[Mapserver-users] Passing CGI variables

[David Mitchell]

Dharani,

REQUEST_METHOD and QUERY_STRING are environment variables, not 
parameters to the application. Try this instead:

C:\TEST>set "REQUEST_METHOD=GET"
C:\TEST>set "QUERY_STRING=map=c:\....."
C:\TEST>mapserv_40.exe

David

Dharani Babu wrote:
> Hi David
>   Thanks . I moved all the contents of 
> C:/ms4w/apache/cgi-bin/mapserv_40.exe and all the other dlls into a 
> folder C:/test/ mapserv.exe . Ok . Now I passed the command paramaters 
> like this
> C:\TEST>mapserv_40.exe "REQUEST_METHOD = GET" 
> "QUERY_STRING=map=C%3A%2Fms4w%2Fapache%2Fhtdocs%2Fdemof%2Frock_pic.map&layer=tigerdata&zoomdir=1&zoomsize=2&progra 
> 
> m=%2Fcgi-bin%2Fmapserv_40.exe&map_web_imagepath=C%3A%2Fms4w%2Fapache%2Fhtdocs%2Ftemp_rm6%2F&map_web_imageurl=%2Ftemp_rm6%2F" 
> 
> 
> I Got the following error .
> This script can only be used to decode form results and
> should be initiated as a CGI process via a httpd server.
> I hope I am missing the syntax . I tried other combinations also still 
> missing.pls tell me the syntax of it .
> with regard and thanks
> dharani
> 
>> From: David Mitchell <david.mitchell at telogis.com>
>> To: Dharani Babu <dharanibabus at hotmail.com>
>> CC: mapserver-users at lists.gis.umn.edu
>> Subject: Re: [Mapserver-users] Passing CGI variables
>> Date: Fri, 16 Apr 2004 13:43:08 +1200
>>
>> Dharani,
>>
>> If you want you can call mapserv directly as you wish but you have to 
>> first set the QUERY_STRING and REQUEST_METHOD environment variables to 
>> trick it into thinking it is being accessed through IIS:
>>
>> REQUEST_METHOD=GET
>> QUERY_STRING="zoomdir=1&zoomsize=2..."
>> C:/ms4w/apache/cgi-bin/mapserv_40.exe
>>
>> That is all that IIS does anyway (not strictly true, IIS sets a few 
>> more variables and does a bit of house-keeping, but essentially the 
>> same). If your map has a template then the image will be in your temp 
>> folder and the std output of mapserv.exe will be the webpage (which 
>> you can throw away essentially).
>>
>> David
>>
>> Dharani Babu wrote:
>>
>>>
>>> Thanks Daniel - all
>>>   This helped me get a vb.net picture box based wrapper for the MS . 
>>> I have a question though .
>>> As you when we post the CGI variables we are in need of posting it in 
>>> the form of a html stream only--like
>>> "http://192.168.2.135/cgi-bin/mapserv_40.exe?zoomdir=1&zoomsize=2&" 
>>> etc . But is there any alternative so that I can pass it with
>>> "C:/ms4w/apache/cgi-bin/mapserv_40.exe?zoomdir=1&zoomsize=2&" ?
>>> But I know very well the map server exe works with Apache or IIS . 
>>> But I want to copy the map server exe and its associated dlls to a 
>>> location other then the cgi-bin or scripts . Is it possible ?
>>> Is there any way we can make MS exe to get the html stream and give 
>>> us the image in tmp folder WITHOUT  Apache or IIS ? I am trying to 
>>> get a soln by running dependency walker on ms exe and other trails 
>>> with spy tools . Still not yet solved .
>>> with regards and thanks in advance
>>> dharani
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>> From: Daniel Morissette <dmorissette at dmsolutions.ca>
>>>> To: Dharani Babu <dharanibabus at hotmail.com>
>>>> CC: mapserver-users at lists.gis.umn.edu
>>>> Subject: Re: [Mapserver-users] Passing CGI variables
>>>> Date: Sat, 10 Apr 2004 11:54:24 -0400
>>>>
>>>> Dharani Babu wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> 1)   I am trying to pass the CGI variables to the map server exe 
>>>>> without HTML submission .Thats I am trying to disassociate the 
>>>>> browser based rendering .Could any of you point to the direction ?I 
>>>>> have been able to pass the url thro a C# /VB.net web browser 
>>>>> control . But searching for an alternative .   I tried passing CGI 
>>>>> variables thro command prompt but got a message that " cgi 
>>>>> variables can be passed only via httpd " .
>>>>>
>>>>
>>>> You can call the mapserv.exe at the command prompt using
>>>>
>>>>   mapserv.exe "QUERY_STRING=map=/path/to/yourmap.map&mode=...&..."
>>>>
>>>> Daniel
>>>> -- 
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>>>>  DM Solutions Group              http://www.dmsolutions.ca/
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>>>>
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>>
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>> David Mitchell
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>> Telogis
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