 = ""
  P6 = ""
  P7 = ""
  P8 = ""
SHOW SYMBOL/GLOBAL *
  $FACILITY == "%X00000001"
  $IDENT == "%X00000000"
  $RESTART == "FALSE"
  $SEVERITY == "1"
  $STATUS == "%X00010001"
  APACHE$DCL_BIN == "$ APACHE$COMMON:[000000]APACHE$DCL_BIN.EXE"
  APACHE$DCL_CMD == "@APACHE$COMMON:[CGI-BIN.FIDONODES]FINDNODE.COM"
  APACHE$DCL_ENV == "$ APACHE$COMMON:[000000]APACHE$DCL_ENV.EXE"
  APACHE$DCL_RUN == "$ APACHE$COMMON:[000000]APACHE$DCL_RUN.EXE"
  APACHE$FLIP_CCL == "$ APACHE$COMMON:[000000]APACHE$SET_CCL.EXE"
  APACHE$SET_CCL == "$ APACHE$COMMON:[000000]APACHE$SET_CCL.EXE"
  HTTPD == "$ APACHE$COMMON:[000000]APACHE$HTTPD.EXE"
  PHP == "$ PHP_ROOT:[BIN]PHP.EXE"
  SAY == "WRITE SYS$OUTPUT"

Where did QUERYSTRING etc go?  

Here's the script ( http://rhesus.sampsa.com/cgi-bin/fidonodes/findnode.com?q=foo ) :

$ write sys$output "content-type: text/html"
$ write sys$output ""
$ write sys$output "<html><hr /><pre>"
$ WRITE SYS$OUTPUT "SHOW SYMBOL/LOCAL *"
$ show symbol/local *
$ WRITE SYS$OUTPUT "SHOW SYMBOL/GLOBAL *"
$ show symbol/global *