[Info-vax] HTTP and HTML File Upload Basics

[Phillip Helbig undress to reply]

In article <rmncp5$krr$1 at gioia.aioe.org>, =?UTF-8?Q?Arne_Vajh=c3=b8j?=
<arne at vajhoej.dk> writes: 

> On 10/20/2020 3:05 PM, Stephen Hoffman wrote:
> > On 2020-10-20 17:32:08 +0000, Phillip Helbig (undress to reply said:
> >> Does anyone have a basic DCL script which, when called as a script by 
> >> the web server, can upload a file from the browser machine to the server
> >> machine?
> > 
> > CGI doesn't get used for this. A CGI-based fetch as you're likely 
> > envisioning here would be routinely blocked network firewalls, among 
> > other details.
> 
> ????
> 
> I belive he is asking for:
> 
> browser---(POST of file)---web server---CGI script---disk file

Right (I think).

> Uploading to a directory not served by the web server 

Right.

> and use a download
> script to get it may be a good thing.

Not sure what that means.