Release 10.1A: OpenEdge Application Server:
Developing WebSpeed Applications

get-cgi-long

This function returns any CGI or other environment variables specific to a Web request as a LONGCHAR data type. This function serves as a wrapper for the GET-CGI-LONGCHAR-VALUE method of the WEB-CONTEXT system handle.

Location: web\method\cgiutils.i

Parameters:

INPUT p_name AS CHARACTER

The variable name. If the Unknown value (?) is specified, the return value is a list of variables.

Returns: LONGCHAR

Notes:

Most standard CGI and a number of HTTP environment variables are available as global variables. This function is only needed to access environment variables not defined in web\method\cgidefs.i.
INPUT/OUTPUT operations are not allowed with LONGCHAR variables. For example, the following code would fail:

{&OUT} vpath.

Examples:

DEFINE VARIABLE vpath AS LONGCHAR. vpath = get-cgi-long("PATH-INFO":U).

See also:

get-field

get-cgi

get-cookie