Re: [fossil-users] Make a CGI request WITHOUT a script file
First of all pardon my stupidity by replying to the digest I don't have any trouble generating cgi files temporal or static ones. It is not a matter of ingenuity, but generating cgi files for tons of repos (launchpad, bitbucket, github, googlecode, I think fossil can have one too, that will boost his adoption) generates not only disk latency while reading (though small) but also security issues and a lot more of administration tasks (like backups and such). I do think that If there is a Environment Variable called Directory or repository, use that one instead is not a huge feature that will affect anyone, only benefit. Did you look at reverse-proxying to fossil server? I've improved reverse-proxying support in Fossil[1] to do something like what you're trying to do. Latest changes are available from 'ashish-ipv6' branch. References: [1] http://www.mail-archive.com/fossil-users@lists.fossil-scm.org/msg06298.html As far as I know the proxy server way can't serve multiple repos, that truly would be the most optimal way to host such a service (agan, disk latency) starting with pretty small hardware. But then again, not having to rely on lots of cgi scripts to serve the repositories it's a nice start to efficient hosting. Interesting! Will it be open source? I actually thought of it as a free service mostly using it for personal and some friends in the community, but then again I would have no trouble open sourcing it for others to use. It would have an admin interface and avatars, comments and such, a friend of mine was thinking of a theme/skin gallery too. I love how fossil works, and my goal was to enable go installservice.com/user/repository style of installing golang libraries with fossil. I assume your Go program launches Fossil. When you open a CGI process, can't you just write to its standard input: That could be, but the fossil expects the location of the file through the arguments in the command line, am i correct? As someone else pointed out everything else is expected through the environment variables. i don't think fossil can do this out of the box, but one option might be to generate the .cgi script wrappers on the fly (perhaps as temp files) Again, more secure, but twice the latency. Thank you for all your support and answers, I appreciate them a lot. If anyone knows a way around it, or if it's easy to implement a env check for the route it would be awesome. Cheers, Guillermo Estrada -- No le digas a Dios lo grande de tu tormenta, mejor dile a tu tormenta lo grande de tu Dios. ___ fossil-users mailing list fossil-users@lists.fossil-scm.org http://lists.fossil-scm.org:8080/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/fossil-users
Re: [fossil-users] Make a CGI request WITHOUT a script file
On Mar 4, 2012, at 10:43 , Guillermo Estrada wrote: As far as I know the proxy server way can't serve multiple repos, that truly would be the most optimal way to host such a service (agan, disk latency) starting with pretty small hardware. But then again, not having to rely on lots of cgi scripts to serve the repositories it's a nice start to efficient hosting. Why? The server itself supports multiple repositories. I'm reverse-proxying to a single Fossil instance serving over 20 repos at http://dev.lrem.net/ and it works like a charm... Kind regards, Remigiusz Modrzejewski ___ fossil-users mailing list fossil-users@lists.fossil-scm.org http://lists.fossil-scm.org:8080/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/fossil-users
Re: [fossil-users] Make a CGI request WITHOUT a script file
Why? The server itself supports multiple repositories. I'm reverse-proxying to a single Fossil instance serving over 20 repos at http://dev.lrem.net/ and it works like a charm... From here: http://lists.fossil-scm.org:8080/pipermail/fossil-users/2010-January/001997.html I read a lot of useful information about the reverse proxy option. I have already tested it and it works with subdirectories too! (ie. /user/repository) in the url, so it's going to be the way to go. Thank you for pointing it to me. Just a question, is there any way to serve and index or do a redirect? The reverse proxy always need a repository when accessed by the url. But when I go to / it just sends a 404 Not Found as expected. I guess that is not gonna matter cause I intend to catch all routing with my app before serving them with the reverse proxy, but anyway it would be nice to know. Thank you for all your knowledge and guidance. Sincerely, Guillermo Estrada -- No le digas a Dios lo grande de tu tormenta, mejor dile a tu tormenta lo grande de tu Dios. ___ fossil-users mailing list fossil-users@lists.fossil-scm.org http://lists.fossil-scm.org:8080/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/fossil-users
