CGI Programming in Elisp?

Question

Has anyone written any libraries for elisp to do CGI programming? I threw together a quick first script. However, I\'m only a long-time emacs user and I\'ve never really p

Answer 1

One way to do it is, use the httpd server in Emacs HttpServer and send request to emacs using proxy.

Answer 2

I've not written any CGI scripts, but have used xmlgen to generate xml. It'd likely be easier than what you had up there - as it's easy to generate lists in Emacs and have them automatically converted to xml/html.

This code generates the same string:

(require 'xmlgen)
(princ  "Content-type: text/html; charset=utf-8\n\n")
(princ (xmlgen '(html (body (h1 :style "text-align: center" "Elisp CGI Programming")
                      (table :style "border: 1px solid"
                             (tr (th "One")
                                 (th "Two"))
                             (tr (th "A")
                                 (th "B")))))))

Answer 3

This might help you out, a simple cgi library for emacs

http://www.emacswiki.org/emacs/cgi.el