From: ahoward <ahoward@...>
Date: 2002-12-14T04:11:57+09:00
Subject: Re: Can an .rbx file send it's own code?

On Sat, 14 Dec 2002 nobu.nokada@softhome.net wrote:

> Hi,
>
> At Sat, 14 Dec 2002 02:27:03 +0900,
> Chris Pine wrote:
> > I was wondering if there's a way to make a web page (generated in Ruby) with
> > a link which, when clicked, would send itself... not the generated page, but
> > the actual page-generating Ruby program, the whole .rbx file.
> >
> > I can't figure out any easy way to do this... any thoughts?

http://eli.fsl.noaa.gov/cgi-bin/source.cgi

install this in your cgi-bin dir.

when called with

http://your.host.com/cgi-bin/source.cgi?source=filename.cgi

it will display the source named in the query string.  the all cgi's simply
need a link to this program with cgi.script_name as the source.

-a

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