Re: [fossil-users] Make a CGI request WITHOUT a script file
On Sat, Mar 3, 2012 at 12:04 AM, Guillermo Estrada phroze...@gmail.comwrote: I do know CGI conventions and standards do not work like that, but is there something I don't know about fossil? Is there a way to request a feature to do this? This will boost a lot the potential of running fossil repositories behind dynamic applications. i don't think fossil can do this out of the box, but one option might be to generate the .cgi script wrappers on the fly (perhaps as temp files), and then run: fossil cgi /path/to/the/script -- - stephan beal http://wanderinghorse.net/home/stephan/ http://gplus.to/sgbeal ___ fossil-users mailing list fossil-users@lists.fossil-scm.org http://lists.fossil-scm.org:8080/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/fossil-users
Re: [fossil-users] Make a CGI request WITHOUT a script file
On Fri, Mar 2, 2012 at 6:04 PM, Guillermo Estrada phroze...@gmail.comwrote: Hi, I've been trying to implement a webservice that hosts fossil repositories. Kinda like chiselapp.com . I have achieved running my own server app written in golang to make the CGI requests in a routed handler (i.e /user/repository ), but the problem I'm facing is that the only way I can make it work is if a cgi script exists to pass as argument to fossil. Is there any way around this? Like setting the repository or directory in an environment variable or something? You can understand that I don't want having lots of CGI scripts around when I could just ask the database and call fossil through cgi direclty, reading through 1 or 2 line cgi scripts dosn't seem much, but it is unecessary for a service like this (creating the scripts for each user/repo setting file permissions, etc...) when I can just point fossil where the directory or repository is. I do know CGI conventions and standards do not work like that, but is there something I don't know about fossil? Is there a way to request a feature to do this? This will boost a lot the potential of running fossil repositories behind dynamic applications. I experimented some with adding the capability to specify the repository on the CGI command-line. But this seems like a relatively obscure feature. And it looks like that once I add it, it will soon be followed by a cascade of related requests for options to specify a repository directory, a debug log, options to specify the home directory, etc, etc. You already have to have a separate repository file for each client in your service: x.fossil. How much more trouble is it, really, to have a separate CGI file in the same directory: x.cgi. Thank you for the suggestion, but I think this is something that is best left to the ingenuity of the web service. Thanks to everyone for your wisdom and guidance in this matter. Sincerely, Guillermo Estrada -- No le digas a Dios lo grande de tu tormenta, mejor dile a tu tormenta lo grande que es tu Dios. ___ fossil-users mailing list fossil-users@lists.fossil-scm.org http://lists.fossil-scm.org:8080/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/fossil-users -- D. Richard Hipp d...@sqlite.org ___ fossil-users mailing list fossil-users@lists.fossil-scm.org http://lists.fossil-scm.org:8080/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/fossil-users
Re: [fossil-users] Make a CGI request WITHOUT a script file
On 03/03/2012 12:04 AM, Guillermo Estrada wrote: Hi, I've been trying to implement a webservice that hosts fossil repositories. Kinda like chiselapp.com http://chiselapp.com . I have achieved running my own server app written in golang to make the CGI requests in a routed handler (i.e /user/repository ), but the problem I'm facing is that the only way I can make it work is if a cgi script exists to pass as argument to fossil. Interesting! Will it be open source? Is there any way around this? I assume your Go program launches Fossil. When you open a CGI process, can't you just write to its standard input: repository: /path/to/repo.fossil ? -- Dmitry Chestnykh http://www.codingrobots.com ___ fossil-users mailing list fossil-users@lists.fossil-scm.org http://lists.fossil-scm.org:8080/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/fossil-users
