Re: Can I serve CLI Applications using Apache

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On Thu, Jun 23, 2022 at 11:15:13AM +0600, Ahmad Ismail wrote:
> I have already bumped into CGI (after asking the question here).
> 
> However, I have some issues with CGI. For example, I have to add HEADERS
> maintaining CRLF etc in the output. However, I want the CLI app to be
> totally independent. I mean, I want to output regular text or json
> without any header. So, what I really want is:
> 

Your trolling the internet?


> CLI_APP | ADD_UI | ADD_CGI_HEADER
> 
> Where CLI_APP gives me pure json. ADD_UI adds HTML, CSS, JS on the json
> output. And ADD_CGI_HEADER adds the extra stuff that is needed to make the
> final response sendable via the server.
> 
> Please note that when the user will send a request, it will have to go
> through the total pipeline. Also please note that, I can always call ADD_UI
> at the end of CLI_APP and call ADD_CGI_HEADER at the end of ADD_UI. But
> that way, I am not decoupling. And the later binaries will be dependent on
> the previous ones. This is not something I want. I want to *pipe the
> outputs to get the final response*.
> 
> How can I do that? Do I need to extend the apache server in any way (like
> creating any module or something like that).
> 
> *Thanks and Best Regards,Ahmad Ismail*
> 
> 
> On Wed, Jun 22, 2022 at 8:52 PM Eric Covener <covener@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> 
> > you can use CGI to prototype it, and FastCGI later for performance (if
> > it matters)
> >
> > On Wed, Jun 22, 2022 at 10:28 AM Ahmad Ismail <ismail783@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > >
> > > I want to create a CLI app (in this case named CLI_APP), that will
> > > output json and can be accessed via web.
> > >
> > > In Linux terms, it will look like:
> > >
> > > Request | Web_Server | CLI_APP | ADD_UI | Web_Server > Response
> > >
> > > Now, I will run the app like `CLI_APP --output json`. Here, I am
> > > saying that the CLI_APP will output json (for REST API).
> > >
> > > Here, `ADD_UI --output web` will add HTML, CSS, JS etc. to the JSON
> > output.
> > >
> > > Can apache help me send the requests to CLI_APP via STDIN and serve
> > > the final output of `ADD_UI --output web`?
> > >
> > > Thanks and Best Regards,
> > > Ahmad Ismail
> > >
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