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annotate haserl-lua/description.txt @ rev 18450
perl-datetime and others: update to perl datetime which required a bunch of other deps to also be updated
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Nathan Neulinger <nneul@neulinger.org> |
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Sun Sep 27 19:52:03 2015 +0000 (2015-09-27) |
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1 haserl (Html And Shell Embedded Runtime Language) is a cgi program that runs
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2 interpreted scripts. It combines three elements into a single CGI interpreter:
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4 1. It parses POST and GET requests, placing form-elements as name=value pairs
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5 into the environment for the CGI script to use. It is similar to uncgi
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6 (http://www.midwinter.com/~koreth/uncgi.html) in this respect
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8 2. It prints the contents of the script as html, and conditionally interpets
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9 text within <% ... %> as shell script. In this case haserl scripts are like
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10 a poor-man's version of PHP (http://www.php.net)
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12 3. It is very small, and so can be used in embedded environments
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