Hi Cameron,
I'm trying your advice.
I must put the shells into cgi-bin directory or is not important.
Thanks
> On Mon, Jan 29, 2001 at 04:19:51PM +0100, Stefano Passarella
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> | I have a shell ( grep and many echo command) , which prints in the
> | stdout the HTML tabs. It works well, if it runs as comman ('shell_name
> | $1').
> |
> | I would use it via WWW. I have readen that I can use CGI and I get
> | some informations from cgi.resourceindex.org. Unfortunately, I have
> | found only one example.
>
> Shell works just fine for many simple CGIs, and also for some complex
> CGIs if you have the right tools. The main thing you need to remember
> is that a web page (i.e. the output of your shell script) is a MIME
> document, so there are headers denoting its type.
>
> For example:
>
> echo Content-Type: text/html
> echo
> echo '<H1>Here is some HTML</H1>'
>
> or
>
> echo Content-Type: text/plain
> echo
> echo 'This is plain text.'
> echo 'See how the < angle brackets > dont do anything?'
>
> or
>
> echo Content-Type: application/octet-stream
> echo
> cat some-binary-file-the-user-will-download
>
> Another thing is that the web server must know that these scripts are
> CGI scripts and not mere data files. On many servers it is enough to
> have the script's extension be ".cgi". The #! line will arrange for the
> right interpreter to run the script. Thus:
>
> % cat myscript.cgi
> #!/bin/sh
> echo Content-Type: text/html
> echo
> echo '<H1>Here is some HTML</H1>'
>
> The script (like all scripts) must be be public readable (so the
> interpreter - /bin/sh - can open it) and executable (so the OS doesn't
> refuse to treat it as executable):
>
> % chmod 755 myscript.cgi
>
> If your script takes requests, like:
>
> http://some.where.com/.../myscript.cgi?X=1&Y=2
>
> then these are available in the environment variable $QUERY_STRING,
> which I routinely decode into normal shell variables with
> query_string2sh:
>
> http://www.zipworld.com.au/~cs/scripts/query_string2sh
>
> which also needs hexify:
>
> http://www.zipworld.com.au/~cs/scripts/hexify
>
> You use it like this:
>
> eval "`query_string2sh`"
> echo "X is $PARAM_X"
> echo "Y is $PARAM_Y"
>
> (It stuffs PARAM_ onto the front of the variable names so that it doesn't
> trash your normal variables).
> --
> Cameron Simpson, DoD#743 [EMAIL PROTECTED]
http://www.zip.com.au/~cs/
>
> Carpe Datum - John Sloan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>
>
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