How can I extract the cgi files from a website

need to extract the script files

[stavs]

Evening, Friends

A question that I have frequently wondered about but never got around to asking:

I want to be able to read the cgi (or perl, if that is the correct term) files from a website. It's a form to mail script that I want to extract its and then edit it - I just don't know how to read the files. If I just type in the url such as: [site.com...] obviously this is not going to show the script.

Am I being a bit slow here? must be a way?

best,

Stavs

[jimbo_mac]

stavs,

you have to download via ftp from your cgi-bin folder and edit it offline with a text editor, then upload it back to your server.

jimbo_mac

[stavs]

Ahh, I see, but in this instance I can't access the script though ftp because its on a my host's secure server and I don't have ftp capability. Is this the only way, Jimbo?

[dvduval]

I would say you would have to be authenticate, so yes.

[stavs]

thanks both!

[Robber]

If its a generic form to mail script you will probably find it is free to download from places like hotscripts or cgi resources. Perhaps your host mentions the name of the script somewhere - if they do, just do a google search on it and your away.

[Marcia]

stavs, that's the same one all others sharing the same hosting as you are using, if you have cgi access you're probably better off using your own script and changing the file name. You might want to do a search for nms formmail which is based on the original (with proper credit given), is open source and has security enhancements.