Re: [WEB400] Re: CGI URL

["Brad Stone" <brad@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

> To
> illustrate, I can send you my 200 line Python program
> that does the
> same job as a published 400 line RPG CGI program.  (To
> keep the
> comparison fair, I kept the program structure the same
> and included
> the same comments.)

And I could do the opposite.  Just include file i/o to
native db.

>
> 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?

So you have brought up 100 times, hans.  We're still waiting
for BIFs to be included in RPG to do this.  Or is that too
much to ask.  I would think that this one thing that you
keep pointing out, if it really does bother you that much,
that it would be on the top of your to do list for new BIFs.

No offense, Hans, but I'm sure I'm not the only one that
gets tired of hearing how great Perl, Python, etc are, and
the all of the RPG CGI references are missing encoding
procedures.  But, CGIDEV2 does have the Char2Hex and
Hex2Char subprocedures which can be used to encode special
characters.

It's funny, though, that I have yet to need this
functionality.

Go to:
http://www.bvstools.com/erpg/erpgv2/examples/testcgiparse1.html

Tell me which characters don't work without encoding.  And
not euro symbols, etc.