CS 596: Client-Server Programming
Spring Semester, 1997
Doc 24, CGI Environment Examples
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CGI Test Cases
This document references a test server which has implemented the CGI
interface. It is provided to give a better understanding of how CGI
works in reality. This document is modified from a similar document from
NCSA
This is just a request for a CGI script with no extra path information
and no query.
http://www-rohan.sdsu.edu/faculty/whitney/cgi-bin/cgiExamples/CGIEcho.cgi
This is a request for a script with extra path information, and no
query.
http://www-rohan.sdsu.edu/faculty/whitney/cgi-bin/cgiExamples/CGIEcho.cgi/extra/path
This is a request for a script with no extra path information, and an
ISINDEX query.
http://www-rohan.sdsu.edu/faculty/whitney/cgi-bin/cgiExamples/CGIEcho.cgi?query
This is a request for a script with extra path information as well as
an ISINDEX query.
http://www-rohan.sdsu.edu/faculty/whitney/cgi-bin/cgiExamples/CGIEcho.cgi/extra/path?a=query&b=cat
You'll need a browser which supports HTML forms for this example.
Clicking the submit button will send a form request with no extra
path information using the GET method.
You'll need a browser which supports HTML forms for this example.
Clicking the submit button will send an form request with no extra
path information using the POST method.
You'll need a browser which supports HTML forms for this example.
Clicking the submit button will send an form request with extra path
information of /foo using the POST method.
