BBMESSAGE.CGI

Section: User Commands (1)
Updated: Version Exp: 11 Oct 2005
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NAME

bbmessage.cgi - CGI program receiving Hobbit messages sent over HTTP  

SYNOPSIS

bbmessage.cgi

 

DESCRIPTION

bbmessage.cgi is invoked as a CGI script. The purpose of this CGI is to forward incoming Hobbit status-messages sent via HTTP to the local Hobbit daemon running on the same server as the web server. This allows for sending messages via HTTP from clients and network-test programs. It is thus the server-side component of the bb(1) client for tunnelling Hobbit traffic over HTTP.

The CGI expects to be invoked from an HTTP "POST" request, with the POST-data being the status-message. bbmessage.cgi simply collects all of the POST data, and send it off as a message to the bbd daemon running on IP 127.0.0.1. This destination IP currently cannot be changed, except by changing the sendmsg.c C source-file.

The CGI will return any output provided by the bbd daemon back to the requestor as the response to the HTTP POST, so this allows for the bbgen protocol extensions "query" and "config".

 

SEE ALSO

bb(1), bb-hosts(5), hobbitserver.cfg(5), hobbit(7)


 

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