Parse CGI OSAX

• Version: 1.2
• Author: Alex Powers and Mark Kriegsman
• Requirements: AppleScript
• Cost: $10 (shareware)
• Pros: quickly and easily parses search and POST arguments into variables
• Cons: none
• Remote location: <URL:http://marquis.tiac.net/software/parse-cgi.html>
• Tricks location: <URL:http://152.1.24.177/teaching/archives/parse-cgi-osax-12.hqx>

This is the quinessencial OSAX for WWW scripting on a Macintosh with AppleScript. With two simple commands (parse CGI arguments and CGI field) you can very quickly decode and parse the any search or POST arguments sent to a script. This script beats Decode URL and Tokenize since it essentially combines the functions of these OSAX into one and does it more efficiently.

Eric last edited this page on September 26, 1995. Please feel free to send comments.