[thelist] Re: CGI Question

[Benjamin]

Are you referring to running it from a command line? If so then there are 2
ways (depending on platform)

*nix: just run the script as if it were a webpage such as $
blah.pl?id=123&user=test and the variables will be parsed correctly.

With windows you will need to hard code the variables. I usually comment
out the original line and place the hard coded line just below it so that I
can find and remove the test variable later.

I'm not sure how to do this on a Mac (OSX should be like *nix above I
believe). Trying to get an older mac on my network as we speak.

Hope this helps.

-benjamin


At 03:55 PM 6/20/2002 -0500, you wrote:
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>If you run a CGI program that is compiled as an executable, how does it get
>the environmental variables?
>
>Thanks,
>Josh