cgiFree(3)

💖 cgiFree(3) 💖

okay bestie, listen up — this is a page from the Programmer's Manual, and it's about the little cleanup icon that is cgiFree. It's short, it's sweet, and it's the moment your CGI program gets its memory back. 🧹✨

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🌸 NAME 🌸

cgiFree — frees the CGI data structure 🫶

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📜 SYNOPSYS 📜

#include <cgi.h>

void cgiFree (s_cgi *parms);

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🦋 DESCRIPTION 🦋

So basically, this routine frees the memory that the CGI parsing routines allocated for you. Not only that — temporary files from CGI file upload also get removed. It's literally the opposite of cgiInit(3), the way cgiInit said "hey let's build a whole world" and cgiFree says "and now we're closing the group chat." 💀

After this routine was called, no variables, no cookies, no files, and no additional header lines are available. Gone. Poof. 🎀 The result type is also reset to "text/html" — so yeah, everything goes back to default, no cap.

⚠️ fr fr: call this one after you're done reading everything you needed. Once it runs, that data is not coming back. No takebacks. 🙈

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👑 AUTHOR 👑

This CGI library is written by Martin Schulze <joey@infodrom.org>. If you have additions or improvements, please get in touch with him — he genuinely wants to hear from you, and honestly? That's main character energy. 💅

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🌈 SEE ALSO 🌈

• cgiInit(3)
• cgiDebug(3)
• cgiHeader(3)
• cgiSetHeader(3)
• cgiSetType(3)
• cgiGetValue(3)
• cgiGetVariables(3)
• cgiGetCookie(3)
• cgiGetCookies(3)

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and that's the whole page, bestie — you ate it, you understood it, you're now officially fluent in freeing your CGI data structure. 💜

This lil page came to you from the CGI Library, dated 6 April 2008, and yeah — it's still iconic all these years later. cgiFree(3) out. 🎀⭐🦋