CSWS - CGI question

[Willem Grooters]

Martin,

Authentication is by mod_auth_openvms only, using BASIC identification and requiring a valid user - as in the manual. So quite basic indeed - but it works.

But I think your single remark is the perhaps clue:

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As for the "backdoor" the symbol is created by the server for the thread executing the script.

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so it would be tread-specific and SHOW SYMBOL might miss it; but since symbol UIC is created within the script it will show up and the others don't. Could that be the case?

[Richard Barry · Accepted solution]

I don't recall the exact details, but this unexpected behavior has to do with DCL's symbol scoping rules and "SHOW SYMBOL *".

A wildcard DCL symbol search is unable to locate the CGI environment symbols defined by Apache's CGI setup procedure, but it is able to locate them using explicit searches.

The bottom line is that the symbols are defined, but DCL's "SHOW SYMBOL *" command is unable to list them.