1 The CGI IO slave provides a way to execute CGI programs without the need to
2 have a running web server. This can for example be used for local testing of
3 CGI programs or for using search engines that only provide a CGI frontend like
6 The IO slave implements the cgi: protocol. It uses the filename from the given
7 URL and searches a configurable list of directories. If it finds an executable
8 with the given name it executes it, passes the arguments of the URL and sets the
9 environment variables needed by CGI programs.
11 The kcontrol module System/kcmcgi is used to configure the search paths for CGI
14 If you have questions or comments please contact Cornelius Schumacher