When the browsers and servers send strings back and forth, they are
encoded to accomodate things like spaces and other special characters.
When you fill out a browser form and POST it to a script, the fields in
the form are encoded into a string, which then has to be decoded.
So, if a form had the fields Email and Message, you could send the
Message to the Email address with
query: make object! decode-cgi-query system/options/cgi/query-string
send query/Email query/Message
For more on the CGI in general, try
http://hoohoo.ncsa.uiuc.edu/cgi/overview.html
and
http://bignosebird.com/lscgi.shtml
HTH.
-Ted.
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On 1/17/2000 at 12:22 AM [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
hey guys,
trying to run some of the REBOL cgi's, I get "decode-cgi expected
argument of type..." Ok. I looked, honest! but is "decode cgi" a
script, or arguments I pass to the script, or what. If arguments, what
form should they take? Or what else am I not doing right?
thanks,
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-t
