Variation of mod_include -- pointers?

Dear Apache Module Experts,

I would like to write an Apache module that is variation of
'mod_include'. For SSI, mod_include parses the file, extracts code
segments, execute them, and send the results (along with non-code text)
back to client.

Does anyone have pointers (examples, docs, anything) on how to
- get the entire content of file as single string, and
- give a replacement string back to Apache to send to client.
?

Background:
I'm trying to write "mod_bash" where the embedded code is
shell script, instead of PHP, Java (JSP), or MS-Basic (ASP).
Right now, I can do the whole thing from command line. But,
obviously, I have to do this from Apache inside.

Yours truly,
--
William Park, Open Geometry Consulting, <opengeometry@yahoo.ca>
No, I will not fix your computer! I'll reformat your harddisk, though.

In article <2jip4jF10qf6jU1@uni-berlin.de>,
William Park <opengeometry@yahoo.ca> writes:

> Does anyone have pointers (examples, docs, anything) on how to
> - get the entire content of file as single string, and
> - give a replacement string back to Apache to send to client.

That's simple enough. But also very inefficient.


> Background:

That's more helpful.

> I'm trying to write "mod_bash" where the embedded code is
> shell script,

The easy way to do that would be either to use CGI or to hook it in
with mod_ext_filter. I think hooking bash in in the manner of
mod_perl or mod_python would be a rather big job.

--
Nick Kew

Nick's manifesto: http://www.htmlhelp.com/~nick/

Nick Kew <nick@hugin.webthing.com> wrote:
> In article <2jip4jF10qf6jU1@uni-berlin.de>,
> William Park <opengeometry@yahoo.ca> writes:
>
> > Does anyone have pointers (examples, docs, anything) on how to
> > - get the entire content of file as single string, and
> > - give a replacement string back to Apache to send to client.
>
> That's simple enough. But also very inefficient.
>
>
> > Background:
>
> That's more helpful.
>
> > I'm trying to write "mod_bash" where the embedded code is
> > shell script,
>
> The easy way to do that would be either to use CGI or to hook it in
> with mod_ext_filter. I think hooking bash in in the manner of
> mod_perl or mod_python would be a rather big job.

Yes, CGI (with PATH_INFO) was my first thought, but I'm looking for a
way to reduce the 2-step to just one. I'll see what I can steal from
mod_cgi or mod_ext_filter.

My command line solution for HTML template can be found at
http://freshmeat.net/projects/basp/
which I've named it Bash Active Server Pages (BASP) for now. :-)

--
William Park, Open Geometry Consulting, <opengeometry@yahoo.ca>
No, I will not fix your computer! I'll reformat your harddisk, though.