Re: [WEB400] Re: CGI URL

[Anton Gombkötö <gombkoetoe@xxxxxxxxxx>]

> I suppose we should be writing CGI programs in assembly language
> then, eh?  After all, assembly language is just as capable as any
> other language, right?  ;-)
This thread could be getting rather long on the MI400 list. ;-)

> Yes, CGIDEV2 is an important piece of software for CGI RPG
> programmers, and Mel should be commended for his work in that area.
> But looking at the readme file, I see some functions missing.  Where
> is the function to escape non-HTML text in an HTML document?  Where
> is the function to properly URL-encode a query string?
The answer is easy.

In service programs of a company called IBM.

Maybe this functionality is even more than once on an iSeries. I guess
there are Java classes that do the same job (i'm no Java man - yet).

While Java surely is documented, the hidden treasures most likely aren't.

I guess that Net.Data is using certain functions in service programs, if
not, it should be at least. The browser-based HTTP server configuration
should be using them.

> These are things needed by practically every CGI program, and are standard
> features of the libraries provided to the programmers of other
> languages commonly used for CGI programming.
And we have the treasure of ILE and should be able to use it without the
need to change the language. Yes, Java and Python and whatever exotic might
be great and by typing just a genius abbreviation one could write something
that does a lot - but i think there are a lot of programmers in this small
planet that are able to write programs today and would be able to write
decent CGI programs tomorrow (not next year, if ever) if they had more
support instead of "you're using the wrong language".

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Anton Gombkötö
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