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  • Update mindi-busybox to 1.18.3 to avoid problems with the tar command which is now failing on recent versions with busybox 1.7.3
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1<html><head><title>CGI Script input</title></head><body><h1><img alt="" src="in_files/CGIlogo.gif"> CGI Script Input</h1>
2<hr>
3
4<h2>Specification</h2>
5
6For requests which have information attached after the header, such as
7HTTP POST or PUT, the information will be sent to the script on stdin.
8<p>
9
10The server will send <a href="http://hoohoo.ncsa.uiuc.edu/cgi/env.html#cl">CONTENT_LENGTH</a> bytes on
11this file descriptor. Remember that it will give the <a href="http://hoohoo.ncsa.uiuc.edu/cgi/env.html#ct">CONTENT_TYPE</a> of the data as well. The server is
12in no way obligated to send end-of-file after the script reads
13<code>CONTENT_LENGTH</code> bytes. </p><p>
14</p><hr>
15<h2>Example</h2>
16
17Let's take a form with METHOD="POST" as an example. Let's say the form
18results are 7 bytes encoded, and look like <code>a=b&amp;b=c</code>.
19<p>
20
21In this case, the server will set CONTENT_LENGTH to 7 and CONTENT_TYPE
22to application/x-www-form-urlencoded. The first byte on the script's
23standard input will be "a", followed by the rest of the encoded string.</p><p>
24
25</p><hr>
26
27<a href="http://hoohoo.ncsa.uiuc.edu/cgi/interface.html"><img alt="[Back]" src="in_files/back.gif">Return to the
28interface specification</a> <p>
29
30CGI - Common Gateway Interface
31</p><address><a href="http://hoohoo.ncsa.uiuc.edu/cgi/mailtocgi.html">cgi@ncsa.uiuc.edu</a></address>
32
33</body></html>
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