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Lecture 15 CGI Sessions Perl

Lecture 15 CGI Sessions Perl. CPE 401 / 601 Computer Network Systems. slides are modified from Dave Hollinger and Shwen Ho. Sessions. Many web sites allow you to establish a session. you identify yourself to the system.

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Lecture 15 CGI Sessions Perl

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  1. Lecture 15CGI SessionsPerl CPE 401 / 601Computer Network Systems slides are modified from Dave Hollinger and Shwen Ho

  2. Sessions • Many web sites allow you to establish a session. • you identify yourself to the system. • now you can visit lots of pages, add stuff to shopping cart, establish preferences, etc. CGI Sessions

  3. State Information • Remember that each HTTP request is unrelated to any other • as far as the Web server is concerned • Each new request to a CGI program starts up a brand new copy of the CGI program. • Providing sessions requires keeping state information. CGI Sessions

  4. Session Conversation Client Server Hi! I'm Joe. CGI1 Hi Joe (it's him again) Welcome Back... I wanna buy a cookie. CGI2 OK Joe, it will be there tomorrow. CGI Sessions

  5. Hidden Field Usage • One way to propagate state information is to use hidden fields. • User identifies themselves to a CGI program • fills out a form • CGI sends back a form that contains hidden fields that identify the user or session. CGI Sessions

  6. Revised Conversation Initial form has field for user name. GET /cgi1?name=joe HTTP/1.0 CGI1 creates order form with hidden field. GET/cgi2?name=joe&order=cookie HTTP/1.0 CGI Sessions

  7. Session Keys • Many Web based systems use hidden fields that identify a session. • When the first request arrives, the system generates a unique session key and stores it in a database. • The session key can be included in all forms/links generated by the system • as a hidden field or embedded in a link CGI Sessions

  8. Session Key Properties • Must be unique. • Should expire after a while. • Should be difficult to predict. • typically use a pseudo-random number generator seeded carefully. CGI Sessions

  9. Pizza Server Session Keys • We define a server to use session keys: <INPUT TYPE=HIDDEN NAME=sessionkey VALUE=HungryStudent971890237> • A request to order a pizza might look like this • all on one line GET /pizza.cgi?sessionkey= HungryStudent971890237&pizza=cheese&size=large HTTP/1.0 CGI Sessions

  10. HTTP Cookies • A "cookie' is a name,value pair that a CGI program can ask the client to remember. • The client sends this name,value pair along with every request to the CGI. • We can also use "cookies" to propagate state information. CGI Sessions

  11. Cookies are HTTP • Cookies are HTTP headers. • A server (CGI) can give the browser a cookie by sending a Set-Cookie header line with the response. • A client can send back a cookie by sending a Cookie header line with the request. CGI Sessions

  12. Set-Cookie Header Options The general form of the Set-Cookie header is: Set-Cookie: name=value; options The options include: expires=... domain=... path=... CGI Sessions

  13. Setting a cookie HTTP/1.0 200 OK Content-Type: text/html Set-Cookie: customerid=0192825 Content-Length: 12345 ... CGI Sessions

  14. expires Option • This tells the browser how long to hang on to the cookie. • The time/date format is very specific! expires=Friday 29-Feb-2000 00:00:00 GMT Weekday, Day-Month-Year Hour:Minute:Second GMT CGI Sessions

  15. Default expiration • If there is no expires option on the Set-Cookie header line, • the browser does not save the cookie to disk. • In this case, when the browser is closed it will forget about the cookie. CGI Sessions

  16. domain Option domain=.unr.edu • The domain option tells the browser the domain(s) to which it should send the cookie. • Domains as in DNS. • The domain must start with "." and contain at least one additional "." CGI Sessions

  17. Domain option rules • The server that sends the Set-Cookie header must be in the domain specified. • If no domain option is in the header, the cookie will only be sent to the same server. Default Behavior : CGI Sessions

