Posted by Steve on 11/27/23 11:28

> A bit more of an explanation. What do you mean by "interactive or
> batch"?

Can it just be given a chunk of data and get on with it's job, or does
it have an interactive conversation with the user, with several round
trips from client to server before it can do it's thing?

I suppose the question is: does it have to be a web-facing CGI script
at all, could it be coded as a simple command-line script
(#!/usr/bin/tcl) taking command-line args and returning the result to
STDOUT; it could then live outside the web directory tree and be
protected from abuse from the internet. No need for any fancy
authentication then.

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Steve

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