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annotate haserl-lua/description.txt @ rev 8673
Up: tazwok-experimental to 0.0.6.6.
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Christopher Rogers <slaxemulator@gmail.com> |
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Wed Feb 16 18:43:46 2011 +0000 (2011-02-16) |
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1 haserl (Html And Shell Embedded Runtime Language) is a cgi
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2 program that runs interpreted scripts. It combines three
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3 elements into a single CGI interpreter:
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5 1. It parses POST and GET requests, placing form-elements as name=value
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6 pairs into the environment for the CGI script to use. It is similar
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7 to uncgi (http://www.midwinter.com/~koreth/uncgi.html) in this respect
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9 2. It prints the contents of the script as html, and conditionally
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10 interpets text within <% ... %> as shell script. In this case haserl
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11 scripts are like a poor-man's version of PHP (http://www.php.net)
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13 3. It is very small, and so can be used in embedded environments |