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I want to write a large, complex CGI program.
However, I do *not* feel like installing and configuring Apache just so
I can run my CGI program.
Does *anybody* know of a nice, simple little program that will accept
HTTP requests and pass them to my CGI program? All I really want is a
tiny little program to parse the HTTP headers, feed them into my CGI
program, and pass back the answers to the web browser. But I can't seem
to find anything that will do that... All I can find is full-featured
web servers that you have to install and configure. I just want a
single-file executable... Anybody know of one?
--
http://blog.orphi.me.uk/
http://www.zazzle.com/MathematicalOrchid*
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Invisible <voi### [at] dev null> wrote:
> Does *anybody* know of a nice, simple little program that will accept
> HTTP requests and pass them to my CGI program?
Any unix command-line shell will do. HTTP is pure ascii.
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- Warp
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Warp wrote:
> Invisible <voi### [at] devnull> wrote:
>> Does *anybody* know of a nice, simple little program that will accept
>> HTTP requests and pass them to my CGI program?
>
> Any unix command-line shell will do. HTTP is pure ascii.
Yes, but parsing a HTTP request, putting the various parts of the
request into the necessary environment variables and piping to stdin
while running the CGI binary, parsing its output and adding HTTP headers
to send back to the web browser is... quite a lot of work. And a billion
opportunities for mistakes. Surely I can't be the first person on Earth
to have wanted to quickly test a CGI script without having to install a
web server?
--
http://blog.orphi.me.uk/
http://www.zazzle.com/MathematicalOrchid*
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Invisible wrote:
> I want to write a large, complex CGI program.
>
> However, I do *not* feel like installing and configuring Apache just so
> I can run my CGI program.
>
> Does *anybody* know of a nice, simple little program that will accept
> HTTP requests and pass them to my CGI program? All I really want is a
> tiny little program to parse the HTTP headers, feed them into my CGI
> program, and pass back the answers to the web browser. But I can't seem
> to find anything that will do that... All I can find is full-featured
> web servers that you have to install and configure. I just want a
> single-file executable... Anybody know of one?
Maybe this one will work:
http://shttpd.sourceforge.net/
My Linux programming book has a simple server described in one of it's
chapters, but it's too long to type out here.
Regards,
John
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Invisible a écrit :
> Warp wrote:
>> Invisible <voi### [at] devnull> wrote:
>>> Does *anybody* know of a nice, simple little program that will accept
>>> HTTP requests and pass them to my CGI program?
>>
>> Any unix command-line shell will do. HTTP is pure ascii.
>
> Yes, but parsing a HTTP request, putting the various parts of the
> request into the necessary environment variables and piping to stdin
> while running the CGI binary, parsing its output and adding HTTP headers
> to send back to the web browser is... quite a lot of work. And a billion
> opportunities for mistakes. Surely I can't be the first person on Earth
> to have wanted to quickly test a CGI script without having to install a
> web server?
>
But what you describe looks awfully like a web server to me... Surely
there are some on this page that have a very minimal configuration:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tiny_web_servers
I tried hiawatha and nullhttpd here and it seems to work. Didn't try CGI
though, and I'm on linux... Nullhttpd does not seem to be very nicely
documented though.
--
Vincent
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Vincent Le Chevalier wrote:
> But what you describe looks awfully like a web server to me...
Yeah - except that I don't *need* HTTPS, virtual hosting, customisable
HTTP error pages, multi-level access control with permission seperation,
complex logging facilities, the ability to run as a background service,
or any of the myriad of other stuff that a "real" HTTP server needs to
have. I just need something to run CGI binaries.
> Surely
> there are some on this page that have a very minimal configuration:
>
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tiny_web_servers
I had a look here this morning. Sadly, almost everything requires you to
"install" it before you can use it. I was hoping for a single executable
solution.
--
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http://www.zazzle.com/MathematicalOrchid*
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John VanSickle wrote:
> Maybe this one will work:
>
> http://shttpd.sourceforge.net/
Looks promising...
