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Re: Local CGI & Euphoria

• Posted by Irv <irv at ELLIJAY.COM> Jun 01, 1998
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At 01:41 PM 5/30/98 EDT, Buddy Hyllberg  wrote:

>I've been tinkering around with PERL & CGI lately, and I know that
>Euphoria would be great for CGI too. So I went to work trying to get a
>HTTP server to work locally, so I could use CGI scripting with Euphoria.
>I setup the WinHttpd package, along with a TCP/IP package
...

Buddy:

See my Euphoria CGI tutorial (such as it is) on my web page.
It answers your questions below - with sample programs and
all. http://www.mindspring.com/~mountains

Regards,

Irv


>The HTTP server worked, but just stayed idle & wouldn't do anything.
>The way I understand that CGI works is that to the script, the client is
>STDOUT & the script is STDIN (and that's how the post method works, by
>putting input in STDIN to the script instead of in a query string).
>
>
>               <---STDIN----
>script (server)              client (browser)
>               ---STDOUT--->
>
>
>So my questions are:
>
>        1. is there a way to redirect STDIN & STDOUT globally?
>        2. can you make an HTTP server work locally?
>        3. do you have to somehow enable TCP/IP locally for it to
>           work?
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