Are CGI scripts still a thing that's okay to do? It feels kinda like ancient tech but I guess at some point that's just how web tech works?

@noiob Depending on what you want people usually use FastCGI rather than classic CGI, but it's definitely still a thing
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@elomatreb I think that's the way I set it up the last time I did it

I just wanna hand URLs to a bit ot python and have it do its thing and at some point retrieve the result from said thing

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