--
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http://www.zazzle.com/MathematicalOrchid*
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>> Maybe this one will work:
>>
>> http://shttpd.sourceforge.net/
>
> Looks promising...
Hmm. Seems to work perfectly, except for two things:
1. For some reason, it takes about 45 seconds to start up. No CPU usage,
no network activity, it just seems to hang for 45 seconds. And then it
works normally.
2. It seems to be able to run CGI *scripts*, but not compiled,
executable binary programs. I'm still frobbing the configuration file,
but it's not looking good...
--
http://blog.orphi.me.uk/
http://www.zazzle.com/MathematicalOrchid*
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Orchid XP v8 wrote:
> 2. It seems to be able to run CGI *scripts*, but not compiled,
> executable binary programs. I'm still frobbing the configuration file,
> but it's not looking good...
OK, *finally*...
Create a small file called Foo.cgi that simply contains the line
#!Foo.exe
and *at last* the server does what I want it to!
--
http://blog.orphi.me.uk/
http://www.zazzle.com/MathematicalOrchid*
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Vincent Le Chevalier <gal### [at] libertyallsurfspamfr> wrote:
> But what you describe looks awfully like a web server to me...
Yeah. He wants a web server without installing a web server.
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Invisible wrote:
> I want to write a large, complex CGI program.
>
> However, I do *not* feel like installing and configuring Apache just so
> I can run my CGI program.
>
> Does *anybody* know of a nice, simple little program that will accept
> HTTP requests and pass them to my CGI program? All I really want is a
> tiny little program to parse the HTTP headers, feed them into my CGI
> program, and pass back the answers to the web browser. But I can't seem
> to find anything that will do that... All I can find is full-featured
> web servers that you have to install and configure. I just want a
> single-file executable... Anybody know of one?
In KDE, in any kioslaves-enabled application (like the Konqueror browser),
you can use cgi:/home/invisible/mycgiapp as a URL and it will just work :)
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Warp wrote:
> Yeah. He wants a web server without installing a web server.
And I got one. Yay for me! :-)
--
http://blog.orphi.me.uk/
http://www.zazzle.com/MathematicalOrchid*
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Orchid XP v8 a écrit :
> Orchid XP v8 wrote:
>
>> 2. It seems to be able to run CGI *scripts*, but not compiled,
>> executable binary programs. I'm still frobbing the configuration file,
>> but it's not looking good...
>
> OK, *finally*...
>
> Create a small file called Foo.cgi that simply contains the line
>
> #!Foo.exe
>
> and *at last* the server does what I want it to!
>
Apparently this server only checks the extensions of the files, so you
could just rename Foo.exe to Foo.cgi I suppose. Or better still, launch
shttpd with the appropriate option telling it that .exe are CGI files:
shttpd -cgi_ext "exe"
Seems to work on my linux box with any arbitrary extension...
--
Vincent
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>> OK, *finally*...
>>
>> Create a small file called Foo.cgi that simply contains the line
>>
>> #!Foo.exe
>>
>> and *at last* the server does what I want it to!
>>
> Apparently this server only checks the extensions of the files, so you
> could just rename Foo.exe to Foo.cgi I suppose.
I tried that, but it doesn't work. If it's .cgi, it "checks the first
line of text to determine what interpretter to run".
> Or better still, launch
> shttpd with the appropriate option telling it that .exe are CGI files:
>
> shttpd -cgi_ext "exe"
Also tried that and it didn't work.
The hack above does, however, work.
--
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http://www.zazzle.com/MathematicalOrchid*
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Orchid XP v8 <voi### [at] devnull> wrote:
> Warp wrote:
> > Yeah. He wants a web server without installing a web server.
> And I got one. Yay for me! :-)
You got a web server and you didn't install it? How can that work?
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Orchid XP v8 a écrit :
>> Or better still, launch shttpd with the appropriate option telling it
>> that .exe are CGI files:
>>
>> shttpd -cgi_ext "exe"
>
> Also tried that and it didn't work.
