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Rust isn't magic. And you can write CGIs in any language. Shouldn't we also ask why are they using their own web server? or why a company with millions of devices deployed has done little testing?

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> Rust isn't magic.

Let's not going to that debate. It's a good start to improve security postures, regardless how you spin it.

But more importantly, my point is why are they doing CGI at all?

There is nothing wrong with CGI. It's simply a standard to forward a request from a web server to another application using environment variables and stdio. Generally, you want your router routing, not wasting CPU and memory running admin applications that are used less than once a month.

CGI is still great environment for simple webapp on embedded device. Using Rust is normally overkill and increases complexity. Python/PHP should be enough.

BTW quality of embedded webappa is mostly sucks.

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