First Step

• How user got here is irrelevant!

• First URL used:

http://[{web-server}]/cgi-bin/db2www[.exe]

/{macro-file}/{input}[?name=val&…]

• Web server starts db2www cgi-bin program

• db2www program:

  • uses macro-file to create HTML form
  • sends HTML form back to the user

• User fills out HTML form containing the information which will drive the SQL query

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