From: Rob McCool <robm@netscape.com>
Newsgroups: netscape.devs-nsapi
Subject: Re: Calling CGI from NSAPI
Date: Wed, 23 Oct 1996 18:58:26 -0700

Raghavan wrote:
> Is there a way to call a CGI script from NSAPI ?. The NSAPI would be
> used to capture user authentication info and pass the info to a CGI
> script to handle the actual authentication.
> 
> Any thoughts would be appreciated.

You can change the path in rq->vars to your CGI program, create a new
pblock with fn=send-cgi in it, and then call func_exec, but if you do
that, the CGI output will be sent to the client. You can get around that
problem, but it might be easier just to execute the program yourself
using fork/exec or CreateProcess.
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