Purpose: Discuss the various options for writing Tcl Common Gateway Interface [CGI] compliant applications. ---- See [Writing simple CGI applications using vanilla Tcl]. ---- What: cgi.tcl Where: http://expect.nist.gov/cgi.tcl/ http://expect.nist.gov/cgi.tcl/FAQ.html http://pitch.nist.gov/cgi-bin/cgi.tcl http://www.nist.gov/msidlibrary/doc/libes96c.ps http://pitch.nist.gov/cgi-bin/cgi.tcl/examples.cgi/ http://pitch.nist.gov/cgi-bin/cgi.tcl/visitor.cgi Description: Procedures for writing CGI scripts or HTML pages using Tcl7.4 to 8.2. Support for forms, tables, cookies, Netscape extensions, file upload, plug-ins, etc. The PostScript file is the paper published describing the procedures. The cgi-bin URL is a collection of CGI examples. The examples.cgi directory is a series of live cgi examples which allow you to see how various features work. Latest version is now version 1.8.0. Updated: 10/2002 Contact: mailto:libes@nist.gov (Don Libes) What: cgibitch Where: http://neutron.resnet.gatech.edu:8000/index.adp Description: Tcl extension to unescape and separate CGI query arguments and handles GET and POST requests transparently. It is currently at v1.0.4. Updated: 02/2000 Contact: mailto:reeves@earthling.net What: email-www Where: ftp://ce-toolkit.crd.ge.com/tcl/email-www.tar.gz Description: A Tcl support library that works with dtclsh and tcl-www and provides support for mailto-like functionality using HTML forms. email-www comes with CGI scripts for simple, demonstration mail forms, but it is designed to be used as a library. It includes basic support for email to FAX gateways and role mapping (aliases) in addition to plain electronic mail support. Updated: Contact: Unknown What: FastCGI for Tcl Where: http://fastcgi.idle.com/ ftp://ftp.procplace.com/pub/tcl/sorted/packages-7.6/net/fcgi.tcl-0.4/fcgi.tcl-0.4.tar.gz http://www.fastcgi.com/applibs/2.0.0/fcgi-devel-kit.tar.Z (???) http://www.egroups.com/group/fastcgi-developers Description: Extension of CGI that eliminates drawbacks and provides high performance, which remaining highly compatible with existing CGI applications. Original only supports Tcl 7.4, see idle site for pointers to Tom Pointdexter's version for newer support, as well as other language support. To use some features you need tclX, at least 8.0.2 installed. You must have the fcgi development kit 2.0b2.1 or newer to use Fcgi. FastCGI is supported by at least these servers: Apache 1.2.x (with mod_fastcgi 2.0.9), NCSA 1.5 w/FastCGI support, Netscape server w/FastCGI support, Open Market, Stronghold, Bluestone Sapphire web servers. Some problems appear to exist with this code and recent Tcls, resulting in core dumps on Unix. Contact Tom Poindexter for details. Updated: 11/2000 Contact: mailto:fastcgi-developers-request@openmarket.com mailto:tpoindex@nyx.net (Tom Poindexter) What: filebrowse Where: ftp://ce-toolkit.crd.ge.com/pub/tcl/filebrowse.tar.gz Description: Allows a CGI program to generate forms that include a directory browser that resembles PC based applications. Can specify virtual root directory and working directory, URL where directories are to be linked, and URL where files are to be linked. Updated: 08/1998 Contact: Unknown * [Miscellaneous Tcl procs (Dillinger)] What: NeoSoft Tcl Where: ftp://ftp.procplace.com/pub/tcl/neosoft/neotcl/ Description: Tcl 7.6 and 8.0 set of commands and libraries providing interfaces to disk-based btree and hashtables, TCP/IP server-client objects, along with examples of an IRC robot object, RFC931 authentication object, support for WWW CGI scripts, WWW log file parsing. Also, this includes file requestors, dialog boxes, pull-down menus, class libraries for databases, listboxes, a Tk notepad, progress notifiers, UDP-based object sharing, and more. Package includes Tcl, Tk, itcl, Tcl-DP, tclX, color pixmap and GIF support, and Expect. Updated: 10/1998 Contact: mailto:tcl-project@neosoft.com (Neosoft support) What: ProcCGIInput Where: http://www.uni-frankfurt.de/%7Efp/Tcl/ProcCGIInput.tcl.txt Description: Tcl 7.6 script that finds all form variables in the $form() array. Updated: 07/1997 Contact: mailto:fp@informatik.uni-frankfurt.de (Frank