cpp-netlib-devel

[cpp-netlib-devel] cgi-bin permissions

[K. G. <kim...@gm...>]

Hi all,

Someone (Divye?) suggested that the python HTTP server requires
execute permissions in the cgi-bin directory, and I can see how that
makes sense.

The http_test_server.hpp code contained a little snippet that did
chmod on cgi-bin/requestinfo.py, but since we have a few more cgi-bin
scripts now, I've tried to generalize that to run the same chmod on
all files inside cgi-bin.

However, since I don't have a Linux environment, I can't really test
it (nor build, actually)... So, does anyone feel up for testing that
it builds and sets the execute bit on all files in cgi-bin/?

Thanks,
- Kim

Re: [cpp-netlib-devel] cgi-bin permissions

[Dean M. B. <mik...@gm...>]

Hi Kim,

On Tue, Oct 14, 2008 at 6:39 PM, Kim Gräsman <kim...@gm...> wrote:
>
> However, since I don't have a Linux environment, I can't really test
> it (nor build, actually)... So, does anyone feel up for testing that
> it builds and sets the execute bit on all files in cgi-bin/?
>

Is this available in the http_integration branch?

Maybe you'd like to try out using Virtualbox to install a Linux distro
(of your choice, I prefer Ubuntu for development) on a few GB's worth
of disk space? That's what I do at least to be able to try things out
in Linux. ;-)

-- 
Dean Michael C. Berris
Software Engineer, Friendster, Inc.

Re: [cpp-netlib-devel] cgi-bin permissions

[K. G. <kim...@gm...>]

Hi Dean,

On Tue, Oct 14, 2008 at 14:31, Dean Michael Berris
<mik...@gm...> wrote:
>>
>> However, since I don't have a Linux environment, I can't really test
>> it (nor build, actually)... So, does anyone feel up for testing that
>> it builds and sets the execute bit on all files in cgi-bin/?
>>
>
> Is this available in the http_integration branch?

I'm not confident enough of my blind changes to commit them, but
here's a patch with my mods.

> Maybe you'd like to try out using Virtualbox to install a Linux distro
> (of your choice, I prefer Ubuntu for development) on a few GB's worth
> of disk space? That's what I do at least to be able to try things out
> in Linux. ;-)

I'll see if I can free a couple of gigs and experiment. Might be a
nice learning experience as well :)

Cheers,
- Kim

Re: [cpp-netlib-devel] cgi-bin permissions

[Dean M. B. <mik...@gm...>]

On Tue, Oct 14, 2008 at 8:56 PM, Kim Gräsman <kim...@gm...> wrote:
>
> On Tue, Oct 14, 2008 at 14:31, Dean Michael Berris
> <mik...@gm...> wrote:
>>>
>>> However, since I don't have a Linux environment, I can't really test
>>> it (nor build, actually)... So, does anyone feel up for testing that
>>> it builds and sets the execute bit on all files in cgi-bin/?
>>>
>>
>> Is this available in the http_integration branch?
>
> I'm not confident enough of my blind changes to commit them, but
> here's a patch with my mods.
>

Okay. After a visual inspection, I'd rather we not do it this way. If
you would like to use Boost.Filesystem, that would be nice and more
platform-independent as far as dealing with directories and file
names.

For the meantime just chmod'ing the files by name should be alright.

>> Maybe you'd like to try out using Virtualbox to install a Linux distro
>> (of your choice, I prefer Ubuntu for development) on a few GB's worth
>> of disk space? That's what I do at least to be able to try things out
>> in Linux. ;-)
>
> I'll see if I can free a couple of gigs and experiment. Might be a
> nice learning experience as well :)
>

I think it will. :D

-- 
Dean Michael C. Berris
Software Engineer, Friendster, Inc.

Re: [cpp-netlib-devel] cgi-bin permissions

[K. G. <kim...@gm...>]

Hi Dean,

On Tue, Oct 14, 2008 at 15:05, Dean Michael Berris
<mik...@gm...> wrote:
>
> Okay. After a visual inspection, I'd rather we not do it this way. If
> you would like to use Boost.Filesystem, that would be nice and more
> platform-independent as far as dealing with directories and file
> names.

I just committed a significantly cleaned up version of
http_test_server.hpp, that uses Boost.Filesystem as you suggested.

