From: Martin Boese <boesemar@...>
Date: 2008-09-30T06:46:10+09:00
Subject: Re: ruby cgi, add params and redirect

You should use cookies (maybe with cgi session), or add the paramenters to the 
url, for example:

puts cgi.header('status' => 'REDIRECT', 
               'location' => 'offsite_script.cgi?new_param=new_value')


http://www.ruby-doc.org/core/classes/CGI/Session.html
http://www.ruby-doc.org/core/classes/CGI/Cookie.html


On Monday 29 September 2008 16:52:32 David Susco wrote:
> I'm looking for a way to add parameters to a cgi object and then
> redirect the user to another cgi script off site.
>
> -----
> require "cgi"
>
> cgi = CGI.new
>
> cgi.params['new_param'] = "new_value"
> ...
>
> cgi.header("status" => "302",
>            "location" => "offsite_script.cgi")
> -----
>
> I can add parameters no problem as above, but the offsite script isn't
> receiving the added parameters. Is this because the redirect is
> happening before the parameters are being added? Is there another way to
> do this?
>
> Thanks,
> Dave