From: schuerig@... (Michael Schuerig)
Date: 2001-01-29T07:40:02+09:00
Subject: [ruby-talk:10041] Using cgi.rb in miniature server?


I'm trying to write a simplistic server that's launched by inetd. From a
user perspective it looks like this

http://localhost:60000/searchdir?pattern=ruby+dir=/usr/doc/ruby/manual

The point of this is to put a button in the toolbar of Netscape that
does some JavaScript twiddling (similar to what the Google buttons do)
and in effect connects to a "server" (my script) that searches the local
directory I'm currently viewing. (Yes, my firewall blocks port 60000!)

Now, I'd like to use the cgi class to parse the request for me. I read
the request from stdin with

    rawrequest = $stdin.sysread(1024) # ordinary read seems to block

and feed it to 

    request = CGI.parse(rawrequest)

it doesn't produce a sensible result.

Michael

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