Re: [9fans] httpd scripting

["David Butler" <gdb@dbSystems.com>]

I did a lot of work in the http area on Plan 9, back on
version 2 of the system. I took the approach that anything
is executable (compiled) instead of scripting. It was fast
and very flexible. Perhaps I can see what it takes to get
it on version 4 and make it available...

David

----- Original Message -----
From: "matt" <matt@proweb.co.uk>
To: <9fans@cse.psu.edu>
Sent: Monday, June 02, 2003 6:55 AM
Subject: Re: [9fans] httpd scripting


> Skip Tavakkolian wrote:
>
> >Has anyone done any deep thinking on this? I've just started
> >looking into it. I have looked at Pegasus, but I need something a
> >little more specialized.  My own preference is for an awk-like
environment
> >but nothing definite yet. I want to process code fragments inside
> >html docs, the same thing as jsp,asp,php, etc.
> >
>
> as someone who uses PHP (and previously ASP) professionally - don't 8)
>
> RC and friends is enough
>
> if want awk then use awk  8)
>
> as for cookies, headers etc. you just need a quick script to chuck the
> request into the environment (which is what PHP does)
>
> I did write a script to do it once
>
>
http://groups.google.com/groups?hl=en&lr=&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&safe=off&threadm=015d01c22ed3%24fcc596e0%246501a8c0%40KIKE&rnum=1&prev=/groups%3Fq%3Dgroup:comp.os.plan9%2Bhttpd%2Bmatt%26hl%3Den%26lr%3D%26ie%3DUTF-8%26oe%3DUTF-8%26safe%3Doff%26selm%3D015d01c22ed3%2524fcc596e0%25246501a8c0%2540KIKE%26rnum%3D1
>
> but I seem to have lost the code during a re-install (curses for putting
> the magic directory outside of /usr )
>
> All you really need to do is split the headers on the first colon :
> ([^:]+): ?(.*)
>
> (after skipping past the first line)
> and then pop the results into the environment
>
> echo $match_2 > /env/$match_1
>
> when you run out of matches the rest of stdin is the body & you might
> even be able to trust the Content-Length value
>
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