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Cgi is the common gateway interface, used for interactive webpages.

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What is the difference between a proxy server and a gateway server?

From Proxy server on Wikipedia: A proxy server may reside on the user's local computer, or at any point between the user's computer and destination servers on the Internet. A proxy server that passes unmodified requests and responses is usually…
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Can I detect when a client has disconnected from a CGI?

I have a rather resource intensive CGI that takes quite a long time to start sending data. We've seen quite a few cases where impatient people reload a couple of times, which then triggers additional runs of the CGI to be loaded, or cases where the…
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Git Pull on CGI and Command Line have different results

I have an "after push" webhook on GitHub that calls a CGI script to update a Jekyll website. The script: user@server [~/_repo]# cat cgi-bin/githook.cgi #!/bin/bash echo Content-type: text/plain echo if [ -z "$HOME" ] ;…
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Apache not calling the Smart HTTP CGI

I'm setting up a git server with git-http-backend and Smart HTTP but Apache doesn't seem to be calling the Smart HTTP CGI: $ curl http://localhost/repo/myproject.git/info/refs?service=git-receive-pack 2ddf56592a0f55456b8c42dc9f2cb9289f083f53 …
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How do I properly disable cgi scripts e.g. guestbook.cgi on WHM

After a PCI scan identified guestbook.cgi as a risk, I want to disable the cgi-scripts installed by WHM (v11, running on CentOS5). I would like to do this "properly" using the WHM Web interface if possible (so this configuration survives an update…
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Windows Apache 2.2 painfully slow executing CGI

I've recently set up Apache 2.2 and git on one of our Windows XP PCs for gitweb access using the setup at https://git.wiki.kernel.org/index.php/MSysGit:GitWeb As noted on the wiki, the only version of Perl that seems to work with gitweb the way it…
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Generate TFTP Content on the fly?

I know this isn't the purpose of TFTP, but I'm working in an environment where a lot of different types of devices pull provisioning info from a TFTP server. What I'm developing is a provisioning system that tracks and maintains device…
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Apache 2.2 CGI timeout configuration

I have a default Apache 2.2 system setup with a Perl CGI script directory configured like so: ScriptAlias /jarvis/ "/opt/jarvis/cgi-bin/" Nothing fancy in here except one of my scripts takes over 10 minutes to process, and due to various reasons,…
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How to get input content from GET or POST request in CGI program (via apache)?

I'm studying making a CGI program. Now I can print text what I want. But how can I get GET or POST input from CGI program? (such as query-string or post-body)
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Force all Perl scripts to run with `use strict`

I just went through a large legacy Perl web application (built using cgi-lib.pl and running as CGI with Apache HTTPD) and updated every script to use strict;, fixing a lot of small bugs along the way. Now this is done, I want to prevent people from…
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mod_rewrite: Rewriting / to cgi script

I have a vhost in which I would like to rewrite / to something like /cgi-bin/script?123. I thought something like this would work, but this rewrites to "/index.html/ somehow. RewriteEngine On RewriteRule ^/$ /cgi-bin/script.cgi?123 [L] How can you…
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cgit only works on command line, but not with nginx

Like many times, I used a virtual machine to test something. This is the reason why the configuration is maybe a bit dirty. I just try to get cgit running with nginx. I created a directory /git (owner: www-data:www-data) which contains a git…
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What's the safest way to kick off a root-level process via cgi on an Apache server?

The problem: I have a script that runs periodically via a cron job as root, but I want to give people a way to kick it off asynchronously too, via a webpage. (The script will be written to ensure it doesn't run overlapping instances or such.) I…
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Suexec, group-writeable files

I am running an Apache server with Suexec. However, I get an internal server error if I try to execute a CGI script that is group-writeable (if I chmod g-w , the script runs fine) However, I want the file to be group-writeable. SuPHP has a config…
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Apache: Include Virtual SSI not working for CGI script

I have the following Server Side Includes within an .html file called test.html... When I view test.html live in my browser, myFile.html is being…
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