From: Brian Wisti <random@...>
Date: 2003-05-24T05:35:28+09:00
Subject: Re: Naive CGI question

Well, for starters, I think such a program would need to be able to 
provide a full CGI environment, as well as handle both ends of a HTTP 
request.  Theoretically possible to do via a Web browser, but probably 
more practical to run your own server (or even have a Ruby class 
handling that job, as in Python's CGIHTTPServer).

- Brian W

On Friday, May 23, 2003, at 01:22  PM, Hal E. Fulton wrote:

> I'm betting this is either impossible
> or highly browser-dependent.
>
> It's not entirely obvious to me that
> a web server is needed to run a CGI
> that is *on the local machine*. (As,
> by analogy, we don't need to run a
> server just to look at local static
> HTML files.)
>
> Yet while it seems theoretically
> possible that a browser could do this,
> I don't know whether any of them
> actually will.
>
> Just to stay somewhat on-topic -- I
> have downloaded Webrick, I just haven't
> yet understood it.  :)
>
> So, a serverless CGI -- possible in
> theory and practice, in theory only,
> or just not happening?
>
>
> Hal
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