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open-vm-tools: missing deps
| author | Nathan Neulinger <nneul@neulinger.org> |
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| date | Sat Sep 19 03:36:38 2015 +0000 (2015-09-19) |
| parents | 30f642df947e |
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1 haserl (Html And Shell Embedded Runtime Language) is a cgi program that runs
2 interpreted scripts. It combines three elements into a single CGI interpreter:
4 1. It parses POST and GET requests, placing form-elements as name=value pairs
5 into the environment for the CGI script to use. It is similar to uncgi
6 (http://www.midwinter.com/~koreth/uncgi.html) in this respect
8 2. It prints the contents of the script as html, and conditionally interpets
9 text within <% ... %> as shell script. In this case haserl scripts are like
10 a poor-man's version of PHP (http://www.php.net)
12 3. It is very small, and so can be used in embedded environments