POST not working on CGI executable

foobar · - Joined: 29 Jun 2004 Posts: 2

I have a CGI executable, account.exe, enabled under Abyss, and it partially works. Calling up the program with say http://127.0.0.1/account.exe I get a Web form as I'm supposed to, but when I try to submit the form, no POST actually takes place, it just seems to do a GET. Same account.exe works under IIS and Apache.

Have "Resolve interpreter using the Windows Registry=Yes" and added the account.exe under CGI Paths, and all that seems fine--the program executes as opposed to trigger a browser download.

What have I done wrong?

aprelium · - Joined: 22 Mar 2002 Posts: 6800

foobar,

All depends on the HTML code in the form you're using. The best to do is to send us a zipped package to support@aprelium.com containing your abyss.conf file, your CGI executable and HTML forms that use it.
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foobar · - Joined: 29 Jun 2004 Posts: 2

The HTML is alright, ie method="POST", so that's not it. The exact same executable works under IIS 5-6 and Apache 2.0.43. I'll zip things up and send you an email.

n1ist · - Joined: 05 Aug 2004 Posts: 4

I am seeing the same thing here. The form definitely has method="POST",
yet adding a system("set"); in my cgi executable shows
REQUEST_METHOD=GET
CONTENT_LENGTH=0

Any ideas what to look for?
Thanks.
/mike

aprelium-beta · - Joined: 24 Jun 2004 Posts: 383

n1ist · - Joined: 05 Aug 2004 Posts: 4

Here's the html:

<html><head><title>survey</title></head>
<body>
<form action="http://www.ardai.org/cgi-bin/barcsurvey.exe" method="POST">
<input type="submit" value="Click Here to submit the survey">
</form>
</body></html>

And here's the result of the system("set") in barcsurvey.exe:

PROMPT=$P$G
SystemRoot=C:\WINNT
PATH=C:\WINNT\system32;C:\WINNT;C:\WINNT\System32\Wbem
COMSPEC=C:\WINNT\system32\cmd.exe
PATHEXT=.COM;.EXE;.BAT;.CMD;.VBS;.VBE;.JS;.JSE;.WSF;.WSH
WINDIR=C:\WINNT
TMP=C:\DOCUME~1\pc\LOCALS~1\Temp
TEMP=C:\DOCUME~1\pc\LOCALS~1\Temp
SERVER_SOFTWARE=Abyss/1.2.3.0-Win32 AbyssLib/1.1.0
SERVER_NAME=ardai.dyndns.org
SERVER_PROTOCOL=HTTP/1.1
SERVER_PORT=80
REMOTE_ADDR=192.168.1.1
REMOTE_PORT=17160
GATEWAY_INTERFACE=CGI/1.1
DOCUMENT_ROOT=C:\program files\abyss web server\htdocs
REQUEST_URI=/cgi-bin/barcsurvey.exe
SCRIPT_NAME=/cgi-bin/barcsurvey.exe
SCRIPT_FILENAME=C:\program files\abyss web server\cgi-bin\barcsurvey.exe
REQUEST_METHOD=GET
CONTENT_LENGTH=0
REMOTE_USER=
HTTP_ACCEPT=image/gif, image/x-xbitmap, image/jpeg, image/pjpeg, application/vnd.ms-powerpoint, application/vnd.ms-excel, application/msword, */*
HTTP_REFERER=http://ardai.dyndns.org/testsurvey.html
HTTP_ACCEPT_LANGUAGE=en-us
HTTP_ACCEPT_ENCODING=gzip, deflate
HTTP_USER_AGENT=Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; Windows NT 5.0)
HTTP_HOST=ardai.dyndns.org
HTTP_CONNECTION=Keep-Alive
HTTP_CACHE_CONTROL=no-cache

I have tried this with ie 6.0 sp1, netscape 7.1, and Opera 7.23 as my browser. Both the webserver and browser are running Win2K.

(edited to strip out more extraneous stuff from the html...)

aprelium · - Joined: 22 Mar 2002 Posts: 6800

n1ist,

Your HTML code seems fine. But we recommend trying to change your HTML to <form action="/cgi-bin/barcsurvey.exe" ...>. We suspect that you're using a redirection service that changes the request.

Does it work now? If it is still not correct, please send to support@aprelium.com a compressed package containing your your HTML file and your .exe CGI application.
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n1ist · - Joined: 05 Aug 2004 Posts: 4

Ugh. Sometimes it is the obvious that gets you. The system() call does an exec so it didn't inherit the updated environment. Using getenv() to get the REQUEST_METHOD shows that it is POST. Thanks.
/mike