Gif Serv 10 Acgi

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Background Netscape Communications's Netscape 1.1b1 web browser supports the capability to draw "animated" graphics from gif files. Their demo page has a simple example of their Mozilla character rising from the horizon and breathing fire. I wanted to support this similar animation from MacHTTP (soon be WebSTAR, I think.) I took John O'Fallon's shell for building CGIs and the ANSI C code Netscape provided and I made GIFserv.acgi. Purpose GIFserv receives, from a direct argument in HTTP, a folder to scan for GIF files. It doesn't care about filenames, but the file types must be Macintosh GIF (type=GIFf). It will open the files alphabetically, read their contents and formulates one large AppleEvent that contains the appropriate MIME headers for multipart/x-mixed-replace. This gives the Netscape 1.1b1 client the appearance of dynamic images. HTML example included. >From author, Richard C. Cardona