On Sun, May 13, 2018 at 12:57:09AM -0400, William Park via talk wrote: > On Sat, May 12, 2018 at 08:38:23PM -0400, Jamon Camisso via talk wrote: > > On 2018-05-12 05:48 PM, William Park via talk wrote: > > > Hi all, > > > > > > If I'm sending single valued data over web, eg. a=111, b=222, c=333, > > > then I can do > > > http://.../xxx.cgi?a=111&b=222&c=333 > > > > > > How do I send array data, like A[1]=111, A[2]=222, A[3]=333 to a CGI > > > script? I don't think I can do something like > > > http://.../xxx.cgi?A[1]=111&A[2]=222&A[3]=333 > > > Or, can I? > > > > > > I have seen a same variable repeated, > > > http://.../xxx.cgi?A=111&A=222&A=333 > > > but that means the CGI script has to build the array. > > > > If JSON is an option, it is pretty easy to do what you're after in > > javascript. For example, I've been working on a project using > > crypto.subtle in the browser. I generate a key and an IV with > > javascript, and it is easy to represent the arrays of bytes like you've > > specified. > > > > > > For example: I have an IV Uint8Array(16) that looks like this: > > Uint8Array(16) [ 147, 174, 163, 227, 241, 236, 204, 23, 159, 18, ??? ] > > > > As a string it looks like what you'd expect - iv.toString() shows: > > "147,174,163,227,241,236,204,23,159,18,218,74,177,105,214,153" > > > > > > Now what you're after with mapping in JSON (I've inserted line breaks): > > JSON.stringify(iv)) > > {"0":147,"1":174,"2":163,"3":227,"4":241,"5":236, > > "6":204,"7":23,"8":159,"9":18,"10":218, > > "11":74,"12":177,"13":105,"14":214,"15":153} > > > > > > Alternatively, you can get an unkeyed array using Array.from() and > > converting that to JSON: > > JSON.stringify(Array.from(iv)) > > "[147,174,163,227,241,236,204,23,159,18,218,74,177,105,214,153]" > > > > Any of that look useful? > > What does URL look like, when sending those 16 integers? > > Or, has Web/CGI evolved to a point where you just include JSON content > in POST method, and javascript handles the magic behind the scene?
With a lot of people running node.js on the server side, yes that is often the case. Things like php of course handle form submitions with arrays nicely for you. -- Len Sorensen --- Talk Mailing List [email protected] https://gtalug.org/mailman/listinfo/talk
