Another CGI question...

This should do what you need:

http://www.codeguru.com/cpp/tic/tic0305.shtml

Thanks for the link, its got some usefull stuff in it. Unfortunately it doesn''t answer my question since every example there uses forms. My program really needs to have the data sent to it via a hyperlink: <a href="blah.exe?Number=42">Click here!</a>

Any ideas?

Cheers again,
Steve

Steve
DirectX Programmer
Soon to be the new Bill Gates

That info should be coming through in the QUERY_STRING environment variable. You also need to make sure that your program is correctly handling the difference between a GET request and a POST request (check env var REQUEST_METHOD). The hyperlink call is a GET request, whereas most forms use POST because it can handle more data.

Take a look here.

<form action="http://xxx.xxx.xxx/xxx.exe" method="GET">
<input type="text" name="variable1">
<input type="text" name="variable2">
<input type="submit" value="FIND">
<input type="reset" value="CLEAR">

Ah, fenning. I''m an idiot
When i said it wasn;t comming in through an enviroment variable, i checked by purring a breakpoint at the getenv() function, and looking at the variable that is a list of all the enviroment variables. But of course to do that i have to be in Debug mode, which meant it wasn''t running on my HTTP server, so the CGI enviroment vars weren''t going into it. Oops

Thanks pieman, thats a good link.


Cheers,
Steve

Steve
DirectX Programmer
Soon to be the new Bill Gates