5.4.3 cgiServer

This process handle queries from the cgi script.

Process conceptual model:

• Events in

  <cgiSrv-query>

  from cgiClient (see cgiClient): receive a socket query asking for an archive.

• Processing

  This process handle 2 kind of queries:

  • When no email address is provided, try to extract archive and:
    • if archive is available on cache returns 220 and its path,
    • if not, returns 120.
  • When a email address is provided:
    • returns 221 and reminds that a USER (see Who) is looking for the related archive and want to be notified when it becomes available using this email address.
• Events out

  extract()

  to extract (see extract): internally ask to start extraction.

  deliver()

  to delivering (see delivering): deliver mails related to an extracted archive.

• Input data
  • /etc/mediatex/mdtx.conf (see mdtx.conf)
  • /etc/mediatex/mdtx-COLL/servers.txt (see servers.txt)

Example:

$ telnet localhost 6560
Headers
	Collection	hello
        Server          fbc144f6da753a9a4288e2915df14edd
	Type		CGI
	DoCypher	FALSE
Body
#                date                             host …
D 2013-12-10,10:24:24 fbc144f6da753a9a4288e2915df14edd …

…                             hash                size extra
… 365acad0657b0113990fe669972a65de               15106 test@test.org
^]quit

# tail -f /var/log/mediatex.log
[info mdtxd.c:384] socketJob
...
[notice mdtxd.c:400] hello: DISK message from \
                   fbc144f6da753a9a4288e2915df14edd server (localhost)

Code:

src/server/cgiSrv.c