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Using HTMLDOC as a CGI Program

HTMLDOC 1.8.24 and higher supports operation as a CGI program. You can copy or symlink the htmldoc (all but Windows) or htmldoc.exe (Windows) executable to your web server's cgi-bin directory and then use it to produce PDF versions of your web pages.

The CGI converts a page on your local server to PDF and sends it to the client's web browser. For example, to convert a page called superproducts.html at the following URL:

    http://servername/superproducts.html

and if you installed HTMLDOC in your server's cgi-bin directory, you would direct your clients to the following URL:

    http://servername/cgi-bin/htmldoc/superproducts.html

The boldface portion represents the location of the HTMLDOC executable on the web server. You simply place that path before the page you want to convert.

Form data using the GET method can be passed at the end of the URL, for example:

    http://servername/cgi-bin/htmldoc/superproducts.html?name=value

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