[ris-int] Re: [NCC#2005024029] RIS CGIs are online
Rene Wilhelm wilhelm at ripe.net
Thu Feb 24 14:58:38 CET 2005
Hi Arife, >> I also have a request: once the prefix cgi is returning v6 results >> as expected, could you modify the riswhois cgi to also put up >> a "Query RIS database" button for IPv6 queries? >> James did the first versions of the riswhois cgi, but I guess that after >> the restructuring this is now SED responsibility. > Yes, you're right. I put into ToDo list. > About ETA, I can not say something definite this week. I'm second line > support for RIPE DBM, and it's bit busy. Next week I will get back to you. OK, that's perfectly fine. > Those CGIs are implemented Mason and Perl. One CGI has more than one > components. Form, result, and errors are printed by seperate html/cgi > files. We can easily pass the ARGS from one to another, but the result > page is not the one which is executing CGIs. That means if you copy and > paste and send somebody the result page with arguments, it will not work. > Since the CGI that executes the code is different than the one that > produce the results. Because of that I do not think it's not so useful > to have the ARGs in URL. > When I had a chat with Kevin about it, he suggested to add a link somewhere > on the page giving the URL. I do not know what you think about that. If > you want we can go for that. The most important thing is that by exchanging URLs people can point each other to results of a specific RIS query. Usually, you would go to the top of the browser and copy the URL there, but if that's not possible a link on the results page, something like "The URL for this query is $url" would work too. BTW, nice to see the query form is repeated on the results page! -- Rene
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