Shockwave sends data to the server

 
 

For security reasons all File IO in Shockwave are disabled. Now, how could I save informations entered by users of a Shockwave application? Highscore, name & adress, credit card numbers ;)... Use cgi
Basics , ShockMail , getWebPref , HighScore ,
Further Info , Navigation


 

 

Basics

     
    It is possible to send data with an url as a query_string and if this url points to a propper script on your server the data will be processed or stored or sent as email or whatever else you wish there.
Basic Syntax:
url_to_cgi-bin/scriptname?name=value&name=value&name=value...
  Just a starter. The perl script involved here only echoes the data it receives.
  handling parameters The perl script involved here lists the received name value pairs.
  writing data to a file
  perl to search a text data file for some expression
     

 

 
 

ShockMail

 
  Send an eMail from a Shocklet
A Shockwave sending data to a perl-script  which in turn gives them to unix's sendmail to send them via eMail.
  Download a zip-archive with .dir, .pl and readme.txt
     

 

 

getWebPref

 
    This thingee is meant as an server based equivalent to the local setpref/getpref commands available in shockWave's netLingo
  More info and a ShockLet to test it: webPrefs

 

 

HighScore

 
  To store and retrieve a highscore-table for a ShockLet both lingo to send, fetch, format and display the HighScore and a cgi to store the data on the server are needed.
  There is a detailed docu and testpage of the perls action: docu


 

Further Info

   
  Configuring and installing a perl script on the server
 
  perl tutorial
 
  getnettext cache
Every getnetText() downloads the content of its url to the systems TEMP
 
  getNetText/postNetText url Length
how long a URL can I feed to the getNetText command
 
  getnettext() and MSIE
<OBJECT
 
  Just learn perl
sources and perl archives
 
  Netlingo Error Codes
Yet Another Error Code List
 
  querifyTxt
urlencode
 
  Server Result Codes
HTTP SERVER STATUS CODES
 
  shockwave und Ausgabe in Dateien
I use Shockwave to send text to a cgi, writing a file
 
  urlencode 2
on urlEncode whichString
 



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Daniel Plänitz www.lingo.de 16.12.98, 22.5.00