Web Connection User's Guide
The CGI Link Request part represents a request from a client
browser. It provides a means of directly accessing an incoming
request. A Web Connection part does not have to include a CGI Link
Request part; but if it does, the CGI Link Server makes the information
from the incoming request available through the CGI Link Request part.
By connecting to the events and attributes of the CGI Link Request part,
you can do the following:
- You can retrieve the variables sent from the browser from the
cgiVars attribute. These variables provide information such
as the client and server software being used, the client host and user names,
and authentication information (when available).
- You can access all of the form data sent with the request, stored in a
LookupTable, from the formData attribute. This
provides an alternative to Form Data for getting access to the form
data. You might want to use this method if you need access to all the
form data in a LookupTable, or if the form submitting the request
was not built with Web Connection.
- You can use the requestReceived event to trigger actions that
you want to execute each time a request comes in. For example, you
might want to write an entry to a log file each time a request comes
in. The requestReceived event fires with each request,
regardless of whether the request results in HTML being generated.
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