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Date: Sun, 19 Apr 2009 19:02:55 -0300
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From: "Federico G. Benavento" <benavento@gmail.com>
To: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs <9fans@9fans.net>
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Subject: Re: [9fans] web server
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skip is pretty much on the point exactly the same convention is valid
for cgifs.

http://machine/cgifs/script?var0=3Dval0&var1=3Dval1

cgi as cgifs are programs that parse the requested uri and from there,
after the 2nd '/', get the script name "script" in the example above.

On Sun, Apr 19, 2009 at 2:05 PM, erik quanstrom <quanstro@quanstro.net> wro=
te:
> On Sun Apr 19 12:03:54 EDT 2009, 9nut@9netics.com wrote:
>> you could make local mods to your httpd so that paths starting with
>> /cgi are given similar treatment as those that start with /magic; it
>> would execute "cgi" and pass it the arguments as usual. =C2=A0then url i=
s:
>>
>> http://myserver/cgi/foo?var1=3D1&var2=3D2
>>
>> and in script "foo" the $QUERY_STRING will be "var1=3D1&var2=3D2"
>
> if you look at /sys/src/cmd/ip/httpd/init.c you'll see that
> argv[3] is the query string.
>
> minooka; g req.search init.c
> init.c:97: =C2=A0 =C2=A0 =C2=A0connect.req.search =3D argv[3];
>
> there has been some recent reorganization of httpd.c
> that i haven't carefully looked at.
>
> about the same time i made a few modifications of my
> own to eliminate some bad interactions between magic,
> @ and other redirections. =C2=A0i don't recall the senerio
> exactly, but depending on the situation, arguments
> could be parsed or not parsed.
>
> if anyone else needs that, i'd be glad to put it on sources.
>
> - erik
>
>



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