  18. path Option path=/ or path=/~mgunes/cpe401 • The path option tells the browser what URLs the cookie should be sent to. CGI Sessions

  19. path default • If no path is specified in the header, • the cookie is sent to only those URLs that have the same path as the URL that set the cookie. • A path is the leading part of the URL • does not include the filename CGI Sessions

  20. Default Path Example If the cookie is sent from: /~mgunes/cpe401/pizza/pizza.cgi it would also be sent to /~mgunes/cpe401/pizza/blah.cgi but not to /~mgunes/cpe401/soda/pizza.cgi CGI Sessions

  21. Set-Cookie Fields • Many options can be specified. • Things are separated by ";" Set-Cookie: a=blah; path=/; domain=.cse.unrr.edu; expires=Thursday, 21-Feb-2002 12:41:07 2002 All must be on one line! CGI Sessions

  22. CGI cookie creation • A CGI program can send back any number of HTTP headers. • can set multiple cookies • Content-Type is required! • Blank line ends the headers! CGI Sessions

  23. C Example printf("Content-Type: text/html\r\n"); printf("Set-Cookie: prefs=nofrms\r\n"); printf("Set-Cookie: Java=yes\r\n"); printf("\r\n"); … now sends document content CGI Sessions

  24. Getting HTTP Cookies • The browser sends each cookie as a header: Cookie: prefs=nofrms Cookie: Java=OK • The Web server gives the cookies to the CGI program via an environment variable. CGI Sessions

  25. Multiple Cookies • There can be more than one cookie. • The Web Server puts them all together like this: prefs=nofrms; Java=OK and puts this string in the environment variable: HTTP_COOKIE CGI Sessions

  26. Cookie Limits • Each cookie can be up to 4k bytes. • One "site" can store up to 20 cookies on a user's machine. CGI Sessions

  27. Cookie Usage • Create a session. • Track user browsing behavior. • Keep track of user preferences. • Avoid logins. CGI Sessions

  28. Cookies and Privacy • Cookies can't be used to: • send personal information to a web server without the user knowing about it. • be used to send viruses to a browser. • find out what other web sites a user has visited.* • access a user's hard disk * although they can come pretty close to this one! CGI Sessions

  29. Some Issues • Persistent cookies take up space on user's hard disk. • Can be used to track your behavior within a web site. • This information can be sold or shared. • Cookies can be shared by cooperating sites • advertising agencies do this. CGI Sessions

  30. Perl • Practical Extration and Reporting Language • a high-level programming language • whose semantics are largely based on C • Designed for text manipulation • Very fast to implement • particularly strong at process, file and text manipulation • Runs on many different platform • Windows, Mac, Unix, Linux, Dos, etc Perl

  31. Running Perl • Perl scripts do not need to be compiled • interpreted at the point of execution • do not necessarily have a particular file extension • “.pl” is used commonly • Executing it via the command line command line> perl script.pl arg1 arg2 ... • Or add the line "#!/usr/bin/perl" to the start of the script if you are using unix/linux ./perlscript.pl • Remember to set the correct file execution permissions before running it Perl

  32. Beginning Perl • Every statement end with a semi colon ";" • Comments are prefixed at the start of the line with a hash "#" • Variables are assigned a value using the "=" • Variables are not statically typed, • No need to declare what kind of data you want to hold in them. • Variables are declared the first time you initialize them and they can be anywhere in the program. Perl

  33. Scalar Variables • Contains single piece of data • '$' character shows that a variable is scalar • Scalar variables can store • number • string • a chunk of text surrounded by quotes $name = "paul"; $year = 1980; print "$name is born in $year"; output: paul is born in 1980 Perl

  34. Arrays Variables (List) • Ordered list of data, separated by commas • '@' character shows that a variable is an array Array of numbers @year_of_birth = (1980, 1975, 1999); Array of string @name = ("Paul", "Jake", "Tom"); Array of both string and numbers @paul_address = (14,"Cleveland St","NSW",2030); Perl

