[DGD] Re: httpd?

[Nico Lammers]

Okay.. this is starting to make sense... :)
*thinks*
So an object with just the receive_message() function should get me what
I want, basically?

I'm not all too sure about the structure of the lib.. and I basically have
no idea
what I need, or don't need for things like these..

-- Nico Lammers
n.lammers at home.nl



----- Original Message -----
From: "Erwin Harte" <harte at xs4all.nl>
To: <dgd at list.imaginary.com>
Sent: Monday, September 24, 2001 7:58 PM
Subject: Re: [DGD] Re: httpd?


> On Mon, Sep 24, 2001 at 08:51:42PM +0300, Risto Karjalainen wrote:
> > I once ran a little test with the binary port of DGD. I wrote a simple
> > object that had something like this in its receive_message function:
> >
> > void receive_message(string str)
> > {
> >   string filename, html, tmp;
> >
> >   sscanf(str, "GET %s %s", filename, tmp);
> >   html = read_file(filename);
> >   html = implode(explode(html, "\n"), "\r\n"); /* Newline conversion */
> >   send_message(html);
> >   destruct_object(this_object());
> > }
> >
> > It's very minimalistic and it hasn't any kind of error tolerance, plus
its
> > features are very limited. Although if I remember correctly, I got it to
> > work and send simple html documents to my browser. Also I remember I had
a
> > check if the file to send is an image, the newline conversion isn't
done.
>
> I think you can get away with not doing any newline conversion at all.
>
> > The code might not work on its own (untested by me), but it mightgive a
> > little pointer to the right direction.
>
> Hmm...
>
>     GET /kernel/sys/driver.c HTTP/1.0
>
> Fun. ;-)
>
> Minimal security setup would include:
> 1. Use a base directory other than the lib root.
> 2. Have the code check for .. path-entries in the request and either
>    resolve these entries before applying the base-directory, or
>    consider such requests illegal.
>
> Regards,
>
> Erwin.
> --
> Erwin Harte <harte at xs4all.nl>
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