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<title>mod_esi</title>
<file>mod_esi.sgml</file>
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<module>mod_esi</module>
<modulesummary>Erlang Server Interface</modulesummary>
<description>
<p>This module defines the Erlang Server Interface (ESI) API.
It is a more efficient way of writing Erlang scripts
for your <c>Inets</c> web server than writing them as common CGI scripts.</p>
<marker id="deliver"></marker>
</description>
<section>
<title>DATA TYPES</title>
<p>The following data types are used in the functions for mod_esi:</p>
<taglist>
<tag><c>env() = </c></tag>
<item> <p><c>{EnvKey()::atom(), Value::term()}</c></p>
</item>
<p>Currently supported key value pairs</p>
<taglist>
<tag><c>{server_software, string()}</c></tag>
<item><p>Indicates the inets version.</p></item>
<tag><c>{server_name, string()}</c></tag>
<item><p>The local hostname. </p></item>
<tag><c>{gateway_interface, string()}</c></tag>
<item><p>Legacy string used in CGI, just ignore.</p> </item>
<tag><c>{server_protocol, string()}</c></tag>
<item><p> HTTP version, currently "HTTP/1.1"</p></item>
<tag>{server_port, integer()}</tag>
<item><p>Servers port number.</p></item>
<tag><c>{request_method, "GET | "PUT" | "DELETE | "POST" | "PATCH"}</c></tag>
<tag><c>{remote_adress, inet:ip_address()} </c></tag>
<item><p>The clients ip address.</p></item>
<tag><c>{peer_cert, undefined | no_peercert | DER:binary()</c></tag>
<item>
<p>For TLS connections where client certificates are used this will
be an ASN.1 DER-encoded X509-certificate as an Erlang binary.
If client certificates are not used the value will be <c>no_peercert</c>,
and if TLS is not used (HTTP or connection is lost due to network failure)
the value will be <c>undefined</c>.
</p></item>
<tag><c>{script_name, string()}</c></tag>
<item><p>Request URI</p></item>
<tag><c>{http_LowerCaseHTTPHeaderName, string()}</c></tag>
<item><p>example: {http_content_type, "text/html"}</p></item>
</taglist>
</taglist>
<funcs>
<func>
<name>deliver(SessionID, Data) -> ok | {error, Reason}</name>
<fsummary>Sends <c>Data</c> back to client.</fsummary>
<type>
<v>SessionID = term()</v>
<v>Data = string() | io_list() | binary()</v>
<v>Reason = term()</v>
</type>
<desc>
<marker id="deliver"></marker>
<p>This function is <em>only</em> intended to be used from
functions called by the Erl Scheme interface to deliver
parts of the content to the user.</p>
<p>Sends data from an Erl Scheme script back to the client.</p>
<note>
<p>If any HTTP header fields are added by the
script, they must be in the first call to <c>deliver/2</c>,
and the data in the call must be a string. Calls after the headers
are complete can contain binary data to reduce copying
overhead. Do not assume anything about the data type of
<c>SessionID</c>. <c>SessionID</c> must be the value given
as input to the ESI callback function that you implemented.</p>
</note>
</desc>
</func>
</funcs>
</section>
<section>
<title>ESI Callback Functions</title>
</section>
<funcs>
<func>
<name>Module:Function(SessionID, Env, Input)-> _ </name>
<fsummary>Creates a dynamic web page and returns it chunk by chunk
to the server process by calling <c>mod_esi:deliver/2</c>.</fsummary>
<type>
<v>SessionID = term()</v>
<v>Env = env()</v>
<v>Input = string()</v>
</type>
<desc>
<p><c>Module</c> must be found in the code path and export
<c>Function</c> with an arity of three. An <c>erlScriptAlias</c> must
also be set up in the configuration file for the web server.</p>
<p>If the HTTP request is a 'post' request and a body is sent,
<c>content_length</c> is the length of the posted
data. If 'get' is used, <c>query_string</c> is the data after
<em>?</em> in the URL.</p>
<p><c>ParsedHeader</c> is the HTTP request as a key-value tuple
list. The keys in <c>ParsedHeader</c> are in lower case.</p>
<p><c>SessionID</c> is an identifier
the server uses when <c>deliver/2</c> is called. Do not
assume anything about the datatype.</p>
<p>Use this callback function to generate dynamic web
content dynamically. When a part of the page is generated, send the
data back to the client through <c>deliver/2</c>. Notice
that the first chunk of data sent to the client must at
least contain all HTTP header fields that the response
will generate. If the first chunk does not contain the
<em>end of HTTP header</em>, that is, <c>"\r\n\r\n",</c>
the server assumes that no HTTP header fields will be generated.</p>
</desc>
</func>
<func>
<name>Module:Function(Env, Input)-> Response </name>
<fsummary>Creates a dynamic web page and returns it as a list.
This function is deprecated and is only kept for backwards compatibility.</fsummary>
<type>
<v>Env = env()</v>
<v>Input = string()</v>
<v>Response = string()</v>
</type>
<desc>
<p>This callback format consumes much memory, as the
whole response must be generated before it is sent to the
user. This function is deprecated and is only kept for backwards
compatibility.
For new development, use <c>Module:Function/3</c>.</p>
</desc>
</func>
</funcs>
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