Clarify the »arguments« argument to [d]cgi scripts. - geomyidae - A small C-based gopherd.
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DIR commit 59985412850ecb1837a7518b7de08ed790c06e03
DIR parent 621a10e4ba30b33ef351d52ac5ff37b55458d96b
HTML Author: Christoph Lohmann <20h@r-36.net>
Date: Thu, 24 Nov 2016 22:27:42 +0100
Clarify the »arguments« argument to [d]cgi scripts.
Diffstat:
M geomyidae.8 | 11 ++++++-----
1 file changed, 6 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-)
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DIR diff --git a/geomyidae.8 b/geomyidae.8
@@ -297,7 +297,7 @@ Both .cgi and .dcgi scripts have the same argument call structure (as seen by ge
where
.Pp
.D1 search = query string (type 7) or Qo Qc (type 0)
-.D1 arguments = Qo Qc
+.D1 arguments = string after Qo ? Qc in the path or Qo Qc
.D1 host = server's hostname ("localhost" by default)
.D1 port = server's port ("70" by default)
.Pp
@@ -333,23 +333,24 @@ ex. hello.cgi - standard CGI with query
#!/bin/sh
# hello.cgi - welcome user
NAME=$1
+HOSTNAME=$2
echo ""
-echo Hello $NAME - welcome to Frog.bog
+echo Hello $NAME - welcome to $HOSTNAME
exit 0
.Ed
.
.Pp
Call the above with the following index.gph entry:
.Pp
-.D1 [7|Hello You - Please enter your name|/hello.cgi?|frog.bog|70]
+.D1 [7|Hello You - Please enter your name|/hello.cgi?FROG.bog|frog.bog|70]
.
.Pp
And do a simple
.Xr snarf 1
query (note the inserted TAB):
.Pp
-.D1 % snarf Qo gopher://frog.bog/7/hello.cgi?[TAB]Christoph Qc -
-.D1 Hello Christoph - welcome to Frog.bog
+.D1 % snarf Qo gopher://frog.bog/7/hello.cgi?FROG.bog[TAB]Christoph Qc -
+.D1 Hello Christoph - welcome to FROG.bog
.
.Pp
Dynamic CGI entries are similar to above except that the script