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POST through sockets
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Dave Banthorpe EOS)
Tue Jan 31 11:31:50 1995
Date: Tue, 31 Jan 1995 16:48:06 +0100
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From: "Dave Banthorpe EOS" <daveb@eos4.eos.co.uk>
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Can anybody help me with this problem:
I have a plain text file (256 bytes long) that I wish to send via HTTP to a CGI
for processing.
At present I do the following:
Open a socket to the HTTP server (where the CGI is held).
Open the text file for reading and send the following down the socket:
POST /cgi-bin/testprogram
Content-type: text/plain
Content-length: 256
(file gets put here)
The server picks up the POST query and initiates the CGI but it does not set
the Content-type and Content-length environment variables.
Got any ideas?
Am I using the MIME type headers incorrectly?
Is there a better way to do this?
Dave Banthorpe (EOS).
