Re: [Haserl-users] haserl fails with sigpipe on content upload

[Nathan A. <na...@us...>]

Hi Olivier,

> Hi,
>
> we are using haserl to upload a tar file on an embedded system (router) which contains a firmware image.
>
> The shebang of the cgi looks like this:
> #!/usr/bin/haserl -u 20000 -U /var/tmp -H /usr/lib/mww/do_update_handler.sh
>
> The update handler processes the input and unpacks the tar file:
> ...
> tar -f "$1" -C / -xv 2>&1
> ...
>
> It's working until the user tries to upload a non-tar file. Tar fails with "tar: invalid magic" and haserl gets SIGPIPE on next write. As a workaround we are doing this now:
>    (
>    tar -C / -xv 2>&1
>    cat>  /dev/null
>    )<  "$1"
>
> Is it possible to let haserl handle the case that the upload is not fully processed by the handler? Or are there other suggestions?
>

What would you like haserl to do in this case?