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Date: Mon,  2 Jun 2003 12:55:48 +0100
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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