/**************************************************************************\ * * * Project: Gild * * wrapper.c * * * * Purpose: Given a open socket connected to a client, handle * * the conversation with the client by detecting the protocol * * in use and invoking the appropriate handler * * * * Author : Simon Brooke * * Copyright: (c) Simon Brooke 1997 * * Version : 0.1 * * Created : 7th October 1997 * * * \**************************************************************************/ #include "gild.h" char errorBuff[ 1024]; void die( void) /* inherited from cgi-lib; a way of getting rid of errant programs */ { sprintf( errorBuff, "potentially serious: handler over-ran alloted time"); error( LOG_ERR); } void wrapper( int conversation, char * client_id) /* conversation is the handle on an open socket communicating with a client. What I want to do is quite simple, and there must be a straightforward way of doing it: attach the conversation to both the standard input and the standard output of a process, and then exec the handler within that process... I can't (at present) find an easy way of doing that, however */ { char firstln[ 1024]; handler * command = null; recv( conversation, firstln, 80, MSG_PEEK); /* get the first thing the client says, but leave it on the input stream for the handler. */ if ( dup2( conversation, STDIN_FILENO) == -1) { sprintf( errorBuff, "failed to duplicate conversation [%d] onto stdin: %s", conversation, strerror( errno)); error( LOG_ERR); } if ( dup2( conversation, STDOUT_FILENO) == -1) { sprintf( errorBuff, "failed to duplicate conversation [%d] onto stdout: %s", conversation, strerror( errno)); error( LOG_ERR); } command = get_handler( firstln); /* and find the appropriate handler */ if ( command == null) /* didn't find one */ { sprintf( errorBuff, "no handler registered for %s", firstln); error( LOG_ERR); } else /* did find one */ { sprintf( errorBuff, "using handler '%s' to handle %s request from %s", command->command, command->protocol, client_id); error( LOG_NOTICE); /* log the request */ if ( command->timeout != 0) /* prevent runaway processes; if a timeout has been specified for this handler, enforce it */ { signal( SIGALRM,(void (*)())die); alarm( command->timeout); } setenv( "REMOTE_HOST", client_id, 1); /* set up the handler environment */ system( command->command); } exit( 0); }