The CGI Gateway Applet
This topic is divided into the following sections:

For more general information on data access and how it is handled with eSuite applets, refer to the "eSuite and Data Access" topic.

Overview of the CGI Gateway applet

The CGI Gateway applet does the following: Use this this applet if your installation will use CGI-compliant server programs, such as HTML fill-in-form processors.

Data is read from the InfoBus according to a description supplied to the applet via HTML parameters. The description contains the names of the data sets to watch for or, alternately, lists the actual data. Data returned from the server is presented to the InfoBus or, optionally, displayed as HTML in the browser.

For more information on related subclasses of the CGI Gateway applet, refer to the following topics:

CGI Gateway Applet Parameter Tags

The following parameter (PARAM) tags are used for configuring and programming the CGI Gateway applet via HTML:

ServerURL PARAM tag
UserInterface PARAM tag
SubmitButton PARAM tag
URLEncode PARAM tag
Debug PARAM tag
OutputFormat PARAM tag
OutputDataSet PARAM tag
InputType PARAM tag
InputName PARAM tag
InputValue PARAM tag
InputParameters PARAM tag

CGI Gateway Applet Properties

The following applet properties are available for programming the CGI Gateway applet via JavaScript:

buttonlabel property
debug property
OutputDataSetName property
outputFormat property
parameterString property
userInterface property
URL property
URLencode property

CGI Gateway Applet Methods

The following applet methods are available for programming the CGI Gateway applet via JavaScript:

cancelPost method
submit method