Thanks to Christopher Williams the discussion goes on about CGI. - geomyidae - A small C-based gopherd.
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DIR commit 1fe0e4e9026fac8fad295deec2b580e611372a29
DIR parent 25358c41bcecda71584b0fbc431e19a1f5d05497
HTML Author: Christoph Lohmann <20h@r-36.net>
Date: Sun, 15 Jun 2025 07:34:17 +0200
Thanks to Christopher Williams the discussion goes on about CGI.
See the change. I added reference for future generations about the
variables, where they come from and why some environment variable is
included. There is even space for future new variables, as the CGI RFC
allows us.
Diffstat:
M ind.c | 22 +++++++++++++++++++++-
1 file changed, 21 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
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DIR diff --git a/ind.c b/ind.c
@@ -575,12 +575,32 @@ setcgienviron(char *file, char *path, char *port, char *base, char *args,
setenv("SERVER_SOFTWARE", "geomyidae", 1);
/* GOPHER-specific variables */
+ /* This is allowed by RFC3875 */
setenv("GOPHER_SELECTOR", sel, 1);
setenv("GOPHER_REQUEST", sel, 1);
setenv("GOPHER_SEARCH", sear, 1);
+ setenv("GOPHER_SCRIPT_FILENAME", path, 1);
+ setenv("GOPHER_DOCUMENT_ROOT", base, 1);
+
/* legacy compatibility */
- setenv("SEARCHREQUEST", sear, 1);
+ /* Gopher stuff should begin with GOPHER_ by RFC3875 */
+ /* See: https://boston.conman.org/2020/01/06.1 */
setenv("SCRIPT_FILENAME", path, 1);
+ /* Bucktooth compatibility */
+ setenv("SELECTOR", sel, 1);
+ /* Motsognir compatibility */
+ setenv("QUERY_STRING_SEARCH", sear, 1);
+ setenv("QUERY_STRING_URL", sear, 1);
+ /* Gophernicus */
+ setenv("SEARCHREQUEST", sear, 1);
+ /*
+ * TODO Do we need those? Does anyone use those?
+ * COLUMNS, DOCUMENT_ROOT, GOPHER_CHARSET, GOPHER_FILETYPE,
+ * GOPHER_REFERER, HTTP_ACCEPT_CHARSET, HTTP_REFERER, LOCAL_ADDR,
+ * PATH, REQUEST, SERVER_ARCH, SERVER_CODENAME,
+ * SERVER_DESCRIPTION, SERVER_TLS_PORT, SERVER_VERSION,
+ * SESSION_ID, TLS
+ */
/* Make PHP happy. */
setenv("REDIRECT_STATUS", "", 1);