JetForce vs. Molly Brown Server: CGI-variable SCRIPT_NAME is not present

[Omar Polo]

Frank Jüdes <Frank.Juedes@linux4specialists.com> writes:

> Hi Stephane,
>
> Thank you very much for the update. That leaves me with three options now:
>
> 1. Try again to install Pythron 3.7+ on my stubborn development machine
>    (Oracle Lunix 7…)
> 2. Learn go really quickly and fork the Molly Brown server - i will
>    call it »the sunken Molly Brown server« in that case
> 3. Write my own gemini server from scratch in perl
>
> It really looks like only Molly Brown and JetForce have a usable
> CGI-implementation. We should call it GGI, btw: Gemini Gateway
> Interface to distinguish it from CGI.

They're definitely not the only one: GLV-1.12556 and gmid (disclaimer:
I'm the author) have a complete CGI support.  GLV-1.12556 has even more
things, such as SGCI support; and you may want to count vger in that
list too, even it's a little limited in this regard.

Also, why reinvent the wheel and find another name when the CGI
specification, modulo one or two environment variables (REQUEST_METHOD -
and is debatable), maps well to Gemini?

> Best regards from Charleston (WV),
>      Frank/2
>
>
> On 2021-04-13 03:09, Alexis wrote:
>>
>> Stephane Bortzmeyer <stephane@sources.org> writes:
>>
>>> I did not find a public issue tracker for MollyBrown, and the one patch
>>> I sent to the author went unanswered.
>>
>> i.e. one you don't have to register for? Because otherwise:
>>
>>   https://tildegit.org/solderpunk/molly-brown/issues
>>
>> Still, yeah, Solderpunk isn't around much nowadays; i sent a patch
>> for the telem BBS in September last year, and i believe it's not yet
>> applied ....
>>
>> (i also submitted a couple of patches for Elpher seven months ago,
>> adding link numbering, but Elpher's maintainer doesn't seem to be
>> active either.)
>>
>>
>> Alexis.