From: Richard Dawe <richdawe AT bigfoot DOT com>
Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.djgpp
Subject: Re: DJGPP & CGI
Date: Tue, 21 Mar 2000 21:21:21 +0000
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Hello.

Damon Hogan wrote:
> Use that to compile the test.c cgi program attached.  So GCC  Mingw32
> (Win32) CGI works fine.
[Snip]
> #include <stdio.h>
> #include <stdlib.h>
> 
> int main(void)
> {
> char hello[1000];
> 
> printf("Content-type: text/html\n\n");

Shouldn't that be:

printf("Content-Type: text/html\n\n");

I thought the header fields were case-sensitive?

> printf("\n\nTesting!\n\n");
> scanf("%s",hello);

Where is the user input going to come from? From the client, who is
waiting for your reply to the GET request?

> printf("%s\n",hello);
> printf("%s\n",getenv("QUERY_STRING"));
> }

I think you should also print some HTML or change the content type to
text/plain.

Bye,

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Richard Dawe
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