We use cgi scripts quite extensively with both the Linux & Windows Ashell using the FORM METHOD=GET.

METHOD=POST works ok on Linux but not Windows as I see from the posting in "Other Topics" that CGI that Ashell/Windows does not use stdin & stdout, to quote:

ONE BIG CAVEAT: A-Shell/Windows does not yet support the CGI features. This is because CGI is based on stdin/stdout, which are not part of the standard Windows programming environment. I know how to implement them, but haven't had the time (or the popular demand) to do it yet. Are you planning to run your web server on a Windows platform? If so, then start bugging me to get that feature added. Otherwise, if you are using, say Linux, then there is not problem. (You would need A-Shell/Linux for the CGI engine, but it could in turn talk to your A-Shell/Windows application via a socket interface using TCPCLI.SBR & TCPSRV.SBR.)

Jack, consider this my "bugging you" and if anyone else would also like this feature maybe you could add your comments here!

This is an old post, but it is still of some concern. Am I correct to assume cgi still does not work with windows? I have not been successful in my recent attempts.

-Crow

Well, I guess that now makes two people bugging me. Guess I'd better start working on it...

Well it was a long and windy road... but 4.9.922 does finally support the CGI feature (with stdin/stdout) under A-Shell/Windows. So far, it has only been tested under XP with Apache 2.0 (which you can download for free from http://www.apache.org). It was very easy to install (I did it on a laptop), and you have the choice of making it a service or just launching it on demand (very convenient for development/testing).

See the entry in the ash49devnotes.txt file for more details.