Item1471: HTTPEngineContrib - Initial release

Task related to HTTPEngineContrib intial release.

-- GilmarSantosJr - 19 Apr 2009

Currently the code is broken. Use it from HTTPEngineContrib:d4d2ce345dc3 with the following patch:

diff --git a/HTTPEngineContrib/lib/Foswiki/Engine/HTTP/Protocol.pm b/HTTPEngineContrib/lib/Foswiki/Engine/HTTP/Protocol.pm
index a83a205..8fb0759 100644
--- a/HTTPEngineContrib/lib/Foswiki/Engine/HTTP/Protocol.pm
+++ b/HTTPEngineContrib/lib/Foswiki/Engine/HTTP/Protocol.pm
 -72,6 +72,8 @@ sub options {
         $prop->{$_} ||= undef;
         $ref->{$_} = \$prop->{$_};
     }
+
+    $prop->{log_file} = '';
 }

 sub default_values {
diff --git a/HTTPEngineContrib/lib/Foswiki/Engine/HTTP/Static.pm b/HTTPEngineContrib/lib/Foswiki/Engine/HTTP/Static.pm
index 590ee80..6d0ff05 100644
--- a/HTTPEngineContrib/lib/Foswiki/Engine/HTTP/Static.pm
+++ b/HTTPEngineContrib/lib/Foswiki/Engine/HTTP/Static.pm
 -14,6 +14,7 @@ sub new {
     my $class = shift;
     my $this = bless {@_}, ref($class) || $class;
     $this->{method} = uc( $this->{method} );
+    return $this;
 }

 sub send_response {
 -88,7 +89,7 @@ sub _write {
           . $headers->as_string($CRLF)
           . $CRLF;
     }
-    if ( $code == 200 && $this->{proto} eq 'GET' ) {
+    if ( $code == 200 && $this->{method} eq 'GET' ) {
         binmode $fh;
         while ( sysread( $fh, my ($buffer), 4096 ) ) {
             last

• It only works for 127.0.0.1:8080 (or any other IP:port you put in Foswiki::Engine::HTTP::run)
  • Adjust {DefaultUrlHost} accordingly
  • Foswiki must be already configured ( you can use tools/lighttpd.pl to run configure)
• Some more hard coded values are set in Foswiki::Engine::HTTP::Protocol
• There is no CGI support (configure doesn't work, neither any legacy extension that adds files to foswiki bin directory)

As soon as I can I'll continue the development.

-- GilmarSantosJr - 30 Aug 2009

Pending Tasks

• Make foswiki_http.pl to be runnable without LocalSite.cfg
• Refactor Foswiki::Engine::HTTP::Server::readHeader() to Foswiki::Engine::Util::readHeader(), so it can be shared by http protocol handling and cgi processing
• Refactor Foswiki::Engine::HTTP::Server::readBody() to Foswiki::Engine::HTTP::Util::readBody() (same reason as above)
• Add support for CGI scripts (then configure will be usable)
• Add restart feature to apply LocalSite.cfg updates
• Add logging
• Write documentation

-- GilmarSantosJr - 30 Nov 2009