Babak
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>From: Chuck Adams[SMTP:adamsc@pogo.WV.TEK.COM]
>Sent: Wednesday, December 04, 1996 4:45 PM
>To: Tom Hastings
>Cc: ipp@pwg.org
>Subject: Re: IPP> Desperately seeking info on HTTP servers and CGI scripts
>
>Tom Hastings wrote:
>>
>> Apparently there are a lot of books on HTTP. However, they have a lot of
>> detail and it has been reported that it is hard to find out about
>> HTTP servers and CGI scripts.
>>
>> The IPP project has agreed as a goal that the IPP protocol can be
>>implemented
>> in an HTTP server as a CGI script that interfaces with a printer or print
>> system using whatever protocol that printer or print system supports so
>>that
>> no modifications have to be made to the HTTP server, except installing the
>> CGI script.
>>
>> Presumably you need a separate CGI script for each such printer or print
>> system job submission protocol.
>>
>> So where can we find out more about what CGI scripts are and what kinds
>> of things can be written in them? Are there RFCs? Library books?
>
> I have a copy of "Build a Web Site: The Programmer's
> Guide to Creating, Building and Maintaining a Web
> Presence" by net.Genesis and Devra Hall, Prima Publishing,
> ISBN: 0-7615-0064-2. It is an introductory book on
> CGI scripts and WEB sites.
>
>Chuck Adams
>Tektronix, Inc.
>