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I am trying to pass a parameter to a cgi script, it is a URL that has its
own call to a cgi script with ? in statement.
for example

so my cgi (load.cgi) is getting confused because of the extra ? in the
statement.
my cgi redirects to the passed url

I call it like this:
http://www.domain.com/cgi-bin/load.c...om/cgi-bin/pro
ducts.cgi?search=volvo

what do I do to get that entire url, right now it is stopping at the other ?

Thanks in advance

Danny wrote:
> I am trying to pass a parameter to a cgi script, it is a URL that has its
> own call to a cgi script with ? in statement.
> for example
>
> so my cgi (load.cgi) is getting confused because of the extra ? in the
> statement.
> my cgi redirects to the passed url
>
> I call it like this:
> http://www.domain.com/cgi-bin/load.c...om/cgi-bin/pro
> ducts.cgi?search=volvo

Encode the URL, this is wrong.

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"John Bokma" <> wrote in message
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> Danny wrote:
> > I am trying to pass a parameter to a cgi script, it is a URL that has
its
> > own call to a cgi script with ? in statement.
> > for example
> >
> > so my cgi (load.cgi) is getting confused because of the extra ? in the
> > statement.
> > my cgi redirects to the passed url
> >
> > I call it like this:
> >
http://www.domain.com/cgi-bin/load.c...om/cgi-bin/pro
> > ducts.cgi?search=volvo
>
> Encode the URL, this is wrong.
>
> --
> John MexIT: http://johnbokma.com/mexit/
> personal page: http://johnbokma.com/
> Experienced Perl programmer available: http://castleamber.com/

Thanks

How can I encode the URL.?

Danny wrote:

>
> "John Bokma" <> wrote in message
> news:40931fc8$0$198$...
>> Danny wrote:
>> > I am trying to pass a parameter to a cgi script, it is a URL that has
> its
>> > own call to a cgi script with ? in statement.
>> > for example
>> >
>> > so my cgi (load.cgi) is getting confused because of the extra ? in the
>> > statement.
>> > my cgi redirects to the passed url
>> >
>> > I call it like this:
>> >
> http://www.domain.com/cgi-bin/load.c...in.com/cgi-bin
pro
>> > ducts.cgi?search=volvo
>>
>> Encode the URL, this is wrong.
>>
>> --
>> John MexIT: http://johnbokma.com/mexit/
>> personal page: http://johnbokma.com/
>> Experienced Perl programmer available: http://castleamber.com/
>
> Thanks
>
> How can I encode the URL.?

Its a faq.

http://www.perldoc.com/perl5.8.0/pod/perlfaq9.html
How do I decode or create those %-encodings on the web?


But its better to use the cgi.pm module

gtoomey

"Gregory Toomey" <> wrote in message
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> Danny wrote:
>
> >
> > "John Bokma" <> wrote in message
> > news:40931fc8$0$198$...
> >> Danny wrote:
> >> > I am trying to pass a parameter to a cgi script, it is a URL that
has
> > its
> >> > own call to a cgi script with ? in statement.
> >> > for example
> >> >
> >> > so my cgi (load.cgi) is getting confused because of the extra ? in
the
> >> > statement.
> >> > my cgi redirects to the passed url
> >> >
> >> > I call it like this:
> >> >
> > http://www.domain.com/cgi-bin/load.c...in.com/cgi-bin
> pro
> >> > ducts.cgi?search=volvo
> >>
> >> Encode the URL, this is wrong.
> >>
> >> --
> >> John MexIT: http://johnbokma.com/mexit/
> >> personal page: http://johnbokma.com/
> >> Experienced Perl programmer available: http://castleamber.com/
> >
> > Thanks
> >
> > How can I encode the URL.?
>
> Its a faq.
>
> http://www.perldoc.com/perl5.8.0/pod/perlfaq9.html
> How do I decode or create those %-encodings on the web?
>
>
> But its better to use the cgi.pm module
>
> gtoomey

Thanks

I will fix this:

but an initial call with this long url is always made from my index.html,
how can I encode a URL in an HTML page?

Thanks again

"Danny" <> wrote in message
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>
> "Gregory Toomey" <> wrote in message
> news:1513682.d3x1Bjo0rK@GMT-hosting-and-pickle-farming...
> > Danny wrote:
> >
> >
> > Its a faq.
> >
> > http://www.perldoc.com/perl5.8.0/pod/perlfaq9.html
> > How do I decode or create those %-encodings on the web?
> >
> >
> > But its better to use the cgi.pm module
> >
>
> Thanks
>
> but an initial call with this long url is always made from my index.html,
> how can I encode a URL in an HTML page?

thats where the FAQ code can be handy.
just make a short script that encodes our urls, and
paste them into your html.
or have your whole html file generated by this script.
or just use a oneliner:
perl -ple '$_="text to encode";s/([^\w()\'*~!.-])/sprintf "%%%02x", ord
$1/eg'

gnari