Executes a CGI script or shell command. This command has security implications and therefore, might not be available on all web sites.

Attributes

cgi=URL

Path to the CGI script URL encoded. That is, a character can be quoted by % followed by its hex value. The CGI script is given the PATH_INFO and QUERY_STRING of the original request from the client. The variables available in <!--#echo> will be available to the script in addition to the standard CGI environment. If the script returns a Location header, then this will be translated into an HTML anchor.

cmd=path

The server will execute the command using /bin/sh. The variables available in <!--#echo> will be available to the script.