Cgi Dialer Documentation

 
  • Installation
    Extract cgidial zip archive to your cgi-bin directory. You can also create a subdirectory containing requested files. Now you can verify if it works, simply going to the script url, e.g. http://localhost/cgi-bin/cgidial.exe (http://localhost/cgi-bin/dialer/cgidial.exe if you have created the dialer subdirectory).
  • Security tips
    Perhaps you don't want to grant everyone access to your dialer page. To do so, you have to denie access to everyone and grant access to a list of specific addresses, probably assigned to some intranet machines. If you want a more strict control, you can also disable anonymous accesses to the cgi dialer script and enable some type of authentication (user will be asked for userid and password when trying an intranet connection to the dialer script).
  • Configuration
    Cgi Dialer
    uses three templates files: cgidial.htm, cgidialreply.htm, cgidialstat.htm. You can edit these files with a text editor; please, be careful and don't use any WYSIWYG editor! Html comments (such as <!comment>) must be preserved, as they can contain embedded variables that are to be used by the dialer script. Here is a list of these custom tags:
    • <!server> will be replaced by the name of the computer where cgidial.exe resides.
    • <!selection> will be replaced by an "option" list of your internet connections.
    • <!users>  will be replaced by a comma-separated list of internet users (for javascript).
    • <!passwords>  will be replaced by a comma-separated list of internet passwords. To preserve security, passwords are encrypted.
    • <!provider> will be replaced by the name of the current internet connection (NOT for cgidial.htm).
    • <!url> will be replaced by the url of the cgi dialer script.
  • License
    This program is freeware; however, it is not "open source". You use this software "as is", at your own risk. Author can't be held responsible for any problem arising from the use/abuse of the program files.