On Fri, 6 Aug 2010, Andrew U. Frank wrote:

i think this limits what network.cgi can be used for: it will work only on systems, where the output from the ghc can execute.

That’s not a limitation of Network.CGI; it’s just the way CGI always works, no matter what language you use. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Server-side_scripting

specifically, this means, i cannot move the executable to an android mobile phone and use it there (assuming that there is a web server, e.g. i-jetty, which understands cgi (does it?)). is this correct?

You’d need a Haskell compiler that targets Android; I don’t know whether such a thing exists yet. (Of course, keep in mind that if the CGI script is running on another computer, such as http://andersk.mit.edu/greet.cgi , you will still be able to visit it and use it from a browser running on Android. That’s the point of CGI; only the server needs to know how to run the code.) Anders