Re: help needed...

Thanks tom and david. Sorry for the delayed reply, i was travelling.
I have fastcgi working now through printf and scanf. I know they are old
school, but it is ok untill i use sockets directly.
I will try to write Qt socket classes to wrap fastcgi sockets, but it's far
from simple. Qt reads environment variables for me in a simple way. This is
promising.
Since i have decided to program web apps from now on, i think i coverted to
fastcgi. Thanks to Tom.
Regards.
Dolaimi.
On Mar 13, 2011 1:39 PM, "Tom Bowden" <[email protected]> wrote:
> Of course -- I am operating under the assumption that the way I am
> using FastCGI is right; and that my understanding of its architecture
> is correct... neither of which may be true statements - but at least
> it works for me :)
>
>
> Tom
>
>
> On Mar 11, 2011, at 8:12 PM, Tom Bowden wrote:
>
>> Speaking as a recent convert (of about a year or so) I would
>> certainly hope that you don't lose hope with FastCgi.
>>
>> At first blush -- it isn't stdout that you're supposed to write to...
>>
>> Some tips/pointers that I have gleaned from this newsgroup and the
>> examples in the code -- along with how I use fastcgi:
>>
>> I have applications that must select on sockets from postgres,
>> inotifyd, and fastcgi -- so I can't use fcgi_* . So I use the
>> thread-safe version of FCGX functions.
>> I also have to play around a lot with headers -- to pass cookies,
>> custom status codes, etc. So I create a number of ostringstream
>> objects, write to them - and then dump them out as I need to with
>> FCGX_PutStr().
>>
>> What helped me the most -- with the paradigm of fastcgi -- is that
>> I'm not really receiving from stdin and stdout (anonymous pipes
>> associated with program). Instead I am talking with sockets that
>> are hidden by the API.
>> Here's some snippets.. FWIW. If more complete examples are needed
>> I can post them.,... but perhaps this is enough.
>>
>>
>>
>> In my startup of an object that communicates:
>> void IDOTicket::startup()
>> {
>> FCGX_Init();
>> FCGX_InitRequest(&_request, 0, 0);
>> fcntl(FCGI_LISTENSOCK_FILENO, F_SETFL, O_NONBLOCK);
>> _cin_streambuf = cin.rdbuf();
>> _cout_streambuf = cout.rdbuf();
>> _cerr_streambuf = cerr.rdbuf();
>>
>> }
>>
>> When I receive notification that there is a request to process:
>>
>> int IDOTicket::process_fastcgi_environment(Json::Value& pc)
>> {
>> int fcgx_method = FCGX_UNDEFINED;
>> if (FCGX_Accept_r(&_request) != 0) {
>> .. do stuff here ..
>> }
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> When I read from the socket:
>>
>> long IDOTicket::read_xml_request(std::string& content_string)
>> {
>> char * clenstr = FCGX_GetParam("CONTENT_LENGTH",
>> _request.envp);
>> unsigned long clen = STDIN_MAX;
>> if (clenstr) {
>> clen = strtol(clenstr, &clenstr, 10);
>> if (*clenstr) {
>> clen = STDIN_MAX;
>> }
>>
>> // *always* put a cap on the amount of data that will be
>> read
>> if (clen > STDIN_MAX) {
>> clen = STDIN_MAX;
>> }
>>
>> content_string.resize( clen );
>> std::string input_str;
>> FCGX_GetStr((char*)content_string.data(), clen,
>> _request.in);
>> _ticket_interface_object->input(xmlParseMemory
>> ( content_string.c_str(), content_string.size()));
>>
>> } else {
>> // *never* read stdin when CONTENT_LENGTH is missing or
>> unparsable
>> content_string.empty();
>> clen = 0;
>> }
>>
>> // Chew up any remaining stdin - this shouldn't be necessary
>> // but is because mod_fastcgi doesn't handle it correctly.
>> // ignore() doesn't set the eof bit in some versions of
>> glibc++
>> // so use gcount() instead of eof()...
