Re: FastCGI-developers Digest, Vol 15, Issue 10

Great!  I guess that's one of the differences between

  AliasMatch ^/(path/to/yourfiles/*.ext) /yourfastcgiserver

and

  AddHandler my-file-type .xyz
  Action my-file-type /myfastcgiapp

In my AliasMatched fastcgi server, I don't even get a PATH_TRANSLATED var.

tbandrowsky wrote:
> Hey, some answers!  I managed to get it to work and I'm super excited
> about it.  For the purposes of having a FastCGI process multiple
> different files, the following worked, for Apache (This was on an Ubuntu
> based machine). In the below, xspserve is the name of my C++ FastCGI.
>
>         FastCGIServer /var/www/xsp-bin/xspserve
>         AddType application/x-httpd-fastxsp xsp
>         Action application/x-httpd-fastxsp /xsp-bin/xspserve
>
>         <Directory "/var/www/xsp-bin">
>                 AllowOverride None
>                 Options +ExecCGI -MultiViews +SymLinksIfOwnerMatch
>         </Directory>
>
> To read the file that is my "custom script" file, I found that
> PATH_TRANSLATED seemed to be the one that did what I needed.
> SCRIPT_NAME game the name of the C++ chumpy itself, and that simply
> wasn't what I was looking for.
>
> Todd
>
> On Wed, 2009-10-28 at 12:00 -0400,
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>>    1. Re: FastCGI as a Filter? (Rob Lemley)
>>    2. Re: FastCGI as a Filter? (tbandrowsky)
>>    3. Is there any method (within fcgi) to return a different HTTP
>>       status code than '200 OK'? (Rick Thorne)
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>> Message: 1
>> Date: Tue, 27 Oct 2009 14:01:32 -0500
>> From: Rob Lemley <[email protected]>
>> Subject: Re: [FASTCGI] FastCGI as a Filter?
>> To: [email protected]
>> Message-ID: <[email protected]>
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>> Date: Sat, 24 Oct 2009 23:52:55 -0400
>>     
>>> From: tbandrowsky <[email protected]>
>>> Subject: [FASTCGI] FastCGI as a Filter?
>>>
>>> I'm trying to make heads or tales of whether or not Apache 2 supports
>>> FastCGI as a filter.  Basically, I want to have a bunch of files with a
>>> particular extension in a directory all get passed through to my FastCGI
>>> application rather than get spewed out directly.  I've read that one
>>> does not need filters to do this, although clearly, filters look like
>>> they would be a pretty elegant approach. Can I do this sort of a thing
>>> with Apache, or am I just banged and should use something like Sun's web
>>> server?
>>>   
>>>       
>> Apparently mod_fastcgi (the apache fastcgi module) does not support
>> FastCGI filter role:
>>
>> "mod_fastcgi does not implement the Authorizer or Filter roles described
>> in the FastCGI specification. However, you can approximate the Filter
>> role using Apache's Action  directive to route requests to a FastCGI
>> Responder. See the documentation for mod_actions for information on the
>> Action directive."
>> (http://www.fastcgi.com/om_archive/servers/apache/apache-fastcgi/mod_fastcgi.html)
>>
>> The mod_action solution (which I have no experience with) seems to catch
>> all files with a given mime-type or, in this case, extension:
>>     # Files of a particular file extension
>>     AddHandler my-file-type .xyz
>>     Action my-file-type /cgi-bin/program.cgi
>>
>> which, translated to FastCGI, I think would look something like (untested):
>>
>>     # Files of a particular file extension
>>     AddHandler my-file-type .xyz
>>     Action my-file-type /myfastcgiapp
>>     FastCgiServer /myfastcgiapp ....
>>
>> I believe the way to set this up with apache  AliasMatch directive,
>> which allows you to capture input requests based on a more general
>> regular expression pattern, to set the Apache2 "AliasMatch" directive to
>> pass only the files you want to filter to your FastCGI server:
>>
>>     #APACHE CONFIG:
>>
>>     # NameVirtualHost *:80
>>
>>     <VirtualHost *:80>
>>       ServerName yourserver.example.com
>>       ServerAlias yourserver
>>       AliasMatch ^/(path/to/yourfiles/*.ext) /yourfastcgiserver
>>     </VirtualHost>
>>
>>     FastCgiExternalServer /yourfastcgiserver  -socket
>>     /var/run/yourfastcgiserver/socket
>>
>>     #END OF APACHE CONFIG
>>
>> Next, you would implement the FastCGI server to read the files and
>> filter them as necessary.  This usage of FastCGI is fairly well known
>> and I don't have a good concise example in my own code.  To filter these
>> files, generally all you would do is open the filename found in the
>> FastCGI Environment (CGI) variable "SCRIPT_NAME."  You might need to
>> adjust the directory or something depending on how your server namespace
>> is set up.
>>
>>     while accept_fastcgi_request(request)                    
>>     #FCGX_Accept(), etc
>>         script_name = lookup(request.envp, "SCRIPT_NAME")
>>         filter(script_name)                                   # writes
>>     using FCGX_PutStr(), may need to Put the HTTP response header too.
>>     endwhile
>>
>>
>> All of the information about the request will come through the FastCGI
