wok-next annotate haserl/description.txt @ rev 18693

slitaz-icons-faenza: rename applications-science into applications-education (thanks llev)
author Aleksej Bobylev <al.bobylev@gmail.com>
date Sun Dec 13 22:37:22 2015 +0200 (2015-12-13)
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al@18116 1 haserl (Html And Shell Embedded Runtime Language) is a cgi program that runs
al@18116 2 interpreted scripts. It combines three elements into a single CGI interpreter:
milka@1134 3
al@18116 4 1. It parses POST and GET requests, placing form-elements as name=value pairs
al@18116 5 into the environment for the CGI script to use. It is similar to uncgi
al@18116 6 (http://www.midwinter.com/~koreth/uncgi.html) in this respect
milka@1134 7
al@18116 8 2. It prints the contents of the script as html, and conditionally interpets
al@18116 9 text within <% ... %> as shell script. In this case haserl scripts are like
al@18116 10 a poor-man's version of PHP (http://www.php.net)
milka@1134 11
al@18116 12 3. It is very small, and so can be used in embedded environments