>> do {
>> cin.ignore(1024);
>> } while (cin.gcount() == 1024);
>>
>> if ( content_string.empty() ) {
>> return 0L;
>> } else {
>> return content_string.size();
>> }
>> }
>>
>> WHEN I READ An environmental variable passed from apache, created
>> by the fastcgi manager, and then consumed in my app:
>>
>> char* const* envp = _request.envp;
>>
>> for ( envp = _request.envp; *envp; ++envp) {
>> Json::Value p_context = Json::Value(objectValue);
>> std::string name;
>> std::string value;
>> if ( IDOPattern( PCRE_POST_REQUEST_METHOD)->PartialMatch
>> ( (*envp),&name, &value ) ) {
>> fcgx_method = FCGX_POST;
>> } else if ( IDOPattern( PCRE_GET_REQUEST_METHOD)-
>> >PartialMatch( (*envp),&name, &value ) ) {
>> fcgx_method = FCGX_GET;
>> } else if ( IDOPattern( PCRE_QUERY_STRING)->PartialMatch
>> ( (*envp), &name, &value) ) {
>> std::string param_name;
>> std::string param_value;
>> std::string param_post;
>> while ( IDOPattern( PCRE_SERIALIZED_FORM)->PartialMatch
>> ( value.c_str(), &param_name, &param_value, &param_post) ) {
>> p_context[HAS_NAME_OF] = param_name;
>> p_context[HAS_TYPE_OF] = param_name;
>> p_context[HAS_VALUE_OF] = param_value;
>> pc.append(p_context);
>> value = param_post;
>> }
>> }
>> }
>>
>>
>>
>> WHEN I am writing to the socket:
>>
>> if ( data_stream.str().size() < 1 ) {
>> http_stream << "Content-Length: " << content_stream.str
>> ().size() << std::endl;
>> } else {
>> content_stream << data_stream.str() << std::endl;
>> http_stream << "Content-Length: " << content_stream.str
>> ().size() << std::endl;
>> }
>> header_stream << std::endl;
>>
>> if ( http_stream.str().size() > 0) {
>> FCGX_PutStr(http_stream.str().c_str(), http_stream.str
>> ().size(), _request.out);
>> }
>> if ( header_stream.str().size() > 0) {
>> FCGX_PutStr(header_stream.str().c_str(),
>> header_stream.str().size(), _request.out);
>> }
>> if ( content_stream.str().size() > 0) {
>> FCGX_PutStr(content_stream.str().c_str(),
>> content_stream.str().size(), _request.out);
>> }
>> }
>>
>>
>> When I am finished with the socket/call of a single request:
>>
>> FCGX_Finish_r(&_request);
>>
>>
>>
>> AS FOR LINKING:
>>
>> Snippets from my Makefile
>>
>> INCS += -I/usr/include/fastcgi
>>
>> LIBS +=-lxslt
>> LIBS +=-lfcgi++
>> LIBS += $(PCRE_LIB_OPS) -lpcrecpp $(CURL_LIB_OPS) $
>> (READLINE_LIB_OPS) \
>> -L/usr/lib -lpthread -lm -ldl -lxml2 -lz
>>
>>
>> On Mar 11, 2011, at 7:35 AM, Majed Al-Dolaimi wrote:
>>
>>> Hi guys,
>>> I am a bit disappointed in the FastCGI documentation, as many
>>> other people are. However I am not losing hope with it.
>>>
>>> 1 - I installed the apache mod_fcgid from SUSE website and it
>>> seems to be working..
>>> 2 - I configured, compiled the fcgi-(*-*).tar.gz and added the
>>> libs to the /usr/lib.
>>> 3 - Added the -Ifcgi++ (or -Ifcgi ) library to my Makefile... my
>>> compiler is not complaining
>>> 4 - Added the FCGI_Accept() loop to my main routing in my c++ app...
>>>
>>> RESULTS: When I run the whole thing ...
>>> 5 - my app runs (it shows on the process monitor as a sleeping
>>> process) and does not stop immediately which fine and dandy
>>> 6 - I only get a blank page in the browser. Even an error message
>>> from my WWW server does not show up.
>>> I tried flushing the std::cout as well as writing to stdout file
>>> descrptier then flush it... nothing shows up on the browser screen..
>>>
>>> What I could not understand is making sure the linker searches
>>> for the BSD socket library. Since the ldconfig did not complain, I
>>> assumed it found it, right?
>>>
>>> Your help will pay back to fastcgi... so please help me out..
>>>
>>> Majed Dolaimi
>>> C++/ web developer
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