CGI and client certificate, or do we need a CGI spec

[Remco]

2020/11/30 05:33, Sean Conner:

> It was thus said that the Great René Wagner once stated:
>> I totally agree that we need a definition of what information has to be
>> passed to a CGI script by the server. Adjust scripts to honor specific
>> server implementations is a no-go.
>
>   I used RFC-3875 for the basis of my CGI support.  It defines the following
> variables to be passed to the script.
>>snip<<
>   I also define some TLS variables, but those are under discussion elsewhere
> on this thread.  These (the TLS and GEMINI variables) can be described in a
> companion document, but the base I think should be RFC-3875.  It fits quite
> well to Gemini.

Thanks for the explanation!  I'm considering adding some extra headers
to nudge closer to the spec but I still feel CGI is too HTTP focused to
just "fully" adapt it and having a clearly defined subset could be
helpful for people building servers.

Cheers,
R.