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- Writing CGI programs with Moscow ML mosml/examples/cgi/README
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-
- This directory contains two examples of using Moscow ML for writing
- CGI scripts:
-
- 1. A simple HTML form and the corresponding CGI program;
- see README1
-
- 2. Form-based file upload and the corresponding CGI program;
- see README2
-
- Moreover, there is a script which displays all the data passed to the
- CGI script by the webserver. It does so by formatting an HTML
- document containing the data, and returning it to the invoking browser
- for display. That CGI program is called testcgi.sml.
-
- WARNING: A CGI program is a program which runs on your server at the
- request of a remote user, and with input supplied by that user.
-
- Hence, regardless whether the CGI program is written in ML, Scheme,
- Perl, C, or COBOL, you should:
-
- * beware that the permissions of the CGI programs are suitably
- restricted; (these are usually controlled by the setup of httpd,
- the webserver)
- * consider what resources remote users may consume (cpu time,
- computer memory, disk space, net bandwidth, ...)
- * never leave experimental and half-baked CGI programs lying around
- in publicly accessible cgi-bin directories, as they may have
- security holes.
-
- Use Mosmlcgi at your own risk. While we believe that ML, with static
- type checking and automatic memory management, is a superior tool for
- writing CGI programs, we accept no responsibility for problems caused
- by the use of this software.
-
- Peter Sestoft (sestoft@dina.kvl.dk) 1997-05-07
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