Sure, if you define the QUERY_STRING in your post, but it won't naturally
be there in a post.
Ben
At 11:52 AM 6/27/01 -0700, Mark Bergeron wrote:
>I beg to differ. I pass query args. to POST all of the time and it's the
right way to do it! For me.
>
>Mark'
>
>-----Original Message-----
>From: "Ben Wheeler"<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>To: "Perl Win32 Web"<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>Date: Wed Jun 27 11:27:12 PDT 2001
>Subject: Re: Problem with Form "Post"
>
>>The QUERY_STRING environment variable is defined to be the string of
>>characters contained after the ? in the url. If you are doing a post,
>>there is no ? in the url so of course it will be blank. Not all
>>environment variables are always applicable to each situation.
>>
>>Ben
>>
>>At 11:17 AM 6/27/01 -0700, Mark Bergeron wrote:
>>>Are you using CGI.pm? If so you have to make a couple of changes to the
>>module to get POST to work with query args.
>>>
>>>Mark'
>>>
>>>-----Original Message-----
>>>From: "Russ Fineman"<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>>>To: "Perl Win32 Web"<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>>>Date: Wed Jun 27 10:05:37 PDT 2001
>>>Subject: Problem with Form "Post"
>>>
>>>>I'm not sure if this is the correct group, if not could you let me know
>>which one is.
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>I have a problem getting the "Post" function to work in a Form. Below is
>>my form and a test screen to retrieve the environmental variables. My
>>actual problem is trying to post form information to a text file. When I
>>use "POST" the QUERY_STRING = comes back blank. If I change to a "GET"
>>function it works fine. I have tryed this using PWS with the form and
>>program in the cgi-bin folder. I have also run this on my UNIX Host for my
>>Lions Club Web Page. with the same results.
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>Can anyone tell me what I'm missing??
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>Below is the form and the Perl script:
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>FORM
>>>>
>>>><html>
>>>>
>>>><head><title>test of cgi</title></head
>>>>
>>>><body>
>>>>
>>>><form action="http://www.gigharborlions.org/cgi-bin/env.cgi"; method="GET">
>>>>
>>>>Enter some text:
>>>>
>>>><input type="text" name="sample_text" size=30>
>>>>
>>>><input type="submit"><p>
>>>>
>>>></form>
>>>>
>>>></body>
>>>>
>>>></html>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>Script (Note: when on UNIX the first line is #!/usr/bin/perl)
>>>>
>>>>#!c:\perl\bin\perl
>>>>
>>>>print "Content-Type: text/html\n\n";
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>print <<EndOfHTML;
>>>>
>>>><HTML><HEAD><TITLE>Print Environment</TITLE><?HEAD>
>>>>
>>>><body>
>>>>
>>>>EndOfHTML
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>foreach $key (sort(keys %ENV)) {
>>>>
>>>>print "$key = $ENV{$key}<br>\n";
>>>>
>>>>}
>>>>
>>>>print "</body></HTML>";
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
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