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Re: lynx-dev TRST & lynxcgi
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Philip Webb |
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Re: lynx-dev TRST & lynxcgi |
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Wed, 10 Nov 1999 06:17:10 -0500 (EST) |
991109 Henry Nelson wrote:
> Lynxcgi is a powerful tool. The main reason Lynx is being loaded up
> with pure garbage and trying to emulate MSIE and WORD is
> the gross misunderstanding that lynxcgi, lynxprog and lynxexec
> are crutches of some kind. it's truly the other way around.
> MSIE and WORD can't touch a candle to Lynx because they don't have them.
so it's all the more important that they be documented properly, yes?
> Start with basics. Here is a script that gives a bare bones message,
> ie feeds Lynx an html document:
> #!/bin/csh -f
> echo "Content-type: text/html"
> echo ""
> echo "<html><head><title>CGI test</title></head><body>"
> echo "<h1>Good morning\!</h1></body></html>"
> Didn't work? Did you remember to change the permission: % chmod 755?
> Is the path to the script complete and correct?
> did you escape the "!"? Is there really a "/bin/csh"?
> Once the script itself is working, just put a link in some html page,
> eg a bookmark page: lynxcgi://home/lamatia/.lynx/lynxcgi/echotest.ch
> Using lynx compiled with --enable-cgi-links
> hit return on that link, and you'll get the display:
> CGI test
>
> Good morning!
that is indeed what happens ...
> No need, and preferred if you DON'T, edit userdefs.h or lynx.cfg.
> Simply replace "echotest.ch" with any _working_ cgi.
> Compile a program you've written in c for even greater speed and power.
no, not just any program: neither you nor Supported URLs tell the user
how to get the script to process a file from Lynx.
your example above has no input from Lynx or from any file;
the miniscule documentation available doesn't mention the possibility,
but does warn users not to use lynxcgi outside strict limits.
i don't believe lynxcgi is what is neede for my purpose:
if you still think so, read my other message (to be sent next)
& tell me clearly how to do it that way, rather than the way i've found.
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- Re: lynx-dev TRST & lynxcgi, Henry Nelson, 1999/11/08
- Re: lynx-dev TRST & lynxcgi, Klaus Weide, 1999/11/09
- Re: lynx-dev TRST & lynxcgi,
Philip Webb <=
- Re: lynx-dev TRST & lynxcgi, Klaus Weide, 1999/11/10
- Re: lynx-dev TRST : see LHFB, Philip Webb, 1999/11/11
- Re: lynx-dev TRST : see LHFB, Klaus Weide, 1999/11/11
- Re: lynx-dev TRST : see LHFB, Klaus Weide, 1999/11/11
- Re: lynx-dev TRST : see LHFB, Philip Webb, 1999/11/11
- Re: lynx-dev TRST : see LHFB, Klaus Weide, 1999/11/13
- Re: lynx-dev TRST : see LHFB, Philip Webb, 1999/11/13
- Re: lynx-dev TRST : see LHFB, Klaus Weide, 1999/11/13
- Re: lynx-dev TRST : see LHFB, Philip Webb, 1999/11/13
- Re: lynx-dev TRST : see LHFB, Klaus Weide, 1999/11/17