Bash/CGI parsing of URI args separated by whitespaces

args-between-whitespaces.sh

#!/bin/bash

echo "Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8" && echo

IFS='?' read -ra url_parts <<< "$REQUEST_URI"

# Extract the query string from the URL
query_string="${url_parts[1]}"

# URL-decode the query string
decoded_query_string=$(printf '%b' "${query_string//%/\\x}")

# Split the decoded query string into an array using space as delimiter
IFS=' ' read -ra query_params <<< "$decoded_query_string"

# Debug:
#echo "First element: ${query_params[0]}"
#echo "Second element: ${query_params[1]}"
#echo "Third element: ${query_params[2]}"