• majbritt37 hotmail.com Jun 27 2003
• Burton Radons <loth users.sourceforge.net> Jun 27 2003
• "Walter" <walter digitalmars.com> Jul 02 2003

majbritt37 hotmail.com writes:

Hi,

I'm trying to write some CGI stuff in D. All I've done so far is a simple "Hello
world" program. What I need to know is how to get the server variables.
request_uri, remote_addr and all of those. Help is appreciated.

/Mårten

Burton Radons <loth users.sourceforge.net> writes:

majbritt37 hotmail.com wrote:

 I'm trying to write some CGI stuff in D. All I've done so far is a simple
"Hello
 world" program. What I need to know is how to get the server variables.
 request_uri, remote_addr and all of those. Help is appreciated.


The CGI specification is here:

http://hoohoo.ncsa.uiuc.edu/cgi/interface.html

CGI stores various variables in the environment.  You can retrieve them 
using getenv, such as with:

    private struct crt
    {
       static extern (C) char* getenv (char* varname);
    }

    char[] getenv (char[] varname)
    {
       return toString (crt.getenv (toStringz (varname)));
    }

If you're feeling up to it, a CGI library would be a valuable 
contribution to the community because of the many obscure elements about 
the interface.  The Python module for it is documented here 
(http://www.python.org/doc/current/lib/module-cgi.html); I've never used 
it, so I don't know how good it would be, but it might be helpful for 
reference.

"Walter" <walter digitalmars.com> writes:

"Burton Radons" <loth users.sourceforge.net> wrote in message
news:bdii03$1oii$1 digitaldaemon.com...
 If you're feeling up to it, a CGI library would be a valuable
 contribution to the community because of the many obscure elements about
 the interface.


Yes. The new Phobos uri routines are a good start.