CGI scripting with MzScheme

After fiddling around for a couple of minutes I found the correct incantation to get cgi scripts to work with Windows Apache. It uses the traditional Unix hash-bang line. Here we have a nice little hello world cgi:

#!mzscheme -mqf

(define *query-string* (getenv "QUERY_STRING"))

(define (header type)
  (string-append "Content-type: " type "; charset=iso-8859-1~n~n"))

(printf (header "text/html"))
(printf "Hello World~n")

(when *query-string*
      (printf "[~a]~n" *query-string*))

(exit)

But why bother with CGI when there are all these wonderful frameworks around? Isn’t that old-school? Well, I’ve been inspired by something in Seaside. I’m not thinking of porting the whole framework, no way. If I wanted to, then why not just use Seaside? No, I want to try something much smaller.

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