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- mingmengtou at use.startmail.com
@ Thu, 01 Apr 2021 12:35 +0100
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Hi, where might i find help/docs/faq on gemini cgi? For html i am using:
echo "Content-type: text/html"
echo ""
[rest of script]
I have not found information for starting a cgi script output for gemini.
Thank you for any assistance.
Cheers
Neil
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- Omar Polo <op at omarpolo.com>
@ Thu, 01 Apr 2021 14:33 +0200
In reply to mingmengtou at use.startmail.com
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mingmengtou@use.startmail.com writes:
Hi, where might i find help/docs/faq on gemini cgi? For html i am using:
#!/bin/bash
echo "Content-type: text/html"
echo ""
[rest of script]
I have not found information for starting a cgi script output for gemini.
Thank you for any assistance.
Cheers
Neil
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"
but check the documentation of your server of choice (and also the
protocol specification.)
Cheers,
Omar Polo
[0]: At least with gmid, GLV-1.12556 and (to some extent) vger; don't
know what other servers do.
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- mingmengtou at use.startmail.com
@ Thu, 01 Apr 2021 18:36 +0100
In 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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