hope this is easy, passing a url as a parameter

[Danny]

I am trying to pass a parameter to a cgi script, it is a URL that has its
own call to a cgi script with ? in statement.
for example

so my cgi (load.cgi) is getting confused because of the extra ? in the
statement.
my cgi redirects to the passed url

I call it like this:
www.domain.com/cgi-bin/load.cgi?url=http://www.anotherdomain.com/cgi-bin/pro
ducts.cgi?search=volvo

what do I do to get that entire url, right now it is stopping at the other ?

Thanks in advance

 

[John Bokma]

I am trying to pass a parameter to a cgi script, it is a URL that has its
own call to a cgi script with ? in statement.
for example

so my cgi (load.cgi) is getting confused because of the extra ? in the
statement.
my cgi redirects to the passed url

I call it like this:
www.domain.com/cgi-bin/load.cgi?url=http://www.anotherdomain.com/cgi-bin/pro
ducts.cgi?search=volvo

Encode the URL, this is wrong.

 

[Danny]

Encode the URL, this is wrong.

Thanks

How can I encode the URL.?

 

[Gregory Toomey]

Thanks

How can I encode the URL.?

Its a faq.

http://www.perldoc.com/perl5.8.0/pod/perlfaq9.html
How do I decode or create those %-encodings on the web?


But its better to use the cgi.pm module

gtoomey

 

[Danny]

Its a faq.

http://www.perldoc.com/perl5.8.0/pod/perlfaq9.html
How do I decode or create those %-encodings on the web?


But its better to use the cgi.pm module

gtoomey

Thanks

I will fix this:

but an initial call with this long url is always made from my index.html,
how can I encode a URL in an HTML page?

Thanks again

 

[gnari]

Thanks

but an initial call with this long url is always made from my index.html,
how can I encode a URL in an HTML page?

thats where the FAQ code can be handy.
just make a short script that encodes our urls, and
paste them into your html.
or have your whole html file generated by this script.
or just use a oneliner:
perl -ple '$_="text to encode";s/([^\w()\'*~!.-])/sprintf "%%%02x", ord
$1/eg'

gnari