URL CGI (Obsolete) by Grant Neufeld Current Version: 1.0 beta 3 Friday, September 27, 1996 Download: http://www.nisto.com/cgi/random.sit.hqx Random URL is a CGI application for WebSTAR or MacHTTP (or any other CGI sdoc compatible web server) which randomly returns an url, from a text file, to clients. This program is shareware. This software is obsolete and is maintained here for archival purposes only. Use at your own risk.

Upgrade Notice

The current version adds a preferences dialog with Balloon Help.
The bug that prevented Random URL from running with some Mac web servers has been fixed. It should now operate will all Mac web servers that support the Macintosh CGI standard.
Various other bugs have been fixed.

Features

• Pre-indexing of files for faster response time
• Compiled application (written in C) means fast response time
• Can be used for random pictures in html documents
• WebSTAR server Action support
• PowerPC CGI and WebSTAR plug-in for registered users

Details

The Random URL CGI operates through the use of text file lists of URLs. The files are pre-indexed by the CGI to ensure fast response. Any action or data that can be specified by an url (HTML pages, QuickTime movies, email, newsgroups... ) can be returned by this CGI.

You can even have the images embedded in an HTML document be chosen at random using the Random URL CGI.

Random URL CGI takes up very little memory - it can run on less than 256K. And, if it hasn't been accessed for a while, it automatically quits itself to free up that memory.

Limitations

File Size:

32767 bytes maximum size. Anything larger will not be used.

URL Size:

4095 characters maximum per URL.

Total URLs:

32767. But then, you can't fit that many into a 32767 byte file anyway.

This is beta software but it seems to actually work without problems! Don't bet your life on it though...

Download

• http://www.nisto.com/cgi/random.sit.hqx (most recent version)
• Info-Mac Archives: /info-mac/comm/inet/web/random-url-10b3-cgi.hqx

Further Information About this CGI

World Wide Web home page

http://www.nisto.com/cgi/random.html

Source Code

This application is based on "Grant's CGI Framework"
The aditional code specific to this project is not available.

Legal Stuff

See the included "License and Limited Warranty" document for all the usual boring details.

Registration

If you like this software and decide to continue to use it for more than 28 days, you must purchase a license the author. Each license entitles you to run as many copies of the software as you want on a single machine. Additional machines require additional licenses.

• Commercial users: US$15
• Non-profit users: US$5
• Site License: US$50
• World-wide Site License: US$275

Add $1 if you want a paper receipt.

Payments are accepted through the Kagi shareware service. Details are included with the software.

Payment can be made online using a credit card through the Kagi Payment Service (Note that your billing statement will list them, not me. They pay me after receiving the funds. This is a lot easier than me having to handle payment services.)

Contacting the Developer

support@nisto.com