Useful resources for the HTML/CGI developer. These first three are designed to be used as the action in a HTML form.
TipJar form tester
Test your forms, tipjar cookies, and current IP address with the
TipJar form tester.
This script shows you the CGI environment variables, the query
string or POST input in
its encoding and splits query strings up into key-value pairs which
are displayed in a table. Very helpful for debugging HTML/CGI systems whenever
you're not sure if the problem is in the form, the browser, or the script.
Version 1.1 now translates all & characters into & to
avoid browser interpretation of query strings.
Version 1.2 includes a
"DEPAQUED" column, that does
CGI from data into your mailbox even if the user hasn't properly
set up their outgoing e-mail! No longer do you have to hassle with
configuring your own cgi-bin running web server; use
the TipJar generic CGI
data handler for collecting visitor data on your web site, or
even handling production queries. The demonstration page contains
a working mail-to form.
View your excel-format data in HTML.
And once you've freed your data from those inscrutable proprietary formats,
you can
graph it with gnuplot.
This trivial script redirects the user to the first hypertext url given in
get-style form data.
Write card games in CGI form without doing intensive graphics file development
with this eclectic deck of found and constructed playing cards.
the whole deck, may take a while to download
If everyone uses these card images for their games, you will only need to load
them once and then they will be in your web browser or proxy's cache, saving
bandwidth.
s/+/ /g; s/%(..)/pack("c",hex($1))/ge;
on
the data values.
TipJar generic form handler
xlHtml uploader
interactive gnuplot style tweaker
This one has been down for longer than it was up.
The google charts api looks like a good solid replacement.
Locatomatic
TipJar playing cards
De-mime-ulator
a utility to decode a base-64 encoded attachment and return it as a web page
TipJar Authenticated Identity Service
a working public single login service, suitable for use by any web application.