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[ANN] [users] Two new capsules and a server

Omar Polo op at omarpolo.com

Mon Feb 1 13:51:42 GMT 2021

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Sean Conner <sean at conman.org> writes:

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You don't split the query. You pass it in, as is, from the request, in

QUERY_STRING. Play around with:

gemini://gemini.conman.org/cgi

It will show all the variables, command line arguments and a breakdown of

the query string.

Thanks for providing that page. I played a bit with it while fixing myCGI implementation and now I believe gmid behaves just like GLV-1.12556does (minus the argument list). I have to do some changes in order toaccess the raw query string when I'm about to execute the CGI script.

One thing that your page doesn't show are the TLS-related environmentvariables. I remember you wrote about them in a previous message onthis list.

I built a similar page, hosted at

gemini://gemini.omarpolo.com/cgi/env

Of course I'd like to have a complete CGI support, and not something

merely closer, so I'll take some time to read how other servers are

handling them, starting from your GLV-1.12556.

Warning about my server---the CGI implementation also allows one to run

CGI scripts for a webserver (and Apache in particular) so be aware of that.

I'd like too, as pointed by John Cowan, to have a best-practices or a

companion specification for CGI on Gemini, as RFC3875 seems quite

HTTP-specific, but I don't think I'm the most qualified to write one :D

It's not as HTTP-specific as it may seem---the only bit where it's an

issue is the REQUEST_METHOD. My server sets it to "" (as there is no method

for Gemini, and what I think it should be, given RFC-3875 makes it

mandatory); others set it to "GET". Aside from that, it's quite generic.

-spc

Right, skimming through it gave me the wrong impression. That arevarious places were HTTP is blatantly assumed (just grep 404), butotherwise it seems easily applicable to Gemini.

Thanks