>> request.  You'll look at various fields in the FastCGI environment to
>> determine the file to open and filter.  Generally your program might
>> look at REQUEST_URI, QUERY_STRING and SCRIPT_NAME.  You may also want to
>> check for POST request data in some case (depends on having
>> "CONTENT_TYPE=multipart/form-data; boundary.....).  Or you can just
>> ignore any query string and post data and just filter the SCRIPT_NAME.
>>
>> NOTE: usually (always?) REQUEST_URI == SCRIPT_NAME + "?" + QUERY_STRING
>>
>> Rob
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>> Message: 2
>> Date: Tue, 27 Oct 2009 22:30:47 -0400
>> From: tbandrowsky <[email protected]>
>> Subject: Re: [FASTCGI] FastCGI as a Filter?
>> To: Garrett Wollman <[email protected]>
>> Cc: [email protected]
>> Message-ID: <1256697047.3271.5.camel@tbandrow-desktop>
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>> Thanks!  Turns out that is exactly what I was trying to do and it works
>> wonderfully.
>>
>> On Mon, 2009-10-26 at 11:53 -0400, Garrett Wollman wrote:
>>     
>>> <<On Sat, 24 Oct 2009 23:52:55 -0400, tbandrowsky <[email protected]> said:
>>>
>>>       
>>>> I'm trying to make heads or tales of whether or not Apache 2 supports
>>>> FastCGI as a filter.  Basically, I want to have a bunch of files with a
>>>> particular extension in a directory all get passed through to my FastCGI
>>>> application rather than get spewed out directly.
>>>>         
>>> That's pretty easy to accomplish, although I don't know about using
>>> the filter mechanism for that.  Here's what we do for PHP:
>>>
>>> ScriptAlias /.php5-cgi /usr/bin/php5-cgi
>>> Action php5-script /.php5-cgi
>>> Action application/x-httpd-fastphp5 /.php5-cgi
>>>
>>> AddType application/x-httpd-fastphp5 php5
>>>
>>> -GAWollman
>>>
>>>       
>>
>>
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>>
>> Message: 3
>> Date: Wed, 28 Oct 2009 10:51:09 -0400
>> From: Rick Thorne <Rick-fmpmzfu+nTwn/[email protected]>
>> Subject: [FASTCGI] Is there any method (within fcgi) to return a
>> 	different HTTP status code than '200 OK'?
>> To: fastcgi-developers-xGejAJT2w6xVgU18Zptdi0EOCMrvLtNR@public.gmane.org
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>> Is there any method (within fcgi) to return a HTTP status code other 
>> than '200 OK'?
>>
>> I'm serving up images stored in a database; using fcgi and Apache.
>>
>> Using www.httpviewer.net to track the response 'back' from our 
>> server, a request for an existing image (through our fcgi 
>> application) returns the following HTTP information:
>>    HTTP/1.1 200 OK(CR)(LF)
>>    Date: Tue, 27 Oct 2009 16:57:57 GMT(CR)(LF)
>>    Server: Apache/2.2.11 (Win32) PHP/5.3.0 mod_fastcgi/2.4.6(CR)(LF)
>>    Content-Length: 3302(CR)(LF)          <--- written by our fcgi application
>>    Content-Type: image/png(CR)(LF)               <--- written by our 
>> fcgi application
>>    (CR)(LF)                                      <--- written by our 
>> fcgi application
>>    ...3302 bytes of .png data                    <--- written by our 
>> fcgi application
>>
>> The web page receives and displays the image correctly.
>>
>> The web page can also generate requests for images that do not exist, 
>> and these requests also come through our fcgi application (we don't 
>> know that they do not exist until we attempt to find them in the database).
>>
>> We'd like to return the '404 Not Found' header for these non-existent 
>> images, as in:
>>    HTTP/1.1 404 Not Found(CR)(LF)
>>    Date: Tue, 27 Oct 2009 17:04:47 GMT(CR)(LF)
>>    Server: Apache/2.2.11 (Win32) PHP/5.3.0 mod_fastcgi/2.4.6(CR)(LF)
>>    (CR)(LF)
>>
>> However, within our fcgi application I don't appear to have control 
>> over the first three HTTP response lines (the lines that starts with 
>> 'HTTP/1.1', 'Date:', and 'Server:').  I believe Apache generates 
>> these lines when it successfully parses the fcgi request and finds 
>> the required fcgi startup file.  Then it calls the fcgi application 
>> and pushes the data through the pipes to and from our fcgi application.
>>
>> In other words, apparently all fcgi applications have to work with 
>> only the 'HTTP/1.1 200 OK(CR)(LF)' response and cannot change this 
>> response code to another value.
>>
>> The FCGX_SetExitStatus() command does 'not' control this HTTP 
>> response code (?I tried w/o success on the output stream, perhaps I 
>> should have tried the error stream?).
>>
>> The current workaround I have for this particular issue is to keep 
>> the '200 OK' response and return an empty .png image.  This solution 
>> 'works' (in this particular example), but I'd also like to be able to 
>> respond with other HTTP codes for some other error conditions.
>>
>> Note: I'm writing this fcgi application in 'C', so I can pretty much 
>> call any (public) operating system/Apache/fcgi dynamic link library 
>> entry point.
>>
>> Thoughts and/or suggestions welcome...
>>
>> Rick Thorne
>> Landbase Systems Corporation
>> One World / One Map
>> (412)563-9120 (Office)
>> (412)563-9122 (Desk)
>>
>>
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