[Savannah-hackers] Re: [Savannah] gcgi want to be a GNU package

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Also, it would be good to mention in your submission how your project
compares with the many other CGI libraries for C.

address@hidden <address@hidden> wrote:

>
> Submitter: <address@hidden>
> Project Full Name:  CGI Library in C (GCGI)
> Project System Name:  gcgi
> License:  lgpl
> Approval URL: https://savannah.gnu.org/admin/groupedit.php?group_id=2315
> Description: CGI Library in C (GCGI)
>
> The GCGI library implements NCSA's Common Gateway Interface
> specification along with the extensions that were defined in RFC2388
> allowing for easy implementation of web-based programs and CGIs. It has
> the following major features:
>
> * Implements NCSA's CGI specification allowing you to easily process
> the data submitted by urlencoded HTML forms.
>
> * Implements RFC 2388. This includes support for HTML forms encoded as
> * multipart/form-data which gives support for such things as uploading
> * files via HTML forms.
>
> * GCGI handles setting and fetching regular and encrypted cookies (using
> * OpenSSL).
>
> * GCGI can control the HTTP headers sent to the browser to change cache
> * behavior, send HTTP error codes, redirect the browser to other pages
> * and to send both the Content-Type and Content-Disposition headers.
>
> GCGI was originally written to replace the proprietary library, CGIC but
> has now implemented many new features that are not available in CGIC
> (such as cookie support and RFC2388 implementation). GCGI is released
> under the GNU Lesser General Public License.
>
> It already exists here:
> http://catchen.org/gcgi/
>
> You can download the latest relase at:
> http://catchen.org/gcgi/gcgi-0.9.4.tar.gz
>
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