this makes sense, thanks.
joe
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On Fri, 16 Apr 1999, Gilles Detillieux wrote:
> According to Joseph Cheek:
> > btw, i had no idea that htsearch could be called from the command line with
> > the $QUERY_STRING as arguments... is this documented? i knew from trial and
> > error that htsearch could be called from the command line, but could never
> > figure out its command-line arguments beyond the spartan help it gave.
>
> No, that's not quite right. When a CGI script is called with the GET
> method, the http server will partially parse the query string and pass it
> as one or more command line arguments to the script. This is to allow
> simple scripts to be written that just process their arguments, instead
> of doing the decoding of the query string. I think this was a logical
> extension of the old <ISINDEX> support.
>
> However, htsearch does not get its input variables from the command line
> arguments. If the environment variable REQUEST_METHOD is set to GET, it
> will get the query string from the environment variable QUERY_STRING.
> If REQUEST_METHOD is not set, it goes into query mode, and prompts the
> user for certain values. Otherwise, it assumes the POST method, gets the
> input size from the CONTENT_LENGTH env. variable, and reads that many
> bytes from the standard input (the socket from the HTTP connection).
>
> The only reason I suggested passing on command line arguments in the
> wrapper script is if you want to run htsearch in interactive mode, and
> run the wrapper rather than the real htsearch program. In this case,
> you may want to specify -v or -c conf options, which the wrapper should
> pass on to the real program. These are the only arguments htsearch uses,
> hence the spartan usage message.
>
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