[gopher] cgi on Gopher?

Peter Tynan happy at sdf.lonestar.org
Sun Mar 6 19:28:03 UTC 2011


On Sun, 6 Mar 2011, Mike Hebel wrote:

> I vaguely recall someone talking about getting cgi scripts to work on Gopher 
> but I can't seem to find the thread.  Also has anybody ever managed to get a 
> flat-file wiki working?
>
> If somebody can point me in a direction of getting that working I think 
> there's a possibility of getting pywiki working:
>
> http://c2.com/cgi/wiki?PyWiki
>
> It appears to only require python and cgi-bin to work so I'm kind of 
> wondering what it would take to get it working on a pygopherd or something 
> similar.

Your talking about "moles", over at SDF (using Bucktooth) I've a simple 
implementation using shell scripts to parse RSS feeds 
(gopher://sdf.org/1/users/happy/music), in my gophermap I have a lines 
that read like

0Top 10 Artist in the previous twelve months    12artist.cgi

Hope that helps

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