Re: Passing Parms to CGI From CL.

["Terry Anderson" <terrya@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

I found the answer on another board. It appears that the & is treated as
a special character and needs to be "escaped" using the carat (^). Once
I changed '&qstrat_rfq=' to '^&qstrat_rfq=', my parms started to show
up. I am still going to look into rundll32 option, though.  

Thanks to all who replied. 


Terry Anderson
Programming Manager
Citation Corporation
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> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: web400-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx 
> > [mailto:web400-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Bob P. Roche
> > Sent: Thursday, January 03, 2008 11:28 AM
> > To: Web Enabling the AS400 / iSeries
> > Subject: Re: [WEB400] Passing Parms to CGI From CL.
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> >
> > Look thru the archives. Scott Klement has answered this in 
> > the past. I 
> > know he has a good article about this (not sure where the 
> > URL is at the 
> > moment). 
> >
> > In my code I have CHGVAR     VAR(&CMD) VALUE('rundll32 
> > url,FileProtocolHandler' *BCAT &URL *TCAT '?CODE=' *TCAT &code) 
> >
> > I know I'm only sending one parameter and not 2, but Using 
> > rundll32 was a 
> > way to handle more than one parameter. I also remember the 
> > case had to be 
> > left as listed for "rundll32 url,FileProtocolHandler".
> >
> >
> >
> >
> > "Terry Anderson" <terrya@xxxxxxxxxxxx> 
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> > 01/03/2008 11:04 AM
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> > [WEB400] Passing Parms to CGI From CL.
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> > Greetings List,
> > I hope all of you had a merry Christmas and have a happy and 
> > prosperous 
> > new year.
> >
> > Here is what I am trying to do. I have a CGIDEV2 program that adds 
> > footnotes to an RFQ. Since several divisions will be using 
> > this program, I 
> > need to send the division name as well as the RFQ number to the CGI 
> > program.
> >
> > I have the following commands in my CL program:
> >
> > CHGVAR     VAR(&PCCOMMAND) VALUE('START 
> > http://xx.xx.xxx.xx:8014/citcgidevp/GETDIV2?division=' *TCAT 
> > &DIVISION 
> > *TCAT '&qstrat_rfq=' *TCAT &QLMRFQ#) 
> >
> > STRPCCMD   PCCMD(&PCCOMMAND) PAUSE(*NO) 
> >
> > I can get this to work if I key it into the command line of 
> > the browser 
> > but not when I call it from the CL.  Can some one tell me 
> > what I am doing 
> > wrong? I saw an older post somewhere that said that the 
> > START command was 
> > limited to 123 characters. Is that correct and if so, how do you get 
> > around this limitation?
> >
> >
> > Thanks,
> >
> >
> > Terry Anderson
> > Programming Manager
> > Citation Corporation
> > Switchboard 1.251.867.5481 ext 212
> > Direct Line 1.251.809.2312
> > Fax 251.867.0525
> > Cell  1.251.363.4975
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