CGI test cases
This document references a test server which has implemented the CGI interface.
It is provided to give a better understanding of how CGI works in reality.
If you are interested, you should look at the source for the CGI script
used in these examples.
For more source of CGI scripts, see the CGI archive of scripts people
have written. In addition, see the NCSA httpd distribution in the cgi-src
directory.
This is just a request for a CGI script with no extra path information
and no query.
http://hoohoo.ncsa.uiuc.edu/cgi-bin/exam.cgi
This is a request for a script with extra path information, and no
query.
http://hoohoo.ncsa.uiuc.edu/cgi-bin/exam.cgi/extra/path
This is a request for a script with no extra path information, and
an ISINDEX query.
http://hoohoo.ncsa.uiuc.edu/cgi-bin/exam.cgi?query
This is a request for a script with extra path information as well
as an ISINDEX query.
http://hoohoo.ncsa.uiuc.edu/cgi-bin/exam.cgi/extra/path?a+query
You'll need a browser which supports HTML forms for this example. Clicking
the submit button will send a form request with no extra path information
using the GET method.
You'll need a browser which supports HTML forms for this example. Clicking
the submit button will send an form request with no extra path information
using the POST method.
You'll need a browser which supports HTML forms for this example. Clicking
the submit button will send an form request with extra path information
of /foo using the POST method.
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