wok-next annotate haserl-lua/description.txt @ rev 21727

created recipe for vbindiff
author Hans-G?nter Theisgen
date Sat Nov 21 14:32:44 2020 +0100 (2020-11-21)
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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
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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