cgi; stream output from exe to stdout

[hds1]

Hello all,

in a cgi script i'am trying to pipe the output from an exec prog via a stream to the browser. i.e. the output from "mapserver" et al. ; could be MByte large pictures.
In Perl i can use print and backquotes like:
<snip>
$ENV{"QUERY_STRING"}=blah blah
print `/path/to/mapserv`; # -> output goes to the browser
<snap>

I cannot wrap my mind around the exec statement in newlisp. According to the docs i could use:
(exec "/path/to/mapserv" query) opening a str-input.
But IMHO that store's the content in "query" which i would like to avoid.

How can i redirect the stream or "query" directly to "stdout" ?

Regards
hds1

[Lutz]

[Lutz]

http://www.newlisp.org is currently - UTC 23:02, 4:02pm PDT - down and the service provider will restore from an older backup. This backup will probably not contain the newlisp.org/example.cgi from the last post. I will put it back as soon as I have a chance.

PS: site is up again at 8:08pm PDT and example works.

[TedWalther]

Lutz, how does that work if it is a process that runs forever, perhaps "tail -f /var/www/log/mywebsite.com" ?

[hds1]

@Lutz,

thanks for the reply, but still the output is saved first in avariable and then send out to whom ever it shall go.

Can't it be done without interime saving ?

Consider Pictures, video streams or such. You don't want to save them, you want to pass the stream "through".

Thanks
hds1

[Lutz]

see here: http://www.newlisp.org/downloads/CodePa ... html#toc-2

sub chapter Scripts as pipes

[TedWalther]

[Lutz]

and this link may also be relevant:

http://www.newlisp.org/downloads/CodePa ... tml#toc-15

[TedWalther]

[Lutz]

[TedWalther]

[Lutz]

[TedWalther]

[Lutz]

Looks like a good idea, but wouldn't be for 10.6.0, also with a different name. The return value would be different - a list - and I don't want to break compatibility with older code. device is one of the oldest functions in newLISP.

[TedWalther]

[Lutz]

What I meant was the form (device) to inquire the current channel, which returns one integer. I would rather introduce it in development releases, as the the whole std I/O area touches many other areas, e.g. web and cgi.

[TedWalther]

Ok.