Pilhofer) What: SNTL Where: http://www.csua.berkeley.edu/%7Esls/woa/distrib/ ftp://ftp.procplace.com/pub/tcl/sorted/packages-7.6/devel/sntl-0.4.2.tar.gz ftp://ftp.procplace.com/pub/tcl/sorted/packages-7.6/devel/sntl-0.4.2p1.patch.tar.gz Description: A general Tcl library of procedures. Contains code to produce man pages from Tcl source, conversions from Tcl to C, HTML rendering, generating HTML, handling CGI forms, command line argument processing, a debugging message system, an object system, and various Tk widgets built with the object system. Updated: 10/1998 Contact: mailto:slshen@lbl.gov (Sam Shen) mailto:sls@aero.org (Sam Shen) What: tcl-cgi Where: http://ruulst.let.ruu.nl:2000/tcl-cgi.html ftp://ftp.procplace.com/pub/tcl/sorted/packages-7.6/net/tcl-cgi-1.1/tcl-cgi-1.1.tar.gz Description: Small extension allowing Tcl programmers to write CGI programs which can handle the POST method of data. Enables a secure WWW interface to Tcl applications. Updated: 10/1998 Contact: mailto:Wessel.Kraaij@let.ruu.nl (Wessel Kraaij) What: tclsap Where: http://www.mcs.net/%7Egarth/SAP/TCLSAP/ Description: Extensions to Tcl 7.4/Tk 4.0 to allow interactive or script based access to a SAP R/3 system through RFC calls. Allows one to develop CGI-BIN access through which SAP can be accessed. Updated: Contact: mailto:garth@mcs.net (Garth Kennedy) What: uncgi Where: From the contact Description: Tcl procedure to parse the CGI form data. Updated: Contact: mailto:L@demailly.com (Laurent Demailly) What: Blitz.tcl Where: http://www.nsoftware.com/ Description: Beta release of a CGI script accelerator for ISAPI enbabled HTTP servers. No changes to CGI scripts are needed. Initial version is tuned for Tcl 8.x and Windows NT. A Windows 95/98 version is available for testing. Future versions will become commercially available after development completes. Updated: 04/1999 Contact: mailto:info@nsoftware.com What: cal.tcl Where: ftp://ftp.net-quest.com/users/ivler/tcl/cal.cgi ftp://ftp.net-quest.com/users/ivler/tcl/uncgi_14.tar.gz Description: CGI script to provide a WWW-based, dynamic, calendar. Requires uncgi. See a demo at http://www.net-quest.com/%7Eivler/cal/cal.html. Updated: Contact: mailto:ivler@i-xpress.com (J.M. Ivler) What: CGI Forms based mailing (Ivler) Where: ftp://ftp.net-quest.com/users/ivler/tcl/email.tcl Description: A Tcl script to do CGI processing of 'email the form data' for the programmer. Requires uncgi. See http://www.net-quest.com/%7Eivler/ for explanation of the script. Updated: Contact: mailto:ivler@i-xpress.com (J.M. Ivler) What: CGI Forms based mailing (Knight) Where: From the contact Description: A Tcl script to allow Common Gateway Interface forms-based mailing to a specific user. Updated: Contact: mailto:J.P.Knight@lut.ac.uk (Jon P. Knight) What: CGI Forms data formating Where: http://www.winehq.com/apps.cgi Description: Tcl based CGI script which allows data to be entered and the results formatted into a nice table. Updated: 02/1998 Contact: mailto:ridgway@taiga.gmcl.com (Douglas Ridgway) What: CGI Tcl commands Where: http://camnet.ge.com/tcl/ Description: C code implementing Tcl commands for query-string parsing and other interesting things for CGI programmers. Updated: Contact: mailto:kennykb@crd.ge.com (Kevin B. Kenny) What: CGI to Tcl and/or Tk Where: From the contact Description: Simple Common Gateway Interface scripts for invoking Tcl scripts or Tk scripts. Updated: Contact: mailto:sgutfreund@gte.com (Yechezkal-Shimon Gutfreund) What: CGI upload script Where: http://www.winehq.com/patches.cgi Description: cgi.tcl based script to allow people to upload their own patches. Updated: 06/1998 Contact: mailto:ridgway@winehq.com (Doug What: Data entry via CGI Where: http://www.winehq.com/apps.cgi Description: Tcl based CGI script that allows people to enter data and then formats it into a table. Data can contain HTML, which then will be included so that links can be put in. Updated: 01/1998 Contact: mailto:ridgway@winehq.com (Douglas Ridgway) What: Email CGI form script Where: From the contact Description: A tcl script that generates the HTML for an email entry page. Updated: Contact: mailto:hhalkin@ucsd.edu (Hubert Halkin) What: Got It Where: http://www.goahead.com/gotit/ Description: Commercial product which attempts to improve web response time by predicting, retrieving, and filtering pages for you, in the background. Prioritizes retrieved data and caches the data on your hard drive. Works transparently with your web browser. Consists of a page fetcher, a pruner, and maintainer of a news page listing what pages have been downloaded for the user. Runs as a proxy HTTP server. Supports CGI scripting and safe Tcl CGI scripting. Works on Windows 95/Windows NT and Netscape or Microsoft Internet Explorer. See above page for a 14 day evaluation copy. Updated: 02/1997 Contact: mailto:bryan@goahead.com (Bryan Klisch) What: Helga Where: ftp://ftp.cmh.on.ca/pub/helga/ Description: Reduce code length and complexity for applications mixing CGI HTML, ODBC, and Tcl. Comes with both 16 and 32 bit Windows NT and Windows 95 versions. Updated: Contact: mailto:maw@ihis.cmh.on.ca (Richard Maw) What: HTTP CGI example of calling Tcl Where: ftp://ftp.ncsa.uiuc.edu/Web/ncsa_httpd/cgi/tcl-proc-args.tar.Z Description: The NCSA's httpd can invoke tcl scripts. It appears there is a test example called test-cgi.tcl that comes with the httpd source. At least one bug fix was reported relating to the content length field. Contact mailto:etxmesa@eos.ericsson.se (Michael Salmon) for details. Updated: Contact: mailto:robert.bagwill@nist.gov What: Illustra ORDBMS to WWW CGI gateway Where: http://lenti.med.umn.edu/%7Ethanson/sqlform.html Description: A Tcl CGI gateway for WWW access to Illustra ORDBMS files. Updated: Contact: mailto:thanson@acl.lanl.gov (Troy Hanson) What: Jungle Where: ftp://catless.ncl.ac.uk/pub/jungle.tar.gz ftp://catless.ncl.ac.uk/pub/jungle-1.2prealpha.tar.gz Description: The contact is developing a "WWW server" (sic) (really HTTP?) using Tcl/Tk/tclX/Tcl-DP. Alpha version currently supports simple GET, HEAD, POST directives and CGI-Scripts and can server plaintext, HTML, GIF, JPG, and AU file formats. Configure it similar to CERN. Provides no authentication or access controls, or cgi program execution for POST or searching. Updated: Contact: mailto:jungle@catless.ncl.ac.uk What: mmm Where: ftp://ftp.inria.fr/INRIA/Projects/cristal/Francois.Rouaix/mmm/ http://pauillac.inria.fr/%7Erouaix/mmm/ http://pauillac.inria.fr/caml/ http://pauillac.inria.fr/csl/ http://wwwfun.kurims.kyoto-u.ac.jp/jmmm/ Description: A WWW client demonstrating the capabilities of the Caml Special Light programming language. Supports most of HTML 3.2, as well as Caml Special Light applets. Supports CGI calling, english, french and japanese, V0.41 requires Tcl 7.5/Tk 4.1 or Tcl 7.6/Tk 4.2, metamail, djpeg, gzcat, and Caml v1.06 or newer. Updated: 01/1998 Contact: mailto:Francois.Rouaix@inria.fr What: Mod_dtcl Where: http://tcl.apache.org/ Description: Apache module to enable server parsed web pages using Tcl as the scripting language. It is simlar in functionality to PHP, fast, easy to use, tightly integrated with HTML, and extensible. It is currently available in an alpha release. Includes dtcl-mode.el, which lets you switch between Tcl and HTML modes, dtcl.tcl, a port of Don Libes' cgi.tcl. Supports TTML pages. Latest version is v0.7.3. Updated: 02/2000 Contact: mailto:davidw@apache.org (David N. Welton) What: Myrmeco Where: http://www.neatware.com/myrmecox/ Description: Trial version of a commercial Tcl/Tk IDE for Windows 95/98/2000/NT. Supports Multithreads, Unicode, and the Tcl Stubs interface. Includes project, command and console view, smart MDI editor with color coding of command keywords and comments, command keyword editor, Tcl/Tk 8.2 core, and a debugger. Also includes a web builder (MyrmecoWeb), MyrmecoWiz, a wizard for generating c/c++ code templates for Tcl extensions, MyrmecoTk, a component based framework for GUI applications, Salan, a Tcl extension for HTML, CGI, and XML. Platform: Windows 95/98/2000/NT 4.0 Current version is 2.3. Updated: 11/1998 Contact: mailto:support@neatware.com What: Namazu Where: http://saturn.aichi-u.ac.jp/%7Eccsatoru/Namazu/ http://www.tama.or.jp/%7Ekenzo-/Namazu/tknamazu/ Description: Namazu (catfish, in English) is search engine software intended for easy use. Not only does it work as a CGI interface for small to medium scale WWW search engines, but is also appropriate for personal search databases. Search clients are available in Mule and Tcl/Tk, Java, Perl. It has been ported to OS/2, Unix, and Win32. tknamazu is the Tcl/Tk search client. Updated: 10/1998 Contact: mailto:ccsatoru@vega.aichi-u.ac.jp (Satoru Takabayashi) mailto:kenzo-@tama.or.jp (Ken-ichi Hirose) What: rfc Where: http://www.uni-frankfurt.de/%7Efp/Tcl/rfc.tcl.txt Description: Tcl 7.5 CGI script to interface with glimpse to browse internet Request For Comment (RFC) documents. Updated: 07/1997 Contact: mailto:fp@informatik.uni-frankfurt.de (Frank Pilhofer) What: Simple Order Form generator Where: ftp://ce-toolkit.crd.ge.com/tcl/simpleforms.tar.gz Description: A simple order form generator and processor package. It consists of a Tcl support library and CGI scripts that read forms from template files and use the email-www package to transport the results. Updated: Contact: Unknown What: Tcl-Httpd Where: http://www.tcl.tk/software/tclhttpd/ http://www.tcl.tk/ ftp://ftp.procplace.com/pub/tcl/sorted/packages-8.0/distrib/cvs-tclhttpd.tar.gz http://www.beedub.com/tclhttpd/ Description: An HTTP daemon written in Tcl. Uses event-driven I/O, and caches URL to file name lookups. Provides CGI interface, built in image map hit detection, uses SafeTcl as an additional way to process a page, supports server side includes, and provides a GUI to monitor the server's activity. Should run on all platforms. A mailing list is available. Currently this is at version 3.0.2. Updated: 06/2000 Contact: mailto:welch@acm.org (Brent Welch) What: tcl2html Where: http://www.purl.org/net/hobbs/tcl/script/ Description: Tcl script which creates an HTML presentation of a Tcl program. Preserves spacing, emphasizes comments, bolds Tcl keywords for presentation on the WWW. Works as either a CGI script or stand-alone script. Written in Tcl 7.6. Updated: 11/1998 Contact: mailto:jeff.hobbs@acm.org (Jeffrey Hobbs) What: uncgi (Koreth) Where: http://www.hyperion.com/%7Ekoreth/uncgi.html ftp://ftp.hyperion.com/%7Ekoreth/ Description: A frontend for processing queries and forms from WWW on Unix systems. Updated: Contact: mailto:koreth@hyperion.com What: Velocity Engine Where: http://www.binevolve.com/ http://developer.binevolve.com/ Description: A commercial Netscape Server API plugin that allows you to program the Netcape HTTP server using Tcl. Speeds up developer time on WWW site developement by replacing CGI by allowing one to embed Tcl into pages. Also known as Velocigen. Currently at version v1.1.3. Updated: 05/1999 Contact: mailto:info@binevolve.com What: WebHand Where: http://members.xoom.com/xwebhand/ Description: HTML editor, beautifier, template manager, with the idea to make editing JavaScript, CGIs, etc. easier. Updated: 02/2000 Contact: mailto:igors@angara.ru What: Wikit Where: http://www.equi4.com/tclkit/wikit.html http://www.purl.org/mini/cgi-bin/wikit.gz Description: A "wiki wiki web" application written in Tcl. It allows anyone with a web browser to edit pages of the application remotely. Allows a loosely organized web forum. The application provides hypertext between its pages. Application can be used both as a stand alone Tk application and as a CGI application. Requires Tclkit or Tcl 8.0.x and mk4tcl. The mini net site is an up to date snapshot of the entire Wiki. Updated: 10/2000 Contact: mailto:jcw@equi4.com (Jean-Claude Wippler) What: wwwtools Where: http://hplyot.obspm.fr/%7Edl/wwwtools.html ftp://hplyot.obspm.fr/tcl/www/ Description: Source for geturl, geturl2, uncgi, test-cgi, guest book, as well as other WWW related Tcl tools. Note that a HTTP server written in Tcl, tclX, Tcl-DP, and GD Tcl is also described here. Updated: Contact: mailto:L@demailly.com (Laurent Demailly) What: Yakdot Where: http://www.smith-house.org/open.html Description: Simple Tcl application to provide a slashdot-like web forum manager. Runs as a CGI. Currently at version 1.0 Updated: 09/2000 Contact: mailto:larry@smith-house.org (Larry Smith) ---- [Category Internet]