Re: [gopher] Calling scripts from Gopher
> 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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