SuperScript::Software::shttpd

The cgi-dispatch program

Interface

  cgi-dispatch

cgi-dispatch executes the program ./bin/prog, where prog is the value of the CGI environment variable PATH_INFO. cgi-dispatch is intended to be run under cgi-httpd or cgiuser-httpd.

Before executing the program, cgi-dispatch replaces // with / and /. with /: in the program path.

If it encounters an error in processing a request, cgi-dispatch exits 21. If it cannot find the requested program, cgi-dispatch issues an error response and exits 0. Otherwise, it returns the exit code of prog.

Running under cgi-shttpd

Configure a server to run cgi-dispatch under cgi-shttpd in the directory ROOT. Copy cgi-dispatch to ROOT/bin. Copy programs you want cgi-dispatch to run for requests to host into the directory ROOT/host/bin.