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NAME

Catalyst::Controller::CGIBin - Serve CGIs from root/cgi-bin

VERSION

Version 0.011

SYNOPSIS

In your controller:

package MyApp::Controller::Foo;

use parent qw/Catalyst::Controller::CGIBin/;

# example of a forward to /cgi-bin/hlagh/mtfnpy.cgi
sub serve_cgi : Local Args(0) {
    my ($self, $c) = @_;
    $c->forward($self->cgi_action('hlagh/mtfnpy.cgi'));
}

In your .conf:

<Controller::Foo>
    cgi_root_path cgi-bin
    cgi_dir       cgi-bin
    <CGI>
        username_field username # used for REMOTE_USER env var
        pass_env PERL5LIB
        pass_env PATH
        pass_env /^MYAPP_/
    </CGI>
</Controller::Foo>

DESCRIPTION

Dispatches to CGI files in root/cgi-bin for /cgi-bin/ paths.

Unlike ModPerl::Registry this module does _NOT_ stat and recompile the CGI for every invocation. This may be supported in the future if there's interest.

CGI paths are converted into action names using "cgi_action".

Inherits from Catalyst::Controller::WrapCGI, see the documentation for that module for other configuration information.

CONFIG PARAMS

cgi_root_path

The global URI path prefix for CGIs, defaults to cgi-bin.

cgi_dir

Path from which to read CGI files. Can be relative to $MYAPP_HOME/root or absolute. Defaults to $MYAPP_HOME/root/cgi-bin.

METHODS

cgi_action

<$self-cgi_action($cgi)>>

Takes a path to a CGI from root/cgi-bin such as foo/bar.cgi and returns the action name it is registered as. See "DESCRIPTION" for a discussion on how CGI actions are named.

A path such as root/cgi-bin/hlagh/bar.cgi will get the private path foo/CGI_hlagh__bar_cgi, for controller Foo, with the /s converted to __ and prepended with CGI_, as well as all non-word characters converted to _s. This is because Catalyst action names can't have non-word characters in them.

This means that foo/bar.cgi and foo__bar.cgi for example will both map to the action CGI_foo__bar_cgi so DON'T DO THAT.

cgi_path

<$self-cgi_path($cgi)>>

Takes a path to a CGI from root/cgi-bin such as foo/bar.cgi and returns the public path it should be registered under.

The default is to prefix with $cgi_root_path/, using the cgi_root_path config setting, above.

is_perl_cgi

<$self-is_perl_cgi($path)>>

Tries to figure out whether the CGI is Perl or not.

If it's Perl, it will be inlined into a sub instead of being forked off, see "wrap_perl_cgi".

wrap_perl_cgi

<$self-wrap_perl_cgi($path, $action_name)>>

Takes the path to a Perl CGI and returns a coderef suitable for passing to cgi_to_response (from Catalyst::Controller::WrapCGI.)

$action_name is the generated name for the action representing the CGI file from cgi_action.

This is similar to how ModPerl::Registry works, but will only work for well-written CGIs. Otherwise, you may have to override this method to do something more involved (see ModPerl::PerlRun.)

Scripts with __DATA__ sections now work too, as well as scripts that call exit().

wrap_nonperl_cgi

<$self-wrap_nonperl_cgi($path, $action_name)>>

Takes the path to a non-Perl CGI and returns a coderef for executing it.

$action_name is the generated name for the action representing the CGI file.

By default returns:

sub { system $path }

SEE ALSO

Catalyst::Controller::WrapCGI, CatalystX::GlobalContext, Catalyst::Controller, CGI, Catalyst

AUTHORS

Rafael Kitover, <rkitover at cpan.org>

Hans Dieter Pearcey, <hdp at cpan.org>

BUGS

Please report any bugs or feature requests to bug-catalyst-controller-wrapcgi at rt.cpan.org, or through the web interface at http://rt.cpan.org/NoAuth/ReportBug.html?Queue=Catalyst-Controller-WrapCGI. I will be notified, and then you'll automatically be notified of progress on your bug as I make changes.

SUPPORT

More information at:

COPYRIGHT & LICENSE

Copyright (c) 2008 Rafael Kitover

This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the same terms as Perl itself.