merche.exe

is our inhouse version of the asphttp.dll which also allows for https requests under IIS 4.0

Calling convention:

http://<url>/<path>/merch.exe?<key>=<value>[<key>=<value>...]

Keys

Values

must be encoded for http. Spaces are replaced with plus signs, other non-alphanumerics replaced with thier hex value preceeded with a percent sign. For example: "James Newton" becomes "James+Newton", "last_name" becomes "last%5Fname". Some exceptions can, but probably should not, be made such as using periods without conversion to %2E.

Examples:

Get aol homepage:

http://www.mipsdla.com/cgi-bin/merch.exe?Url=www.aol.com&secure=0&Doc=

displays default settings, only for testing

http://www.mipsdla.com/cgi-bin/merch.exe?Echo=1

displays parameters (www.aol.com, non-secure, etc...), only for testing:

http://www.mipsdla.com/cgi-bin/merch.exe?Url=www.aol.com&secure=0&Doc=&Echo=1