  35. Retrieving data from Arrays • Printing Arrays @name = ("Paul", "Jake", "Tom"); print "@name"; • Accessing individual elements in an array @name = ("Paul", "Jake", "Tom"); print "$name[1]"; • What has changed? @name to $name • To access individual elements use the syntax $array[index] • Why did $name[1] print the second element? • index 0 represents the first element. Perl

  36. Arrays … @name = ("Paul", "Jake", "Tom"); Perl

  37. Basic Arithmetic Operators + Addition - Subtraction * multiplication / division ++ adding one to the variable -- subtracting one from the variable $a += 2 incrementing variable by 2 $b *= 3 tripling the value of the variable Perl

  38. Relational Operators Perl

  39. Control Operators - If if ( expression 1) { ... } elsif (expression 2) { ... } else { ... } Perl

  40. Iteration Structures • while (CONDITION) { BLOCK } • until (CONDITION) {BLOCK} • do {BLOCK} while (CONDITION) • for (INITIALIZATION ; CONDITION ; Re-INITIALIZATION) {BLOCK} • foreach VAR (LIST) {BLOCK} • for VAR (LIST) {BLOCK} Perl

  41. Iteration Structures $i = 1; while($i <= 5){ print "$i\n"; $i++; } for($x=1; $x <=5; $x++) { print "$x\n"; } @array = [1,2,3,4,5]; foreach $number (@array){ print "$number\n"; } Perl

  42. String Operations • Strings can be concatenated with the dot operator $lastname = "Harrison"; $firstname = "Paul"; $name = $firstname . $lastname; $name = "$firstname$lastname"; • Comparison can be done with the relational operator $string1 = "hello"; $string2 = "hello"; if ($string1 eq $string2) { print "they are equal"; } else { print "they are different"; } Perl

  43. String comparison using patterns • The ‘=~ ’ operator return true if the pattern within the ‘/’ quotes are found. $string1 = "HELLO"; $string2 = "Hi there"; # test if the string contains the pattern EL if ($string1 =~ /EL/) { print "This string contains the pattern"; } else { print "No pattern found"; } Perl

  44. Functions in Perl • No strict variable type restriction during function call • Perl has provided lots of useful functions • chop - remove the first character of a string • chomp - remove the carriage return character from the end of a string • push - append one or more element into an array • pop - remove the last element of an array and return it • shift - remove the first element of an array and return it • s - replace a pattern with a string Perl

  45. Functions in Perl • The "split" function breaks a given string into individual segments given a delimiter • split( /pattern/, string) returns a list @output = split (/\s/, $string); # breaks the sentence into words @output = split (//, $string); # breaks the sentence into single characters @output = split (/,/, $string); # breaks the sentence into chunks separated by a comma. • join ( /delimiter/, array) returns a string Perl

  46. Functions in Perl A simple perl function sub sayHello { print "Hello!!\n"; } sayHello(); Perl

  47. Executing functions in Perl • Function arguments are stored automatically in a temporary array called @_ sub sayHelloto { @name = @_; $count = @_; foreach $person (@name){ print "Hello $person\n"; } return $count; } @array = ("Paul", "Jake", "Tom"); sayHelloto(@array); sayHelloto("Mary", "Jane", "Tylor", 1, 2, 3); Perl

  48. Input / Output • Perl allows you to read in any input that is automatically sent to your program via standard input by using the handle <STDIN>. • Other I/O topics include reading and writing to files, Standard Error (STDERR) and Standard Output (STDOUT). • One way of handling inputs via <STDIN> is to use a loop to process every line of input Perl

  49. Input / Output • Count the number of lines from standard input and • print the line number together with the 1st word of each line. $count = 1; foreach $line (<STDIN>){ @array = split(/\s/, $line); print "$count $array[0]\n"; $count++; } Perl

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