I think it'd be a lot harder w/o a framework since you'd have to deal with a lot more low level stuff. Webapp is pretty much the most minimalistic cgi framewor

I think it'd be a lot harder w/o a framework since you'd have to deal with a lot more low level stuff. Webapp is pretty much the most minimalistic cgi framework you'll find... Though there is a lot of interesting stuff you could do with a lower level of access to the datastore.