Hello Shari, >> I think you are misunderstanding the meaning >> of "post". POST sends a request in POST-format >> to a url, e.g. a CGI app.
Both methods ( GET and POST ) submit a request to a web server. Plus the responding appl on the server-side is not necessarily using the CGI protocol. You could use GET or POST to request a PHP page with the form elements as parameters to PHP page-generaion process. The GET method sends these parameters, e.g. EXTRA info, appended to the URL. This URL and its extra information are visible to the user, limited in length, constrained in terms of content (allowed chars) but, the nice thing about them is that they can be bookmarked. SearchEngins use GET so that you can bookmark your search ; not just the page. The POST method sends the EXTRA information appended to the request message as you would attach an attachment to an e-mail message. The extra information does NOT appear in the URL. You cannot bookmark the extra info, as you can with GET, but the URL is clean, the information is more secure because it's less visible, there can be far mor information included with a POST than you could ever put into a URL. >> I think what you are looking for is an FTP upload? >> post userList to url "http://www.someurl/list.txt"; There are more than two methods, e.g. GET and POST. There are also other methods which get much less press than the two former ones. The PUT method, for instance, allows one to store content on a server as a [new] file. > Actually I have not done one thing as yet... > which is to surf the net for CGI scripts > for this... It sounds like they do exist. Right you are, Shari. All you need is a basic MC-based CGI stack; which you can find in MetaCard's tutorials, in the list's archives and, therefore, in the minds of many of your fellow MC-netizens as well. Once you got the basic CGI working, script it so that it creates the file[s] you wish. If it seems way too easy, notably for those of you with some Java experience, then I guess that's why MC stacks/apps could be considered as "unsafe" in environments requiring security. The web and Java do NOT normally allow writing-to-the-disk with the notable exception of cookies. Have fun! Alain __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Finance: Get your refund fast by filing online. http://taxes.yahoo.com/filing.html _______________________________________________ metacard mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/metacard
