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vidarh on Sept 27, 2014 | parent | context | favorite | on: Not a bash bug

Apache doesn't have the option of using a socket for implementing the CGI spec. The spec specifies environment variables.

Apache could refuse to provide a mod_cgi, in which case it would never have gained the position it did, and some other server with support for CGI would have.

nailer on Sept 27, 2014 [–]

> The spec specifies environment variables.

If that's true, then the spec has been obviously, fundamentally broken for it's entire existence.

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