Also, Python 2.6 has just been released, and our excluded test case
works fine with it, so I re-included it.

>>> Maybe you'd like to try out using Virtualbox to install a Linux distro
>>> (of your choice, I prefer Ubuntu for development) on a few GB's worth
>>> of disk space? That's what I do at least to be able to try things out
>>> in Linux. ;-)

I got Ubuntu up and running in a Virtualbox, and have tested the
changes there. Everything seems to work!

- Kim

Re: [cpp-netlib-devel] cgi-bin permissions

[Glyn M. <gly...@gm...>]

Hi Kim,

2008/10/17 Kim Gräsman <kim...@gm...>

> I just committed a significantly cleaned up version of
> http_test_server.hpp, that uses Boost.Filesystem as you suggested.
>
> Also, Python 2.6 has just been released, and our excluded test case
> works fine with it, so I re-included it.
>
> >>> Maybe you'd like to try out using Virtualbox to install a Linux distro
> >>> (of your choice, I prefer Ubuntu for development) on a few GB's worth
> >>> of disk space? That's what I do at least to be able to try things out
> >>> in Linux. ;-)
>
> I got Ubuntu up and running in a Virtualbox, and have tested the
> changes there. Everything seems to work!
>

Great.  It works on my non-virtual ubuntu installation too ;)

Dean: is this intended to be part of the next release?  Do you have a time
frame for this?
G

Re: [cpp-netlib-devel] cgi-bin permissions

[Dean M. B. <mik...@gm...>]

Hi Glyn!

On Sat, Oct 18, 2008 at 2:19 AM, Glyn Matthews <gly...@gm...> wrote:
> Hi Kim,
>
> 2008/10/17 Kim Gräsman <kim...@gm...>
>>
>> I just committed a significantly cleaned up version of
>> http_test_server.hpp, that uses Boost.Filesystem as you suggested.
>>
>> Also, Python 2.6 has just been released, and our excluded test case
>> works fine with it, so I re-included it.
>>
>> >>> Maybe you'd like to try out using Virtualbox to install a Linux distro
>> >>> (of your choice, I prefer Ubuntu for development) on a few GB's worth
>> >>> of disk space? That's what I do at least to be able to try things out
>> >>> in Linux. ;-)
>>
>> I got Ubuntu up and running in a Virtualbox, and have tested the
>> changes there. Everything seems to work!
>
> Great.  It works on my non-virtual ubuntu installation too ;)
>
> Dean: is this intended to be part of the next release?  Do you have a time
> frame for this?

Yes, it should be part of the next release. Unfortunately, the day job
is taking a lot more of my time and this has hit the back-burner for
me again. :(

Glyn, can you please do the merge and if you can as well update the
documentation regarding the new functions and files (client_fwd.hpp
for http)? This would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks for the great work guys, it's getting to a point where we can
really start flaunting this software soon. :) A few more test and a
few more features and we should be on-track to packaging a new release
with (gasp) HTTP 1.1 client support. :D

(I'll bug some people here so that I can release the HTTP Server as
open source as well. I hope that turns out better for a lot of people
and brings us closer to 1.0) :)

-- 
Dean Michael C. Berris
Software Engineer, Friendster, Inc.

Re: [cpp-netlib-devel] cgi-bin permissions

[Glyn M. <gly...@gm...>]

Hi Dean,  thanks for the quick response.

2008/10/17 Dean Michael Berris <mik...@gm...>

> Hi Glyn!
>
> > Dean: is this intended to be part of the next release?  Do you have a
> time
> > frame for this?
>
> Yes, it should be part of the next release. Unfortunately, the day job
> is taking a lot more of my time and this has hit the back-burner for
> me again. :(
>
> Glyn, can you please do the merge and if you can as well update the
> documentation regarding the new functions and files (client_fwd.hpp
> for http)? This would be greatly appreciated.
>

Yeah, I'll do this over the weekend.


>
> Thanks for the great work guys, it's getting to a point where we can
> really start flaunting this software soon. :) A few more test and a
> few more features and we should be on-track to packaging a new release
> with (gasp) HTTP 1.1 client support. :D
>
> (I'll bug some people here so that I can release the HTTP Server as
> open source as well. I hope that turns out better for a lot of people
> and brings us closer to 1.0) :)


Do you have more information on this?  It sounds interesting :)
G