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| author | Allan Pinto <allan316@gmail.com> |
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| date | Fri Jun 05 19:26:20 2009 +0000 (2009-06-05) |
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1 haserl (Html And Shell Embedded Runtime Language) is a cgi
2 program that runs interpreted scripts. It combines three
3 elements into a single CGI interpreter:
5 1. It parses POST and GET requests, placing form-elements as name=value
6 pairs into the environment for the CGI script to use. It is similar
7 to uncgi (http://www.midwinter.com/~koreth/uncgi.html) in this respect
9 2. It prints the contents of the script as html, and conditionally
10 interpets text within <% ... %> as shell script. In this case haserl
11 scripts are like a poor-man's version of PHP (http://www.php.net)
13 3. It is very small, and so can be used in embedded environments