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

[Frank Jüdes]

Hi Matthew,

nice job! some parts really do look similar to my perl-code - same problem generates similar programs…

I am able to read python-code, but have very little experience with the language. That "whitespace has a meaning" thing from the first version really kept me away…

My GGI-package goes a little further with automatic redirection:

 * if the variable QUERY_STRING is not empty, it will print a temporary
   re-direct with the content of tge query-string attached to the URL
   into the PATH-component (PATH_INFO) and exit.
 * This will change the url from for example:
   gemini://server.domain/cgi-bin/man?grep to
   gemini://server.domain/cgi-bin/man/grep, so that the next input can
   be requested from the client without overwriting the first value
 * All this happens transparent for the application without the
   developer to re-implement that re-direct in each program.

My gemini-capsule is not yet officially on-line, but you can find the GGI-package at gemini://h2903872.stratoserver.net/


On 2021-04-13 10:59, Matthew Ernisse wrote:
> On Mon, Apr 12, 2021 at 10:59:57PM -0400, Frank Jüdes said:
>> i am not sure if the author of the Molly-Brown server is reading this list,
>> i tried to sign up on tildegit.org, but they won't accept my e-mail address
>> there. I have created a perl-package to make the development of CGI programs
>> for the gemini-space somewhat easier for perl-programmers, especially the
>> handling of multiple parameters can be handled fully transparent for the
>> application.
>>
>> But that mechanism is based on the SCRIPT_NAME cgi-variable!
> In the hopes that you may find this useful, I have a light wrapper I use
> to write CGIs for Molly Brown in Python.  It has served me fairly well with
> fairly complex CGIs.
>
> Module:
> gemini://going-flying.com/git/cgi/gemini.git/tree/master/cgi-bin/gmicgi/__init__.py
>
> Some demo code:
> gemini://going-flying.com/git/cgi/gemini.git/tree/master/cgi-bin/test
>
> All the CGIs I have at the moment:
> gemini://going-flying.com/git/cgi/gemini.git/tree/master/cgi-bin/
>
> --Matt
>
> ---
> Matthew Ernisse
> matt@going-flying.com
> gemini://going-flying.com/
>