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Web Server Design Week 14

Web Server Design Week 14. Old Dominion University Department of Computer Science CS 495/595 Spring 2010 Martin Klein <mklein@cs.odu.edu> 4/14/10. GET /foo.cgi HTTP/1.1. foo.cgi. 200 OK. Common Gateway Interface. A method for remotely invoking executable programs on a server

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Web Server Design Week 14

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  1. Web Server DesignWeek 14 Old Dominion University Department of Computer Science CS 495/595 Spring 2010 Martin Klein <mklein@cs.odu.edu> 4/14/10

  2. GET /foo.cgi HTTP/1.1 foo.cgi 200 OK Common Gateway Interface • A method for remotely invoking executable programs on a server • A long-time convention • http://web.archive.org/web/20071023072800/http://hoohoo.ncsa.uiuc.edu/cgi/ • finally defined in RFC 3875 client server

  3. CGI Invocation • How Apache does it: • http://httpd.apache.org/docs/2.0/mod/mod_cgi.html • We’ll live slightly more dangerously: • any executable (non-directory) file can be invoked as CGI with: • POST • GET w/ query string • e.g. /a/b/c.cgi?var1=foo&var2=bar

  4. CGI Operation • The CGI program is responsible for returning (on STDOUT) some combination of its own headers: • Content-type • Location • Status • and other locally-defined headers • Script-returned headers are: • collected by the server • processed; e.g.: • “Location” -> HTTP/1.1 302 Found • Status -> HTTP response code line • combined with the server’s headers • Resulting headers are returned to the client

  5. Status % more status.cgi #!/usr/bin/perl print "Status: 678 This is not a real HTTP status code\n\n"; mk$ telnet www.cs.odu.edu 80 Trying 128.82.4.2... Connected to xenon.cs.odu.edu. Escape character is '^]'. GET /~mklein/teaching/cs595-s10/cgi/status.cgi HTTP/1.1 Host: www.cs.odu.edu Connection: close HTTP/1.1 678 This is not a real HTTP status code Date: Wed, 14 Apr 2010 13:55:05 GMT Server: Apache/2.2.14 (Unix) DAV/2 PHP/5.2.11 Content-Length: 0 Connection: close Content-Type: text/plain Connection closed by foreign host.

  6. Location % more location.cgi #!/usr/bin/perl print "Location: http://www.cs.odu.edu/~mklein/\n\n"; mk$ telnet www.cs.odu.edu 80 Trying 128.82.4.2... Connected to xenon.cs.odu.edu. Escape character is '^]'. GET /~mklein/teaching/cs595-s10/cgi/location.cgi HTTP/1.1 Host: www.cs.odu.edu Connection: close HTTP/1.1 302 Found Date: Wed, 14 Apr 2010 13:58:01 GMT Server: Apache/2.2.14 (Unix) DAV/2 PHP/5.2.11 Location: http://www.cs.odu.edu/~mklein/ Content-Length: 309 Connection: close Content-Type: text/html; charset=iso-8859-1 <!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//IETF//DTD HTML 2.0//EN"> <html><head> <title>302 Found</title> </head><body> <h1>Found</h1> <p>The document has moved <a href="http://www.cs.odu.edu/~mklein/">here</a>.</p> <hr> <address>Apache/2.2.14 (Unix) DAV/2 PHP/5.2.11 Server at www.cs.odu.edu Port 80</address> </body></html> Connection closed by foreign host.

  7. Content-type % more ls.cgi #!/usr/bin/perl print "Content-type: text/plain\n\n"; $ls = `ls -alR`; print "$ls\n"; mk$ telnet www.cs.odu.edu 80 Trying 128.82.4.2... Connected to xenon.cs.odu.edu. Escape character is '^]'. HEAD /~mklein/teaching/cs595-s10/cgi/ls.cgi HTTP/1.1 Host: www.cs.odu.edu Connection: close HTTP/1.1 200 OK Date: Wed, 14 Apr 2010 14:01:57 GMT Server: Apache/2.2.14 (Unix) DAV/2 PHP/5.2.11 Connection: close Content-Type: text/plain Connection closed by foreign host.

  8. CGI Environment • Section 4.1, RFC 3875 • AUTH_TYPE, CONTENT_LENGTH, CONTENT_TYPE, GATEWAY_INTERFACE, PATH_INFO, PATH_TRANSLATED, QUERY_STRING, REMOTE_ADDR, REMOTE_HOST, REMOTE_IDENT, REMOTE_USER, REQUEST_METHOD, SCRIPT_NAME, SERVER_NAME, SERVER_PORT, SERVER_PROTOCOL, SERVER_SOFTWARE • In practice, slightly different: • http://www.cs.odu.edu/~mklein/teaching/cs595-s10/cgi/env.cgi

  9. How to Customize the Environment? • C: • fork() & execve() • Perl: • set %ENV • fork() & exec() • Python: • set %ENV • fork () & execve() • Others??? • please share w/ the list

  10. ENV & CGI Examples #!/usr/bin/perl print "Content-type: text/html\n\n"; foreach $key (keys (%ENV)) { print "$key = $ENV{$key} <br>\n"; } while (<STDIN>) { print "$_<br>\n"; } {GET, POST} X {multipart/form-data, application/x-form-www-urlencoded} http://www.cs.odu.edu/~mklein/teaching/cs595-s10/cgi/

  11. Advanced Topics: “Soft 404s” • foo.edu/lookup.php?key=123456 • what http status code do you return if: • script “lookup.php” exists and has no syntax errors • but key 123456 is deleted or invalid • Semantic events: • http - 200 • database - bad key • reading: • “Sic Transit Gloria Telae: Towards an Understanding of the Web’s Decay” • http://doi.acm.org/10.1145/988672.988716

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