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CSA

CGI Shell Architecture

Carlo Strozzi

Italian Linux Society

v0.9.4-rc2 - June 9th, 2003 (Draft)
This paper describes CSA (CGI Shell Architecture), and how to write programs based on it. CSA is a small application development environment for the World Wide Web, based on the classical "UNIX toolkit" approach, aimed at the rapid prototyping of Web-based application services. CSA tries to make "scripting-up" Web applications as quick and handy as writing the usual shell scripts for the command-line. And, most important, it tries to bring to the Web the same shell+utilities paradigm which is at the very hart of the UNIX programming style. This document is a work in progress, and a lot remains to be done to make it a real reference manual. At the moment, the only detailed documentation available is a few example programs and the extensive comments contained in the various CSA library source files.

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1. Foreword and Introduction

2. CSA Installation and Setup

3. CSA basic features

4. Data tables

5. Basic CSA conventions

6. HTTP front-end

7. Undocumented features

8. References

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