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December 11, 2007

Wrapping console applications in a CGI interface

The goal is to expose some command line applications to somebody using a browser, in a very controlled manner of course.

Outline:

  • Some type of login
  • Choose from a predefined list of commands
  • Specific command line args (with some limits)
  • Run the command
  • Browse the output; better would be to be able to view output page-at-a-time

I have not found exactly this.

I did find some promising leads:

Still looking for a better CGI to "command line" adapter framework.  Comments welcome.  Yes, security would be an issue.

Posted at 06:27 PM in Linux |

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