>
> The hack above does, however, work.
>
OK, so that's one more reason for me to keep running Linux I guess,
where it works fine and starts instantaneously :-)
Maybe you should throw a note to the author though, perhaps the
behaviour on Windows is not what's intended...
--
Vincent
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Warp wrote:
> You got a web server and you didn't install it? How can that work?
You put the executable file in a directory, double-click it, and it
runs. Nothing to install, nothing to uninstall afterwards. And only a
few hundred KB too. Which is basically what I was looking for...
--
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http://www.zazzle.com/MathematicalOrchid*
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Orchid XP v8 wrote:
> Warp wrote:
>
>> You got a web server and you didn't install it? How can that work?
>
> You put the executable file in a directory, double-click it, and it
> runs. Nothing to install, nothing to uninstall afterwards. And only a
> few hundred KB too. Which is basically what I was looking for...
>
So you've installed it. OTOH you haven't needed to configure it or your
system.
John
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"Eppur si muove" - Galileo Galilei
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Orchid XP v8 <voi### [at] devnull> wrote:
> Warp wrote:
> > You got a web server and you didn't install it? How can that work?
> You put the executable file in a directory, double-click it, and it
> runs. Nothing to install, nothing to uninstall afterwards. And only a
> few hundred KB too. Which is basically what I was looking for...
We clearly have completely different definitions of "installing a
program".
--
- Warp
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Warp wrote:
> We clearly have completely different definitions of "installing a
> program".
Yes.
To me, if you can use a program just by running it, that's not
"installing" it.
If, however, you have to insert DLLs into particular folders, create
registry keys and configure environment variables, that's "installing"
something.
The former means you can just drop the binary only (say) a USB flash
drive and use it anywhere. The latter means that you have to do some
setup (and probably removal) at every PC.
--
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Orchid XP v8 <voi### [at] devnull> wrote:
> Warp wrote:
> > We clearly have completely different definitions of "installing a
> > program".
> Yes.
My definition of "installing" is clear and unambiguous. Your definition
is rather fuzzy.
> To me, if you can use a program just by running it, that's not
> "installing" it.
> If, however, you have to insert DLLs into particular folders, create
> registry keys and configure environment variables, that's "installing"
> something.
What if it doesn't install DLLs but creates registy keys and configures
environment variables? Is it then installing? What if it doesn't configure
environment variables? Is it still installing? What if it installs DLLs
but doesn't create a registry key?
> The former means you can just drop the binary only (say) a USB flash
> drive and use it anywhere. The latter means that you have to do some
> setup (and probably removal) at every PC.
But you didn't "drop the binary only a USB flash drive" (whatever that
may mean). You installed it in your system.
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I've used thttpd in a number of embedded systems. Seems to do the job well
and is a single executable.
-- Chris
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Orchid XP v8 wrote:
> I had a look here this morning. Sadly, almost everything requires you to
> "install" it before you can use it. I was hoping for a single executable
> solution.
http://www.tcl.tk/software/tclhttpd/
The TclHttpd Starkit distribution includes the server code, the required
TclLib modules, and a sample document tree in a single file for easy
deployment. Just run the starkit with the TclKit interpreter. It takes
all the same command line arguments as bin/httpd.tcl. Using the sdx tool
that wraps and unwraps Starkits, you can assemble your own custom
TclHttpd application Starkit.
--
Darren New / San Diego, CA, USA (PST)
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Orchid XP v8 wrote:
> OK, *finally*...
>
> Create a small file called Foo.cgi that simply contains the line
>
> #!Foo.exe
>
> and *at last* the server does what I want it to!
Now I'm confused! I just tried this at work... and it fails. WTF?
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Chris Cason wrote:
> I've used thttpd in a number of embedded systems. Seems to do the job well
> and is a single executable.
Unfortunately, I can't find a precompiled Windows binary anywhere...
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