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diff --git a/lib/inets/doc/src/http_server.xml b/lib/inets/doc/src/http_server.xml index e3b763b4f3..65e89db391 100644 --- a/lib/inets/doc/src/http_server.xml +++ b/lib/inets/doc/src/http_server.xml @@ -46,8 +46,7 @@ Layer), ESI (Erlang Scripting Interface), CGI (Common Gateway Interface), User Authentication(using Mnesia, dets or plain text database), Common Logfile Format (with or without disk_log(3) - support), URL Aliasing, Action Mappings, Directory Listings and SSI - (Server-Side Includes).</p> + support), URL Aliasing, Action Mappings, and Directory Listings</p> <p>The configuration of the server is provided as an erlang property list, and for backwards compatibility also a configuration @@ -478,170 +477,9 @@ http://your.server.org/eval?httpd_example:print(atom_to_list(apply(erlang,halt,[ </p> <p><em>[date]</em> access to <em>path</em> failed for <em>remotehost</em>, reason: <em>reason</em></p> - - <marker id="ssi"></marker> </section> - + <section> - <title>Server Side Includes</title> - <p>Server Side Includes enables the server to run code embedded - in HTML pages to generate the response to the client.</p> - <note> - <p>Having the server parse HTML pages is a double edged sword! - It can be costly for a heavily loaded server to perform - parsing of HTML pages while sending them. Furthermore, it can - be considered a security risk to have average users executing - commands in the name of the Erlang node user. Carefully - consider these items before activating server-side includes.</p> - </note> - - <section> - <marker id="ssi_setup"></marker> - <title>SERVER-SIDE INCLUDES (SSI) SETUP</title> - <p>The server must be told which filename extensions to be used - for the parsed files. These files, while very similar to HTML, - are not HTML and are thus not treated the same. Internally, the - server uses the magic MIME type <c>text/x-server-parsed-html</c> - to identify parsed documents. It will then perform a format - conversion to change these files into HTML for the - client. Update the <c>mime.types</c> file, as described in the - Mime Type Settings, to tell the server which extension to use - for parsed files, for example: - </p> - <pre> - text/x-server-parsed-html shtml shtm - </pre> - <p>This makes files ending with <c>.shtml</c> and <c>.shtm</c> - into parsed files. Alternatively, if the performance hit is not a - problem, <em>all</em> HTML pages can be marked as parsed: - </p> - <pre> - text/x-server-parsed-html html htm - </pre> - </section> - - <section> - <marker id="ssi_format"></marker> - <title>Server-Side Includes (SSI) Format</title> - <p>All server-side include directives to the server are formatted - as SGML comments within the HTML page. This is in case the - document should ever find itself in the client's hands - unparsed. Each directive has the following format: - </p> - <pre> - <!--#command tag1="value1" tag2="value2" --> - </pre> - <p>Each command takes different arguments, most only accept one - tag at a time. Here is a breakdown of the commands and their - associated tags: - </p> - <p>The config directive controls various aspects of the - file parsing. There are two valid tags: - </p> - <taglist> - <tag><c>errmsg</c></tag> - <item> - <p>controls the message sent back to the client if an - error occurred while parsing the document. All errors are - logged in the server's error log.</p> - </item> - <tag><c>sizefmt</c></tag> - <item> - <p>determines the format used to display the size of - a file. Valid choices are <c>bytes</c> or - <c>abbrev</c>. <c>bytes</c> for a formatted byte count - or <c>abbrev</c> for an abbreviated version displaying - the number of kilobytes.</p> - </item> - </taglist> - <p>The include directory - will insert the text of a document into the parsed - document. This command accepts two tags:</p> - <taglist> - <tag><c>virtual</c></tag> - <item> - <p>gives a virtual path to a document on the - server. Only normal files and other parsed documents can - be accessed in this way.</p> - </item> - <tag><c>file</c></tag> - <item> - <p>gives a pathname relative to the current - directory. <c>../</c> cannot be used in this pathname, nor - can absolute paths. As above, you can send other parsed - documents, but you cannot send CGI scripts.</p> - </item> - </taglist> - <p>The echo directive prints the value of one of the include - variables (defined below). The only valid tag to this - command is <c>var</c>, whose value is the name of the - variable you wish to echo.</p> - <p>The fsize directive prints the size of the specified - file. Valid tags are the same as with the <c>include</c> - command. The resulting format of this command is subject - to the <c>sizefmt</c> parameter to the <c>config</c> - command.</p> - <p>The lastmod directive prints the last modification date of - the specified file. Valid tags are the same as with the - <c>include</c> command.</p> - <p>The exec directive executes a given shell command or CGI - script. Valid tags are:</p> - <taglist> - <tag><c>cmd</c></tag> - <item> - <p>executes the given string using <c>/bin/sh</c>. All - of the variables defined below are defined, and can be - used in the command.</p> - </item> - <tag><c>cgi</c></tag> - <item> - <p>executes the given virtual path to a CGI script and - includes its output. The server does not perform error - checking on the script output.</p> - </item> - </taglist> - </section> - - <section> - <marker id="ssi_environment_variables"></marker> - <title>Server-Side Includes (SSI) Environment Variables</title> - <p>A number of variables are made available to parsed - documents. In addition to the CGI variable set, the following - variables are made available: - </p> - <taglist> - <tag><c>DOCUMENT_NAME</c></tag> - <item> - <p>The current filename.</p> - </item> - <tag><c>DOCUMENT_URI</c></tag> - <item> - <p>The virtual path to this document (such as - <c>/docs/tutorials/foo.shtml</c>).</p> - </item> - <tag><c>QUERY_STRING_UNESCAPED</c></tag> - <item> - <p>The unescaped version of any search query the client - sent, with all shell-special characters escaped with - <c>\</c>.</p> - </item> - <tag><c>DATE_LOCAL</c></tag> - <item> - <p>The current date, local time zone.</p> - </item> - <tag><c>DATE_GMT</c></tag> - <item> - <p>Same as DATE_LOCAL but in Greenwich mean time.</p> - </item> - <tag><c>LAST_MODIFIED</c></tag> - <item> - <p>The last modification date of the current document.</p> - </item> - </taglist> - </section> - </section> - - <section> <title>The Erlang Web Server API</title> <p>The process of handling a HTTP request involves several steps such as:</p> @@ -907,28 +745,6 @@ start() -> </taglist> </section> - <section> - <title>mod_include - SSI</title> - <p>This module makes it possible to expand "macros" embedded in - HTML pages before they are delivered to the client, that is - Server-Side Includes (SSI). - </p> - <p>Uses the following Erlang Webserver API interaction data: - </p> - <list type="bulleted"> - <item>real_name - from mod_alias</item> - <item>remote_user - from mod_auth</item> - </list> - <p>Exports the following Erlang Webserver API interaction data: - </p> - <taglist> - <tag><c>{mime_type, MimeType}</c></tag> - <item>The file suffix of the incoming URL mapped into a - <c>MimeType</c> as defined in the Mime Type Settings - section.</item> - </taglist> - </section> - <section> <title>mod_log - Logging Using Text Files.</title> <p>Standard logging using the "Common Logfile Format" and text |