Constructor Detail

• CGIServlet.CGIRunner

  protected CGIServlet.CGIRunner(String command,
                      Hashtable<String,String> env,
                      File wd,
                      ArrayList<String> params)

  Creates a CGIRunner and initializes its environment, working directory, and query parameters.
  Input/output streams (optional) are set using the setInput and setResponse methods, respectively.

  Parameters:

  command - string full path to command to be executed

  env - Hashtable with the desired script environment

  wd - File with the script's desired working directory

  params - ArrayList with the script's query command line parameters as strings

Method Detail

• updateReadyStatus

  protected void updateReadyStatus()

  Checks and sets ready status

• isReady

  protected boolean isReady()

  Gets ready status

  Returns:

  false if not ready (run will throw an exception), true if ready

• setResponse

  protected void setResponse(HttpServletResponse response)

  Sets HttpServletResponse object used to set headers and send output to

  Parameters:

  response - HttpServletResponse to be used

• setInput

  protected void setInput(InputStream stdin)

  Sets standard input to be passed on to the invoked cgi script

  Parameters:

  stdin - InputStream to be used

• hashToStringArray

  protected String[] hashToStringArray(Hashtable<String,?> h)
                                throws NullPointerException

  Converts a Hashtable to a String array by converting each key/value pair in the Hashtable to a String in the form "key=value" (hashkey + "=" + hash.get(hashkey).toString())

  Parameters:

  h - Hashtable to convert

  Returns:

  converted string array

  Throws:

  NullPointerException - if a hash key has a null value

• run

  protected void run()
              throws IOException

  Executes a CGI script with the desired environment, current working directory, and input/output streams

  This implements the following CGI specification recommendations:

  • Servers SHOULD provide the "query" component of the script-URI as command-line arguments to scripts if it does not contain any unencoded "=" characters and the command-line arguments can be generated in an unambiguous manner.
  • Servers SHOULD set the AUTH_TYPE metavariable to the value of the "auth-scheme" token of the "Authorization" if it was supplied as part of the request header. See getCGIEnvironment method.
  • Where applicable, servers SHOULD set the current working directory to the directory in which the script is located before invoking it.
  • Server implementations SHOULD define their behavior for the following cases:
    • Allowed characters in pathInfo: This implementation does not allow ASCII NUL nor any character which cannot be URL-encoded according to internet standards;
    • Allowed characters in path segments: This implementation does not allow non-terminal NULL segments in the the path -- IOExceptions may be thrown;
    • "." and ".." path segments: This implementation does not allow "." and ".." in the the path, and such characters will result in an IOException being thrown (this should never happen since Tomcat normalises the requestURI before determining the contextPath, servletPath and pathInfo);
    • Implementation limitations: This implementation does not impose any limitations except as documented above. This implementation may be limited by the servlet container used to house this implementation. In particular, all the primary CGI variable values are derived either directly or indirectly from the container's implementation of the Servlet API methods.

  Throws:

  IOException - if problems during reading/writing occur

  See Also:

  Runtime.exec(String command, String[] envp, File dir)