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[Stephen Clement <s.clement AT sympatico.ca>]

David Moberg wrote:

> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Ian Scott" <mriscott AT yahoo.co.uk>
>
>  
>
> > Hi,
> >
> > I have been looking at the httpd in BL3.
> >
> > Has anyone else played with this?
> >    
>
> I have. I've used it mainly for file transfers.
>
>  
>
> > According to the docs in the httpd.c source code in busybox (the only place
> > I could find any docs on the web!), it should do cgi if the path contains
> > cgi-bin.  I cannot get this to work, however (it just wants to download the
> > source file!)
> >    
>
> It does the same thing for me. I looked online, and it appears that it's an
> optional feature. I don't know whether it's enabled or not. If it isn't you'll
> need to compile a new httpd.
>
>  
>
> > Anyone else had any success with this?
> >    
>
> Success with serving static webpages, no success with cgi.
>
> David
>  
Hmm. I've built a mini_httpd that works with BL3 and it supports CGI. 
Some people have even reported to get PHP working quite nicely. If any 
of you would like it, I'll e-mail it to you on request. It's 74KB, 
statically compiled with dietlibc.

Thanks,

Stephen Clement