NAME
cgi-bin/waylay.pl - generate a page of HTML for a given URL protocol scheme
SYNOPSIS
cgi-bin/waylay.pl [-C charset] [-L language] [-u myurl]DESCRIPTION
This Perl program is intended for use when rendering ROADS database records which make use of unusual or bizarre protocol schemes. For example, the wais protocol scheme is not widely supported, and the mailto protocol scheme has no attached semantics to tell the user whether they are going to be dealing with a human being or a software agent.
It is assumed that the software which generates URLs referencing this program knows whether or not there is a page of HTML which may be used to describe the protocol scheme in question.
OPTIONS
These options are intended for debugging use only.
- -C charset
-
The character set to use.
- -L language
-
The language to return.
- -u myurl
-
The URL of this program, if not passed as CGI variable - default is waylay.pl in the nominated CGI executables directory.
CGI VARIABLES
- charset
-
The character set to use.
- language
-
The language to return.
- myurl
-
The URL of this program - default is waylay.pl in the nominated CGI executables directory.
FILES
config/protocols - list of protocol schemes to waylay and message files to return
config/multilingual/*/waylay/*.html - per-protocol explanations
FILE FORMAT
The file config/protocols is line oriented, with two fields on each line, colon delimited:
COPYRIGHT
Copyright (c) 1988, Martin Hamilton <martinh@gnu.org> and Jon Knight <jon@net.lut.ac.uk>. All rights reserved.
This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the same terms as Perl itself.
It was developed by the Department of Computer Studies at Loughborough University of Technology, as part of the ROADS project. ROADS is funded under the UK Electronic Libraries Programme (eLib), the European Commission Telematics for Research Programme, and the TERENA development programme.
AUTHOR
Martin Hamilton <martinh@gnu.org>