After some more digging and testing we found this was noting coming from the CGI app itself. The request never got that far. It made it to the Apache server but the Apache server never called the CGI app. We found that an asp form app that was making the call to my CGI app was translating any single quote character (') to an accent mark (’) and not encoding it so ' became ' (you can't see the difference but the ' is straight and the ' leans to the right. Apparently the Apache server does not like that character uuencoded. The group that developed the asp form said this is a standard process they do to stop cross site scripting and sql injection. That character is no longer being translated and now the Apache server is happy. This all started just before Valentine's Day on a form where we let parents send their college students a gift and the parent can enter a comment for the card on the gift. Can you guess why it started just recently and was intermittent?
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From: web400-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:web400-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Scott Klement
Sent: Tuesday, February 15, 2011 12:42 PM
To: Web Enabling the AS400 / iSeries
Subject: Re: [WEB400] Apache error from CGI app
Can you provide more context?
I've seen EINVAL (CPE3021): "The value specified for the argument is not correct" hundreds of times. Almost any API from the Unix-type APIs or ILE C runtime has the potential to generate this error, and it simply means "One of your parameters is wrong."
To troubleshoot this further, you need to know what's happening, and what the parameters are. But without any context, all I can say is "you did something wrong."
What is the program doing when you get this error? Is it possible that you're providing an invalid CCSID or encoding= value? Or maybe something else? Hard to say when you have no context at all!
On 2/15/2011 7:17 AM, Mike Cunningham wrote:
¬Mon Feb 14 09:11:17 2011| ¬error| ¬client 10.133.2.192| (3021)The
value specified for the argument is not correct.: ZSRV_MSG0579:
translation filter - returning error
Has anyone seen this error before and knows what it is trying to tell
us? This is coming from an ILE RPG app using CGI
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