[gopher] Calling scripts from Gopher

[Cameron Kaiser]

> After rediscovering Gopherspace after several decades and setting up 
> a Bucktooth server in a Raspberry Pi, I'm canvassing opinions as to the
> desirability of writing and deploying scripts to be called using an 
> itemtype 7 - Search. 

As Kim mentioned, lots of people do this (Veronica-2 is implemented in
exactly this manner). It's analogous to CGI.

> I'm well aware of the security implications of "bending" the original spec 
> in this way, but what I'm trying to achieve is a relatively simple database 
> lookup to query a database on another machine and return the result as 
> a gopher-friendly stream.

Sounds like a great idea to me!

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