finger script

Date: Tue, 18 Mar 1997 10:38:18 -0400
From: Landon Boyd <landon@csuite.chebucto.ns.ca>
To: CSuite Testing Reports <csuite-tech@chebucto.ns.ca>
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On Mon, 17 Mar 1997, Edward Dyer wrote:

> On Mon, 17 Mar 1997, David L. Potter wrote:
> 
> > The /ccn/cgi-bin/finger script does not appear to have made it into the 
> > distribution.
> > 
> > frugal has the finger executable in /usr/bin but does not appear to have 
> > the script.
> > 
> > We refer to the script in the Help/Inet/web.html document as a way of 
> > confirming an email address is correct. on ccn this is in the form of 
> > 
> > http://chebucto.ns.ca/cgi-bin/finger
> > 
> > ...which I assume should be changed to:  lynxcgi:/cgi-bin/finger
> > 
> > ???
> 
> No, I don't think so, unless we want to restrict the service to lynx 
> users only  ;-)
> 
> Under my postmaster hat, I actually find it useful to be able to plug a 
> name or userid into the form on a Netscape session, while I'm answering 
> mail in another window.  So definitely, make sure the "gateway" function 
> is there.

The finger script was removed from the distribution when we figured that
it was obsolete.  I've thrown together a new finger gateway using a form
interface.  It will make it into future builds in the same location as the
old finger script.


Landon

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