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"Mark Jacobs" <markj atty critical dotty co dotty uk> wrote in message
news:413f3653$1@newsgroups.borland.com...

> Can you POST from a browser on a PC to a
> server app on the same PC ?

Yes.  POST vs. GET is nothing more then how the data is formatted and read
when transmitted, but it is still just a single socket connection, there is
nothing overly special about it.

> Does loopback IP addresses come into this?

Of course.  But it has nothing to do with GET vs. POST.  The loopback is
just a means of connecting back to the same machine, you should be using it
in either case.

> I can get as far as the CGI program starting up, but there is no
> environment variables or STDIN set up to allow it run normally.

Then please show your actual code because you are not setting it up
properly.  CGI programs are just executables (usually console apps) that web
servers spawn when needed.  They read from and write to the normal
STDIN/STDOUT that all applications have.  The only difference is that the
web servers can control what the STDIN/STDOUT actually are.  It sounds like
you are not doing that part correctly, if at all.


Gambit