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🌐 Cyberspace

Scheme. now.

This is a collection of things I've learned while creating this corner of the webzone. I hope this helps your ventures.

How to join the

The is open for everybody! (for now)

Send clonk an SSH public key at the Discord or IRC, along with a desired username.

How to create a web page

Much like other webrings, simply create an index.html at ~/public_html and it will be your main page.

subpages can be created by creating a subdirectory and making an index.html there.

How to join the ring

add <!-- RINGBEARER --> to your name along with a link to https://pub.colonq.computer/~llll/cgi-bin/ring?me=USERNAME&offset=-1 in your index.html, and replace USERNAME with your username.

heres a footer a lot of members of the ring uses:

<!-- RINGBEARER -->
<iframe
    style="position: fixed;left:0px;bottom:0px;border: 0px;"
    width="100%"
    height="30rem"
    src="https://pub.colonq.computer/~llll/cgi-bin/ring?me=USERNAME"
></iframe>

heres the footer that are used in this page:

<!-- RINGBEARER --> <source src="/~prod/footer.js"></source>

In the v2 version of the ring list, you can also write your own site description and subpage highlights.

write relevant metadata between the RINGBEARER and -->.

Here are some example:

<!-- RINGBEARER my page!
    books book recommendation
    game/1 my first game!
    silly/rainbow/a/b/c the secret chamber... -->

How to do funny server side madness

Anything in ~/public_html/cgi-bin will be executed instead of rendered, meaning you can have client execute CGI and render the console output as a result.

The programs for cgi must be statically linked, meaning all libraries must be included and all that.

Gambit Scheme is included in the pub, and you can gsc -exe a scheme code into a cgi binary easily.

Try:

(display "HTTP/1.1 200 OK\n\n")
(display "Hi!")

you can get the url query from (getenv "QUERY_STRING") to pass parameter from front to backend.

most SRFI/racket stuff don't work and you might have to make a lot of common functions from scratch. here are some codes publically available in this webzone that you can check out:

- Cyberspace v1.0 by Fabius

- general API script by prod

- file upload bash script by badcop (executing bash via cgi)

If you made a cgi script and has publicized the source, please mention @pr_d (me) about it at discord/irc! TYVM ♥

Why did i just get a message at the terminal

We have wall! see wall --help for more info but basically it sends a message to everyone connected to it at the time.