Re: Decode perl cgi response in C

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By 'receive "Download" when I post to the cgi.... ' do you -- by any chance -- mean that when you do some sort of submit that you are prompted to "Download" something -- as, for example, your cgi script?

If so, you may have a permissions problem or a mis-configured Apache or cgi-bin.

If I've misconstrued your question or the logic needed to answer it, I offer my apologies to all those electrons which were inconvenienced by the creation of this post.

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Re^2: Decode perl cgi response in C by stenasc (Novice) on Jul 22, 2013 at 09:09 UTC
Yes...I think what it is telling me is to download a small file containing the text response. I tried an example in firefox and I got a prompt...Do you want to download test2.cgi? When I downloaded the file, it contained the desired text. "Hello". With my embedded system, I don't want to download a file...I just want to read the text it contains. Is that possible? I have a small perl client that just prints the response, so I would like to replicate this in C.	[reply]
Re^3: Decode perl cgi response in C by Corion (Patriarch) on Jul 22, 2013 at 10:56 UTC
Maybe you want to learn about "sockets"? I assume that Unix Network Programming still is the authoritative book about this. Basically, a "socket" is like a "file", except you can't seek on it, and it goes over the network. From C, you can read/write the socket and you only need to know about the protocol that is spoken over that socket. The basic idea is that "download data" vs. "read data" is only a frontend issue and exists only for users, not for programs.	[reply]

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