Re: fcgi

On Dec 9, 2005, at 6:04 AM, Gerd Stolpmann wrote:

> Am Donnerstag, den 08.12.2005, 21:12 -0800 schrieb Mika Illouz:
>> Hi Gerd,
>>
>> I've been starting to use your ocaml modules, which appear at first
>> glance to be very well crafted pieces of software.  Thanks for your
>> contribution.
>>
>> I have one question regarding the non-raw fast-cgi module: Is it
>> possible using that interface (Netcgi_fcgi) to augment the list of
>> permitted_input_content_types with "text/xml"?  I would need that for
>> handling xml-rpc POST's.  If it is not possible, I suppose I could
>> just use Netcgi_fcgi_10 and dress it up as needed.
>
> Hi Mika,
>
> it seems it is not possible to pass a cgi_config when one invokes  
> fcgi.
> We just overlooked that. If you look into netcgi_fcgi.ml, there is one
> line
>
> let env = new Netcgi_env.custom_environment ()
>
> This constructor accepts also an optional argument cgi_config, and if
> missing, the default config is taken which does not permit text/xml.
>

This was indeed overlooked. I propose adding an optional argument to  
setup_env which allows to specify the cgi_config.

> The other question is how the POST data should be processed.  
> Currently,
> in netcgi.ml there is a hard-coded match of the content-type against
> application/x-www-form-urlencoded and multipart/form-data, and all  
> other
> types are rejected. I don't know very much about xml-rpc, but I guess
> the POST data consists of the serialized rpc call, and netcgi should
> simply handle it as opaque data (as it is already done for PUT data).
>
> These changes look all very easy, and before you call low-level layers
> of netcgi directly, I think it is better to change the higher-level
> parts.
>
> Gerd
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