Re: Looking for old Perl CGI code

My my, you can tell it's a patent because it's completely incomprehensible to anyone "versed in the art" :-(

I don't know whether this is what you're after, but the old source tarball of the NCSA httpd web server 1.1,

ftp://ftp.ncsa.uiuc.edu/Web/httpd/Unix/ncsa_httpd/old/httpd_1.1/httpd_source.tar.Z

contains several sample CGI scripts dated Dec 1993, and one of them (wais.pl) is a perl script.

Is there any specific aspect of CGI usage you need evidence of?

Dave.

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Re^2: Looking for old Perl CGI code by ton (Friar) on Oct 12, 2005 at 23:04 UTC
I'm not exactly skilled at reading patents either, but I think I need a script that takes inputs on what data you want and how to show it, and outputs HTML with the <TABLE> tag. Ideally, the script would access a dB, but I think I can live without that. Essentially, this looks like (I think) a script that runs a predetermined SQL call and spits out an HTML table. I'll start looking through the sample scripts. Thanks! ----- Be bloody, bold, and resolute; laugh to scorn The power of man...	[reply]
<TABLE> tag isn't that old by Anonymous Monk on Oct 12, 2005 at 23:57 UTC
Netscape 1.1 added the <TABLE> tag in April '95. I'm not sure how far back you'll find scripts using it before then. Good luck, though	[reply]
Re: <TABLE> tag isn't that old by ton (Friar) on Oct 13, 2005 at 17:24 UTC
Ahh, I miswrote. I don't think the <TABLE> tag is a requirement; that's just how I mentally picture the script I'm looking for. I think the script just needs to present a subset of some dataset, and that presentation must have at least two different formats, with the format selected by the user. I don't even think the output has to be in HTML; a tab-delimited text file would suffice. ----- Be bloody, bold, and resolute; laugh to scorn The power of man...	[reply]
Re: <TABLE> tag isn't that old by Perl Mouse (Chaplain) on Oct 13, 2005 at 08:40 UTC
TABLE elements were proposed before that (and implemented in other browsers as well). TABLEs were part of the HTML3 draft. Unfortunally, Netscape only implemented a subset of the TABLE functionality, and an incompatible subset as well. Other browsers decided to be Netscape compatible. HTML3.2 specifies a (compatible) superset of the Netscape implementation, and there's even an HTML tables RFC. Both HTML3.2 and the RFC date from 1996, IIRC. Unfortunally, we're a decade further, and little progress has been made. `Perl --((8:>*`	[reply]