[gopher] help with G n00b re type 7 string harvesting

Kim Holviala kim at holviala.com
Fri Sep 10 10:15:40 UTC 2010


On 2010-09-10 11:24, daniel g wrote:

> G'day could someone please help me? im frustrated -
> I have a type 7 query on my main page. - I am trying to harvest what the
> user types in a bash script like this
>
> #! /path/bash
>
> echo !@ /usr//test.txt
>
> exit
>
> and I cant seem to pick up the input from the type 7 query.

Don't know what pygopherd does, but most gopher servers that I've tried 
emulate regular CGI protocol.

Try this script:

#!/bin/sh
set

And look for your type 7 query on the output. Most likely it's 
$QUERY_STRING.



- Kim





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