guest
might look like this:
<a href="/cgi-bin/finger?guest">finger me</a>The text after the question mark specifies the argument to finger.
Here's the reference in real life: finger me
Finger does different things depending on whether you are talking
to the internal webserver (http://web-int/
) or the
external webserver at http://www.cs.brown.edu/
.
Internally, the /cs/bin/f
command is used, because it
provides the best information.
On www.cs.brown.edu, the finger daemon on bullwinkle is queried. It supplies a filtered version of finger information, which affords local users some privacy.