Re: [Chicken-users] Spiffy cgi usage

[Peter Bex]

On Thu, Mar 27, 2008 at 09:19:59AM +0100, felix winkelmann wrote:
> On Thu, Mar 27, 2008 at 6:31 AM, Matthew Welland <address@hidden> wrote:
> > How to set up spiffy to directly execute cgi scripts. I.e. NOT by applying
> >  the interperter to the script:
> >
> >  Spiffy seems to want this:
> >
> >  /bin/perl script.pl
> >
> >  vs
> >
> >  script.pl with #!/bin/perl in the first line.
> 
> Yes, I think this is the case. I stumbled over this as well.
> Peter, is it possible to provide a more convenient way of running
> cgi scripts?

I suppose the docs just suck.  The interpreter is an optional argument
to the cgi-handler procedure.

You should just be able to say (cgi-handler "script.pl")

Cheers,
Peter
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