On Thu, Jun 23, 2022 at 11:15:13AM +0600, Ahmad Ismail wrote: > I have already bumped into CGI (after asking the question here). > > However, I have some issues with CGI. For example, I have to add HEADERS > maintaining CRLF etc in the output. However, I want the CLI app to be > totally independent. I mean, I want to output regular text or json > without any header. So, what I really want is: >
Your trolling the internet? > CLI_APP | ADD_UI | ADD_CGI_HEADER > > Where CLI_APP gives me pure json. ADD_UI adds HTML, CSS, JS on the json > output. And ADD_CGI_HEADER adds the extra stuff that is needed to make the > final response sendable via the server. > > Please note that when the user will send a request, it will have to go > through the total pipeline. Also please note that, I can always call ADD_UI > at the end of CLI_APP and call ADD_CGI_HEADER at the end of ADD_UI. But > that way, I am not decoupling. And the later binaries will be dependent on > the previous ones. This is not something I want. I want to *pipe the > outputs to get the final response*. > > How can I do that? Do I need to extend the apache server in any way (like > creating any module or something like that). > > *Thanks and Best Regards,Ahmad Ismail* > > > On Wed, Jun 22, 2022 at 8:52 PM Eric Covener <cove...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > you can use CGI to prototype it, and FastCGI later for performance (if > > it matters) > > > > On Wed, Jun 22, 2022 at 10:28 AM Ahmad Ismail <ismail...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > > > > I want to create a CLI app (in this case named CLI_APP), that will > > > output json and can be accessed via web. > > > > > > In Linux terms, it will look like: > > > > > > Request | Web_Server | CLI_APP | ADD_UI | Web_Server > Response > > > > > > Now, I will run the app like `CLI_APP --output json`. Here, I am > > > saying that the CLI_APP will output json (for REST API). > > > > > > Here, `ADD_UI --output web` will add HTML, CSS, JS etc. to the JSON > > output. > > > > > > Can apache help me send the requests to CLI_APP via STDIN and serve > > > the final output of `ADD_UI --output web`? > > > > > > Thanks and Best Regards, > > > Ahmad Ismail > > > > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > > > To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscr...@httpd.apache.org > > > For additional commands, e-mail: users-h...@httpd.apache.org > > > > > > > > > -- > > Eric Covener > > cove...@gmail.com > > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > > To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscr...@httpd.apache.org > > For additional commands, e-mail: users-h...@httpd.apache.org > > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscr...@httpd.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: users-h...@httpd.apache.org
