RE: How to trigger on a CGI arg upon catalog entry?

[Dan Busarow <dan@dpcsys.com>]

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On Tue, 11 May 1999, Thompson-Jordan wrote:
> > ******    message to minivend-users from Dan Busarow
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> >
> > On Mon, 10 May 1999, Joe Mazz wrote:
> > > I have read the Minivend docs many times, but I can't figure
> > out how the optional input
> > > "arg" works. The problem is simply that I want to trigger
> > different  discounts
> > > and display options by conditioning on the value of one or
> > more CGI parameters
> > > (such as a user name and password) sent to the catalog entry
> > link program.
> > > Since the CGI link program uses a session ID and an optional
> > "arg" separated by
> > > a semi-colon, can one add standard CGI name/value pairs after
> > these in a GET
> > > as follows: <A
> > HREF="http://mysite.com/cgi-bin/cat/index?discount=5&password=HGF23s">,
> > > where cat is my link program, and index is the entry catalog page,
> 
> I'm not sure I really understand the question. To pass an arg to a page
> you put <a href="[area href="mypage" arg="myarg"]"> on the source page and
> [data session arg] of the target page. I wouldn't put a password on the
> URL line for all to see. Put it in a scratch variable and then use it on
> the target page based on the setting of arg.

We use these for links from non-Minivend pages.  I just send simple
values instead of CGI name/value pairs.

Dan
> 
> Christopher Thompson
> 
> 
> >
> > I don't know the answer but you should be able to find out
> > easily.  Create
> > a test page, test.html :), containing
> >
> > <h2>
> > [perl]
> > $arg = tag_data('session', 'arg');
> > return $arg;
> > [/perl]
> > </h2>
> >
> > And see what the page displayes when you pass it various arguments.
> > My *guess* is that you'll need to decode the arg/value pairs yourself.
> >
> > Dan
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