> > I am trying to extend sh-httpd to handle POST and PUT. PUT is not an issue > > since all the parameters are present in the request. > > > > The problem I have with POST is that the paramters come as a line of text > > but no line terminator (at least from Netscape) and the connection is not > > closed so the read command a shell script does not terminate. > > > > Is there a way to read everything from stdin without having to have a > > termination character? Something like getc() would be great. > > You'll have to check the RFC's for the exact server requirments when > handling POST, but IIRC, you have to look at the content-length field, and > read that many bytes from the input stream. This is a good use for dd.
Oh...any chance you want to try implementing connection-keepalive while you're at it? This is something that would actually help a lot...M$ systems don't honor the connection-close header, and wait 'til the TCP connection resets before realizing the connection is finished. Charles Steinkuehler http://lrp.steinkuehler.net http://c0wz.steinkuehler.net (lrp.c0wz.com mirror) _______________________________________________ Leaf-devel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/leaf-devel
