More CGI Stuff

[Yennie at aol.com]

Hi guys,

With all of this CGI talk lately, I cooked something up.
I've been working with a server program based on the ol' mc httpd stack, 
since I make heavy use of Valentina. However, I've always wanted to break it 
down into separate cgi scripts. Among other things, that gives me multiple 
processes more easily.

So my question... is there *any* way to access externals (including the new 
Mach-o ones with 2.4.3) from a CGI script?

The best I can come up with is running a separate stack which houses the 
external, and communicating via sockets.

Any ideas?

In case anyone finds this script useful, this is what I'm using to talk to my 
mc httpd-inspired stack:

#!mc
on startup
   open socket to "127.0.0.1:8080"

   put $REQUEST_METHOD&&$REQUEST_URI&&"CGI"&crLF into theRequest
   if ($HTTP_COOKIE is not empty) then
     put "Cookie: "&$HTTP_COOKIE&crLF after theRequest
   end if
   if ($REMOTE_USER is not empty) then
     put "Remote-User:"&&$REMOTE_USER&crLF after theRequest
   end if

   if ($REQUEST_METHOD = "PUT") then
     read from stdin until empty
     put crLF&it after theRequest
   end if

   write theRequest&crLF&crLF to socket "127.0.0.1:8080"

   read from socket "127.0.0.1:8080" until (crLF&crLF)
   put it into theHeaders
   put lineOffset(theHeaders, "Content-Length:") into theLine
   if (theLine > 0) then
     set the itemDelimiter to ":"
     put item 2 of line theLine of theHeaders into theLength
     read from socket "127.0.0.1:8080" for theLength
     put it into theBody
   else
     read from socket "127.0.0.1:8080" until empty
     put it into theBody
   end if

   ## delete the status line
   delete line 1 of theHeaders
   put (theHeaders&crLF&crLF&theBody)
end startup

Best Regards,
Brian
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