Re: [9fans] httpd scripting

[Charles Forsyth <forsyth@caldo.demon.co.uk>]

i looked at the code, and the rule i used was simply
that if the url for GET and POST corresponded to an executable file--
as gdb suggested not just an rc file, though i did use rc for many examples--
httpd forked the name space (having originally secured it)
and environment, put some of the parsed data in the environment
(could have served it up in files), optionally sent an HTTP
reply header, and ran the program.

if the executable file's suffix was .http, it was assumed to
generate its own HTTP headers, otherwise httpd provided whatever
was appropriate to the file's suffix.