Lynn wrote regarding the Mosquito distribution:
> I have been busy looking at some CGI options myself lately. :)
<soapbox>Personally, I think there's something fundamentally wrong with
managing a firewall/router through a web-based interface, but it seems that
I'm the only one who feels this way...</soapbox>
I've been working on and off on integrating lua into a web server to provide
an inline embedded scripting language, similar to PHP. For example:
<TITLE>Configuration page for <? readfrom("|/bin/hostname")
x=read("*a")
hostname=strsub(x,0,(strlen(x)-1))
x=nil
write (hostname)
?></TITLE>
...
<H1>Configuration page for <? write(hostname) ?></H1>
The above generates a web page that "knows" the local hostname... you get
the idea (I hope.) I got micro_httpd working, but it only supports GET
requests, so I switched to working with mini_httpd. GET requests work, but
I'm still working on the correct approach for POSTS...
Advantages I see to this approach are:
Let the web server handle the access control, logging, etc. (better
security)
web pages should be more portable across the LEAF distributions
mini_httpd can be built with SSL support, if desired
inline-scripting is cool
Disadvantages mainly involve size:
The statically-linked lua library adds 50-70K to the web server
code; lua-enabled mini_httpd is just under 100K in size. (UPX gets it to
less than half of that, though).
Does anyone out there see a need/use for this kind of thing? Or do you
think the standard CGI scripting is fine? (I do realize you can fit alot of
weblet pages in 100K)
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