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CgiResource
This resource class runs CGI scripts, conforming to the
CGI/1.1
specification. You can use it as an extension template, to get automatic
indexing of your CGI scripts, based on their extension.
It also has a special interpreter attribute that
makes running scripts on Windows easy to configure, and somwhow more efficient
then you could expect.
Inherits
The CgiResource class
inherits from the following classes:
Attributes description
The CgiResource defines the following attributes:
command
-
semantics
-
The command to launch in order to run the CGI script. This should provide
the full pat hto the executable script. Each entry of the (String) array
gives is passed as an extra argument to the script, the first one being (by
convention) the full script's path.
-
type
-
This attribute is a editable
StringArrayAttribute.
-
default value
-
This attribute defaults to the full file name of the resource.
interpreter
-
semantics
-
Some operating systems don't support the nice UNIX feature
!#
that allows
UNIX to launch the appropriate interpreter for the
appropriate script. This attribute allows the CgiResource to be configured
to use a certain interpreter to interpret the script pointed to by the
command attribute.
By using this attribute in the predefined extensions, you can state that
on Windows boxes, all .pl
files are to be exported by the
CgiResource, with default interpreter /Perl/bin/perl.exe
. This
will allow you to automatically index cgi scripts.
-
type
-
This attribute is a editable
StringAttribute.
-
default value
-
This attribute has no default value.
noheader
-
semantics
-
Will the script emits its one headers, or should Jigsaw emit them.
Classical CGI scripts will usually not emit any headers, so it is up to their
hosting server to emit them. However, in some situation (server push, for
example), the script might prefer to emit its own set of headers.
When this flag is set to true it is up to the script to emit the headers,
otherwise, the server will do it.
-
type
-
This attribute is a editable
BooleanAttribute.
-
default value
-
This attribute defaults to false.
generates-form
-
semantics
-
Should the script be used to generate the form to be filled-in ? This resource
allows you to put your form in a file (since it inherits from the
FileResource), instead
of having to launch the script to generate it. For compatibilty, this flags
is turned to false by default, although, the second alternative (having
the form in a separate file) will probably be much (much) more efficient.
-
type
-
This attribute is a editable
BooleanAttribute.
-
default value
-
This attribute defaults to false.
cgi-debug
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semantics
-
Turns debug on for that script. This nifty feature allow you to debug your
script, by emitting a document containing the script output, instead of letting
the script generates the document. The returned document will be of content
type text/plain.
-
type
-
This attribute is a editable
BooleanAttribute.
-
default value
-
This attribute defaults to false.
Jigsaw Team
$Id: w3c.jigsaw.forms.CgiResource.html,v 1.1 1996/04/29 23:36:22 abaird Exp
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