From: "Gopher-Project" <gopher-project-bounces+rachael=telefisk.org@lists.alioth.debian.org>
       Date: Thu Jan 23 16:47:15 2014
       Subject: Re: [gopher] Calling scripts from Gopher
       
       > After rediscovering Gopherspace after several decades and setting up 
       > a Bucktooth server in a Raspberry Pi, I'm canvassing opinions as to the
       > desirability of writing and deploying scripts to be called using an 
       > itemtype 7 - Search. 
       
       As Kim mentioned, lots of people do this (Veronica-2 is implemented in
       exactly this manner). It's analogous to CGI.
       
       > I'm well aware of the security implications of "bending" the original spec 
       > in this way, but what I'm trying to achieve is a relatively simple database 
       > lookup to query a database on another machine and return the result as 
       > a gopher-friendly stream.
       
       Sounds like a great idea to me!
       
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