CGI-BIN test page for WebLight

The idea behind the CGI (Common Gateway Interface) is to create the document at the same time as it is requested by the client. So the Web client sends a URL that points to an executable, and the standard output is send to the client as the web page to be displayed.

A CGI script may be written in C, GFAbasic, assembler or other compiler languages, or can be a batch file if the environment variable 'SHELL=' is set and the file extention is *.BAT. You must put all your CGI-Script in the sub-folder defined in setup menu.

This document use the program env-cgi for showing the environmentals variables available for programing. Note scripts are very flexible, as a drawback you need to be careful to not create security holes.

For more realistics samples , see also CGI Scripts samples

This is just a request for a CGI script with no extra path information and no query.

/cgi-bin/tools/env-cgi

This is a request for a script with extra path information, and no query.

/cgi-bin/tools/env-cgi/extra/path

This is a request for a script with no extra path information, and an ISINDEX query.

/cgi-bin/tools/env-cgi?query

This is a request for a script with extra path information as well as an ISINDEX query.

/cgi-bin/tools/env-cgi/extra/path?a+query

You'll need a browser which supports HTML forms for this example. Clicking the submit button will send a form request with no extra path information using the GET method.

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You'll need a browser which supports HTML forms for this example. Clicking the submit button will send an form request with no extra path information using the POST method.

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You'll need a browser which supports HTML forms for this example. Clicking the submit button will send an form request with extra path information of /foo using the POST method.

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Samples provided by NCSA.