Mailing List Archive: CGI??? (fwd)

Who was working on this? Formalizing CGI, and perhaps advancing it,
would seem to be an important thing.

Brian

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Date: Fri, 3 Nov 95 09:33:02 PST
From: Mike Meyer <mwm@contessa.phone.net>
To: http-wg%cuckoo.hpl.hp.com@hplb.hpl.hp.com
Subject: CGI???

I've seen a number of requests for a more formal specification for CGI
than <URL:http://hoohoo.ncsa.uiuc.edu/cgi/>.

This leads to the following questions:

1) Is CGI appropriate for an RFC? If not, what standards group would
it belong to?

2) If it's appropriate for an RFC, is this this WG it would belong to?
If not, which does it belong to?

3) Is anyone working on such a thing now?

Thanx,
<mike

> Who was working on this? Formalizing CGI, and perhaps advancing it,
> would seem to be an important thing.
>
> Brian
>
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> brian@organic.com brian@hyperreal.com http://www.[hyperreal,organic].com/
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> Date: Fri, 3 Nov 95 09:33:02 PST
> From: Mike Meyer <mwm@contessa.phone.net>
> To: http-wg%cuckoo.hpl.hp.com@hplb.hpl.hp.com
> Subject: CGI???
>
> I've seen a number of requests for a more formal specification for CGI
> than <URL:http://hoohoo.ncsa.uiuc.edu/cgi/>.
>
> This leads to the following questions:
>
> 1) Is CGI appropriate for an RFC? If not, what standards group would
> it belong to?
>
> 2) If it's appropriate for an RFC, is this this WG it would belong to?
> If not, which does it belong to?
>
> 3) Is anyone working on such a thing now?
>
> Thanx,
> <mike

NCSA has been the unofficial keeper of the CGI specification. We have
been working on improving the documentation, but not on formalizing an
RFC. This is something that needs to be done, but the person who had
been working on our CGI stuff was recently transfered to another project
and we don't have anyone working on it currently. If someone wants to
volunteer to work on this, we'll try to find someone from the server
team to work with you. Otherwise this will probably have to wait until
after Christmas.

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Elizabeth(Beth) Frank
NCSA Server Development Team
efrank@ncsa.uiuc.edu