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Asked: 2026-05-28T22:55:10+00:00

I am developing a user interface using cgi script and sh and I am

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I am developing a user interface using cgi script and sh and I am having problem in implementing following functionality:

On clicking a button in browser, an HTTP request should go to a server which
should then return a result to the browser.

Problem is that I am going to run this interface in an embedded environment (having httpd as the webserver) where I don’t have php, perl or java for server side coding.

I know I can use XMLHttpRequest of javascript but I am not sure if sh can be used to handle those requests on server. Is it? Can I use bash/sh instead of php/java/perl on server side (for I don’t have any of these programing languages on my embedded device) ?

or are there any alternatives to XMLHTTPRequest?

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  1. Editorial Team

    XMLHttpRequest would run on the client’s browser, not on the server.

    I would indeed suggest writing in C a CGI which, perhaps by using libcurl, would do the HTTP request

    You could write your CGI in sh (but I am not sure it would be a good idea in your case).

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