I now have the script below. I was slightly surprised it didn't get an
error as I had it load /usr/lib/ocaml/3.08.3/cgi/netcgi.cma, and the
directory contains:
cgi.a
netcgi_env.cmi
netcgi_fcgi.mli
netcgi_jserv.cmi
cgi.cma netcgi_env.mli netcgi_jserv_ajp12.cmi netcgi_jserv.mli
cgi.cmxa netcgi_fcgi_10.cmi netcgi_jserv_ajp12.mli netcgi.mli
META netcgi_fcgi_10.mli netcgi_jserv_app.cmi netcgi_types.cmi
netcgi.cmi netcgi_fcgi.cmi netcgi_jserv_app.mli netcgi_types.mli
When I run it, I get a different and shorter error message:
File "./demo.ml", line 35, characters 2-5:
Syntax error
The line in question is:
| "1" -> "Yes"
Is there some irritating little syntax error around line 35?
--
#!/usr/bin/ocamlrun ocaml
(* Change the directories as needed for your system. *)
#directory "+pcre";;
#load "pcre.cma";;
#load "unix.cma";;
#directory "+netstring";;
#load "netstring.cma";;
#directory "/usr/lib/ocaml/3.08.3/cgi/";;
#load "netcgi.cma";;
open Netcgi
let text = Netencoding.Html.encode_from_latin1
(* This function encodes "<", ">", "&", double quotes, and Latin 1
characters as character entities. E.g. text "<" = "<", and
text "ä" = "ä" *)
(* Normally you would use a template system instead of this *)
let html_page (cgi:cgi) title html =
let out = cgi#out_channel#output_string in
out "<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC \"-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0//EN\" \
\" http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-html40/strict.dtd\">\n";
out ("<html>\n<head><title>" ^ text title ^"</title></head>
<body>\n");
out html;
out "</body>\n</html>"
let main (cgi:cgi) =
cgi#set_header
~cache:`No_cache
~content_type:"text/html; charset=\"iso-8859-1\""
();
let foo = cgi#argument_value "foo"
let html = match foo with
| "1" -> "Yes"
| "0" -> "No"
| _ -> "Undefined" in
html_page cgi foo html
(* You can buffer or not the output. If buffered you can rollback
(useful in case of error). You can replace Netcgi_cgi.run by
another connector entry point (FCGI, SCGI, AJP, Apache mod). *)
let () =
let buffered _ ch = new Netchannels.buffered_trans_channel ch in
Netcgi_cgi.run ~output_type:(`Transactional buffered) main
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