Index of class methods

#argument name returns the value of the argument named name.

#argument_exists returns false if the named parameter is missing and true otherwise.

#argument_value returns the value of the argument as a string.

The complete list of arguments.

#at_exit f registers the function f to be executed when #finalize is called (which is the case the request finishes).

A well-known extension is the HTTPS property.

Return the parameter properties.

Return all properties as an associative list.

Returns a (possibly non-standard) CGI environment property.

This is the row query string.

We recommend you to use the method Netcgi.cgi.request_method which is more type-safe and informative.

The charset parameter of the content type of the header, or "" when there is no such parameter, or no header.

The configuration of the request.

Returns the content type of the header and its parameters as a couple (hdr, params).

#cookie cn returns the cookie with name cn.

Returns the list of valid cookies found in the request header.

This the the channel on which the filter data is available.

How many bytes of the data are available.

The data last modification time, expressed as an integer number of seconds since the epoch (January 1, 1970 UTC).

The environment object.

The filename parameter found in the header of file uploads.

#fill_in_buf() refills in_buf if needed (when empty).

This method calls #finalize for every CGI argument (including the possible one of PUT) to ensure that all files are deleted.

Arguments stored in temp files must be deleted when the argument is no longer used.

#input_all_till c returns the next chunk of input until c is reached.

Returns the "Content-length" request header field.

Returns the parsed "Content-type" request header field.

Returns the "Content-type" request header field as a plain string or "" if it is not set.

For special header structures, just override this method.

The whole HTTP header.

#input_header_field ?default f returns the value of a field f of the HTTP request header.

Returns the input header as (name,value) pairs.

You may want to override this with your custom logging method.

#log_error msg appends msg to the webserver log.

#multiple_argument name returns all the values of the argument named name.

Returns the values of all fields with the passed name of the request header.

Returns the values of all fields with the passed name of the repsonse header.

The name of the argument.

Open the contents of the value as an input channel.

The output channel to which the generated content is intended to be written.

The "raw" output channel.

For special header structures, override this method and maybe #send_output_header.

The whole HTTP response header

Returns the value of a field of the response header.

Returns the output header as (name,value) pairs.

The server protocol in a decoded form.

The representation of the argument.

The underlying apache request structure.

The HTTP method used to make the request.

A FastCGI application can fulfill each of the following three roles:

This method will encode and send the output header to the output channel.

Sets the header (removing any previous one).

Sets multiple values of a field of the response header.

Sets the value of a field of the response header.

Sets the complete response header at once.

Sets the header such that a redirection to the specified URL is performed.

Sets the response status.

Tells whether the argument is stored in memory (as a string) or as a file (the argument of `File being the filename).

The following environment properties must be available for this method to work properly (please make sure your connector provides them; the CGI spec make them compulsory anyway): cgi_server_name, cgi_server_port, cgi_script_name, cgi_path_info

Returns the URL of the current CGI-like script.

This is a convenience method that returns the "User-agent" field of the HTTP request header.

The value of the argument, after all transfer encodings have been removed.

write buf ofs len writes the substring buf.[ofs .. ofs+len-1] to the file descriptor.