Writing Get Scripts

Instructions

• You get your arguments on the command line.
• You must unescape the arguments yourself.
• The server gives you information about itself in the environment
• Your output must begin with a header

All of these examples come with the distribution of NCSA httpd, in the htbin directory.

For an example of using GET scripts to serve and respond to HTML <ISINDEX> documents, see the source for calendar.

For an example of using GET scripts to serve and respond to HTML form, see the source for the Jimmy John's form. For a simpler example, see the source for the query program.

Writing POST scripts

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