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

Omar Polo op at omarpolo.com

Thu Apr 1 13:33:16 BST 2021

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mingmengtou at 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 environmentvariable set, and expect you to handle the transaction. For instance, asimple "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 theprotocol specification.)

Cheers,

Omar Polo

[0]: At least with gmid, GLV-1.12556 and (to some extent) vger; don't know what other servers do.