[tech]: looking for cgi help/documentation/faq or similar

[Omar Polo]

mingmengtou@use.startmail.com writes:

> Hi, where might i find help/docs/faq on gemini cgi? For html i am using:
> #!/bin/bash
> echo "Content-type: text/html"
> echo ""
> [rest of script]
>
> I have not found information for starting a cgi script output for gemini.
> Thank you for any assistance.
> Cheers
> Neil

There are some difference on how Gemini servers implements CGI.
Usually[0] they just execute your script with a bunch of environment
variable set, and expect you to handle the transaction.  For instance, a
simple "hello world"-tier script could be:

	#!/bin/sh
	printf "20 text/gemini\r\n"
	echo "# Hello Gemini"

but check the documentation of your server of choice (and also the
protocol specification.)

Cheers,

Omar Polo

[0]: At least with gmid, GLV-1.12556 and (to some extent) vger; don't
     know what other servers do.