CGI script for posting minutes to the web

[Roy Tennant]

The UCB Library Web has used a similar feature since last summer, when it 
was coded in perl by a library school intern. Anthony Birdsong from the 
University of Washington created the program which we still use. The 
address of the form is:

http://www.lib.berkeley.edu/Web/Forms/minimal.html

Please do not try to actually use it, as all off-campus addresses are
denied and an email notification is sent to the Web Manager. We call it
our "Minimal HTML Page Form" since it basically just wraps the body text
in the pre-formatted text tags. It also puts our standard top and bottom
button bars on it, includes the submitter's email address, the date and
time it was submitted, places it in a particular directory of our server
and mails a message to the Web Manager. 

The Web Manager can then take a look at it before putting it where it 
needs to go and making any appropriate links to it. I advise keeping this 
evaluation step, as that is the only way to retain control over what goes 
up. 

I have made the perl available at:

http://www.lib.berkeley.edu/Web/Forms/newpage.pl

Thanks,
Roy Tennant

On Mon, 8 Apr 1996, John C. Matylonek wrote:

>      I am looking for sufficenly generic cgi script that accepts an email, 
>      strips the header, places <pre> tags around the body, and places it in 
>      the "correct" web server directory. It would also then update the html 
>      file giving access to it. You can imagine such script being useful for 
>      many library "intranets" for posting minutes to the web and such.
>      
>      John Matylonek
>      matylonj at ccmail.orst.edu
> 
>