Re: AW: CGIs and HTML FORMs

2018-02-07 Thread Mary Kay Tubello
Hi Mike, When I read your post a few days ago, you suggested I use 'hidden' fields in my cgi and write the form using 'says' . But I can't see that post now. However, I want to thank you. Works like a charm! I wrote two cgis - one to do the form and one to do the processing. I wrote two be

Re: AW: CGIs and HTML FORMs

2018-02-01 Thread Grinsell, Don
rnard Shaw From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List on behalf of Mary Kay Tubello Sent: Thursday, February 1, 2018 09:28 To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Subject: Re: AW: CGIs and HTML FORMs Thanks Mike, But what you say is the part that I have already done. I need help combining the info from the cgi U

Re: AW: CGIs and HTML FORMs

2018-02-01 Thread Mary Kay Tubello
Thanks Mike, But what you say is the part that I have already done. I need help combining the info from the cgi URL and the form. Those are the last three points in my request. And I'll add this comment IN other words, I want save what came in on the URL so I can append what came in from th

AW: CGIs and HTML FORMs

2018-01-31 Thread Mike Beer
Hi, There will be platform-specific considerations, but generally there are 2 ways to pass parameters to a webserver: 1) GET 2) POST Get is easier to user: If you have e.g. a userid and a password then the call could look like this: https://...?user=&password=yyy everything after the que