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GNU Cgicc

A C++ class library for writing CGI applications

Introduction
Requirements
CVS
Mailing Lists
Reporting Bugs
Documentation

Introduction

GNU Cgicc is an ANSI C++ compliant class library that greatly simplifies the creation of CGI applications for the World Wide Web. Cgicc performs the following functions:

Parses both GET and POST form data transparently.
Provides string, integer, floating-point and single- and multiple-choice retrieval methods for form data.
Provides methods for saving and restoring CGI environments to aid in application debugging.
Provides full on-the-fly HTML generation capabilities, with support for cookies.
Supports HTTP file upload.

Information on obtaining Cgicc and all GNU software

Requirements

Cgicc requires an ANSI-compliant C++ compiler supporting the C++ standard template library. Cgicc has been tested using gcc versions 2.8.1 through 2.95.1 (including egcs), and MSVC++ 6.0.

CVS

The CVS repository used for Cgicc is on subversions.gnu.org. You can extract the latest version of Cgicc via read-only anonymous CVS. Here's how:

% cvs -d :pserver:anoncvs@subversions.gnu.org:/home/cvs login
Password: [hit enter]
% cvs -d :pserver:anoncvs@subversions.gnu.org:/home/cvs co cgicc

Once you have it checked out, you can update it with cvs update.

If you prefer, you can extract the tree using rsync.

Finally, if you want to browse the source tree using cvsweb, go to http://subversions.gnu.org/cgi-bin/cvsweb/cgicc/.

Mailing Lists

Cgicc now has three mailing lists: <help-cgicc@gnu.org>, <info-cgicc@gnu.org>, and <bug-cgicc@gnu.org>.

The main discussion list is <help-cgicc@gnu.org>, and is used to discuss all aspects of Cgicc, including development and porting.

Anouncements about Cgicc are made on <info-cgicc@gnu.org>.

There is also a special list used for reporting bugs, <bug-cgicc@gnu.org>. For details on submitting a bug report, please see the section Reporting Bugs below.

All of these lists are managed by smartmail, and can be subscribed to by sending empty mail with a subject of subscribe to the relevant -request list. For example, to subscribe yourself to the main list, you would send mail to <help-cgicc-request@gnu.org> with no body and a subject of subscribe.

Reporting Bugs

If you think you have found a bug in Cgicc, then you should send as complete a report as possible to <bug-cgicc@gnu.org>. Ideally, you should include the text you get by running config.guess, the text you see when you run configure, and if you can, a patch made with diff -u5 which fixes the problem.

Documentation

The Cgicc documentation is available in several formats:

HTML (online - 134k characters)
HTML (23k gzipped tar file)
Texinfo source (20k gzipped tar file)
Info format (21k gzipped tar file)
Device-independent format (dvi) (35k gzipped tar file)

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Updated: 20 December 1999 sbooth