Re: 4GL CGI Interface

Jonathan Leffler wrote: > > Judging from the code in cgigetenv.c, which is called from cgistart.c, > which in turn is called from icgistart.c, which is where icgi_start() is defined, > then I would guess that one or other of the environment variables SERVER_NAME > or REQUEST_METHOD is not set correctly. See also the code in cgimethod.c. > > icgi_start() does not do much, if anything, with the database itself. > > } LET foo = icgi_start() > } It is true that icgi_start() requires these two variables to be set to succeed. If you do want to "trick" the executable into thinking it's running in CGI, set them something like this: setenv SERVER_NAME <anything> setenv REQUEST_METHOD <GET or POST> Then it can be run from the command line. All icgi_start() does is read and store the CGI-specific environment variables as well as the name-value pairs from your HTML form. It has to know the REQUEST_METHOD in order to do this right. Otherwise, it doesn't depend on at all on the version of the database or compiler. =============================================================== Matthew Eichler Project Manager Informix Software, Inc. MIS Systems Technology Group (415) 926-6863 FAX (415) 926-6959 matthew@informix.com http://www.informix.com ===============================================================