wininet and cgi ...

[iza]

hi
i'm sure it's an obvious question, and it sure has already been answered but the search feature is disabled
so ...
i'm using the wininet classes to send a request, and retrieve the result sent by the server. It works fine until i change the server settings to post to a cgi page ... then my app says it times out

some code if it helps ...
this works :
CInternetSession sess(_T("...&quot);
CHttpConnection* connexion=sess.GetHttpConnection("fr.....net",(INTERNET_PORT)8080,NULL,NULL);
if (connexion!=NULL) {
CHttpFile* hFile=connexion->OpenRequest(
"POST",
"foo1/foo2",
"....net",
1,
NULL,
NULL,
INTERNET_FLAG_EXISTING_CONNECT);
if (hFile)
{
char szBoundary[] = "...";
if ((hFile->AddRequestHeaders("Content-Type: multipart/form-data; boundary=...", HTTP_ADDREQ_FLAG_ADD | HTTP_ADDREQ_FLAG_REPLACE)))
{
//put all form datas in pbuffer
//...
if ((hFile->SendRequest(NULL, 0, (LPVOID)pBuffer,nBufferOffset)))
...
}

ok, this is fine. Now i replace the green line with this one and it's not working anymore !!!!

CHttpFile* hFile=connexion->OpenRequest(
"POST",
"cgi-bin/foo1/foo2.cgi",
...);

what am i missing there ?????

 

[palbano]

iza,

A point to keep in mind is that your request is going to the web server. Your request and the wininet libraries do not know or care about the CGI script. The web server handles the CGI script. Therefore the problem is not related to Wininet.

-pete

 

[iza]

thanx - that's what i was thinking, but it's kinda hard to debug, as i can't have an access to the server

 

[palbano]

> thanx - that's what i was thinking, but it's kinda hard to debug, as
> i can't have an access to the server

If it is not your script, why do you need to debug it? If it is your script why don't you have access to it?

Confused
-pete

 

[iza]

i mean, the script has been written by someone in my company, and the server belongs to my company as well - but 1. i can't access them (script & server) easily and 2. i know they are *not* bugged, so it had to be my app !! and it was the file i was sending, i was missing a carriage return ... !!!! now it's working almost fine, i'm just looking for differences between win9x and win2000 for the release (such as : it seems CClientDC are not exactly supported the same way ..)