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Re: [tech]: looking for cgi help/documentation/faq or similar

- mingmengtou at use.startmail.com

@ Thu, 01 Apr 2021 18:36 +0100

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Reply to Omar Polo <op at omarpolo.com>

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Omar,

Thank you for your help.

There are some difference on how Gemini servers implements CGI.

Usually[0] they just execute your script with a bunch of environment

variable set, and expect you to handle the transaction. For instance, a

simple "hello world"-tier script could be:

#!/bin/sh

printf "20 text/gemini\r\n"

echo "# Hello Gemini"

I can see that this would work.

but check the documentation of your server of choice (and also the

protocol specification.)

Cheers,

Omar Polo

I didn't notice that agate was static only - but problem solved: know the format and to check server.

[0]: At least with gmid, GLV-1.12556 and (to some extent) vger; don't

know what other servers do.

I'm probably going to go with GLV

Thanks Neil

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