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[server question] What can be done with server side scripting?

Frank Jüdes Frank.Juedes at linux4specialists.com

Sun Jun 6 05:38:51 BST 2021

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I assume you mean the Gemini equivalent of CGI scripts?

Well you can do almost the same things that you can do with CGI in the WWW! - Just a little less fancier and more focused on content than visual effects. Some examples from my server:

* Linux man-pages and Perl documentation: gemini://h2903872.stratoserver.net/OnlineDoc.gmi * Ascii-"Art" with the figlet and the boxes program and other tools: gemini://h2903872.stratoserver.net/DevToolBox.gmi * You can capture the output of any command line tool and print it as a gmi document, see my lab-page: gemini://h2903872.stratoserver.net/CGI-test.gmi

I hope that helps.

Best regards from Charleston (WV), Frank/2

On 2021-06-04 22:39, Andrew Singleton wrote:

I suppose I should come up with a use case I want and then ask if they

can be done we I really don't feel in my depth on technical aspects.

I just know serve scripts are possible, but I don't know what is

realistically doable and it of that what actually works within the

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