Hi,

I'm trying to write some CGI stuff in D. All I've done so far is a simple "Hello world" program. What I need to know is how to get the server variables. request_uri, remote_addr and all of those. Help is appreciated.

/Mårten

majbritt37@hotmail.com wrote:

> I'm trying to write some CGI stuff in D. All I've done so far is a simple "Hello
> world" program. What I need to know is how to get the server variables.
> request_uri, remote_addr and all of those. Help is appreciated.

The CGI specification is here:

http://hoohoo.ncsa.uiuc.edu/cgi/interface.html

CGI stores various variables in the environment.  You can retrieve them using getenv, such as with:

   private struct crt
   {
      static extern (C) char* getenv (char* varname);
   }

   char[] getenv (char[] varname)
   {
      return toString (crt.getenv (toStringz (varname)));
   }

If you're feeling up to it, a CGI library would be a valuable contribution to the community because of the many obscure elements about the interface.  The Python module for it is documented here (http://www.python.org/doc/current/lib/module-cgi.html); I've never used it, so I don't know how good it would be, but it might be helpful for reference.

"Burton Radons" <loth@users.sourceforge.net> wrote in message news:bdii03$1oii$1@digitaldaemon.com...
> If you're feeling up to it, a CGI library would be a valuable contribution to the community because of the many obscure elements about the interface.

Yes. The new Phobos uri routines are a good start.