A Shell Server for HTTP

The HTTP protocol is very simple. The following is an example of a server program written in sh: #! /bin/sh read get docid echo "" echo Here is the data

The docid may have a trailing carriage return to be stripped off on some systems. You can modify that script to produce the data you actually want. The HTML syntax for marked-up text is fairly simple, but if you want just to send plain text, then just send the &lt.PLAINTEXT&gt. tag first: #! /bin/sh read get docid echo "

"
cat $docid

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  When you have written your script, set the execute bit and then configure
  the <a name="2" href="/archive/cern/735" original-href="../Daemon/User/Installation.html#2" archive-page-id="735">inet daemon to run it</a> . A few more examples:
  <ul>
    <li>
      <a name="5" href="/archive/cern/793" original-href="../Tools/HTMLGeneration/dir2html.txt" archive-page-id="793">A sh script to generate a menu for files in a directory</a>
    </li>
    <li>
      <a name="6" href="/archive/cern/794" original-href="../Tools/HTMLGeneration/ls2html.awk.txt" archive-page-id="794">An awk script to generate menu from a list of files</a> .
    </li>
    <li>
      <a name="7" href="/archive/cern/795" original-href="../Daemon/Implementation/asis.txt" archive-page-id="795">A perl script for all kinds of stuff on the ASIS server</a>
    </li>
  </ul>
  If you know the perl language, then that is a powerful (if otherwise
  incomprehensible) language with which to hack together a server. 
  <p>
    See also<a name="3" href="/archive/cern/723" original-href="ServerWriter.html" archive-page-id="723"> a case study of mapping a database onto the web</a> .</p>
  <p>
    All contributions to these examples welcome!</p>
  <p>
    _________________________________________________________________
  </p>
  <address><a name="0" href="/archive/cern/796" original-href="http://info.cern.ch./hypertext/TBL_Disclaimer.html" archive-page-id="796">Tim BL</a></address>
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