Re: [fossil-users] Make a CGI request WITHOUT a script file
On Sat, Mar 3, 2012 at 3:30 PM, Dmitry Chestnykh dmi...@codingrobots.comwrote: I assume your Go program launches Fossil. When you open a CGI process, can't you just write to its standard input: repository: /path/to/repo.fossil That won't work: the stdin for a CGI process is the HTTP request headers and POST data. -- - stephan beal http://wanderinghorse.net/home/stephan/ http://gplus.to/sgbeal ___ fossil-users mailing list fossil-users@lists.fossil-scm.org http://lists.fossil-scm.org:8080/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/fossil-users
Re: [fossil-users] Make a CGI request WITHOUT a script file
On 03/03/2012 03:34 PM, Stephan Beal wrote: On Sat, Mar 3, 2012 at 3:30 PM, Dmitry Chestnykh dmi...@codingrobots.com mailto:dmi...@codingrobots.com wrote: I assume your Go program launches Fossil. When you open a CGI process, can't you just write to its standard input: repository: /path/to/repo.fossil That won't work: the stdin for a CGI process is the HTTP request headers and POST data. Of course! Pardon my moment of stupidity. -- Dmitry Chestnykh http;//www.codingrobots.com ___ fossil-users mailing list fossil-users@lists.fossil-scm.org http://lists.fossil-scm.org:8080/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/fossil-users
Re: [fossil-users] Make a CGI request WITHOUT a script file
Guillermo Estrada writes: Hi, I've been trying to implement a webservice that hosts fossil repositories. Kinda like chiselapp.com . I have achieved running my own server app written in golang to make the CGI requests in a routed handler (i.e /user/repository ), but the problem I'm facing is that the only way I can make it work is if a cgi script exists to pass as argument to fossil. Is there any way around this? Like setting the repository or directory in an environment variable or something? You can understand that I don't want having lots of CGI scripts around when I could just ask the database and call fossil through cgi direclty, reading through 1 or 2 line cgi scripts dosn't seem much, but it is unecessary for a service like this (creating the scripts for each user/repo setting file permissions, etc...) when I can just point fossil where the directory or repository is. I do know CGI conventions and standards do not work like that, but is there something I don't know about fossil? Is there a way to request a feature to do this? This will boost a lot the potential of running fossil repositories behind dynamic applications. Thanks to everyone for your wisdom and guidance in this matter. Did you look at reverse-proxying to fossil server? I've improved reverse-proxying support in Fossil[1] to do something like what you're trying to do. Latest changes are available from 'ashish-ipv6' branch. References: [1] http://www.mail-archive.com/fossil-users@lists.fossil-scm.org/msg06298.html HTH -- Ashish SHUKLA “There are two major products that come out of Berkeley: LSD and UNIX. We don't believe this to be a coincidence.” (Jeremy S. Anderson) pgpTEkvtRaBpj.pgp Description: PGP signature ___ fossil-users mailing list fossil-users@lists.fossil-scm.org http://lists.fossil-scm.org:8080/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/fossil-users
[fossil-users] Make a CGI request WITHOUT a script file
Hi, I've been trying to implement a webservice that hosts fossil repositories. Kinda like chiselapp.com . I have achieved running my own server app written in golang to make the CGI requests in a routed handler (i.e /user/repository ), but the problem I'm facing is that the only way I can make it work is if a cgi script exists to pass as argument to fossil. Is there any way around this? Like setting the repository or directory in an environment variable or something? You can understand that I don't want having lots of CGI scripts around when I could just ask the database and call fossil through cgi direclty, reading through 1 or 2 line cgi scripts dosn't seem much, but it is unecessary for a service like this (creating the scripts for each user/repo setting file permissions, etc...) when I can just point fossil where the directory or repository is. I do know CGI conventions and standards do not work like that, but is there something I don't know about fossil? Is there a way to request a feature to do this? This will boost a lot the potential of running fossil repositories behind dynamic applications. Thanks to everyone for your wisdom and guidance in this matter. Sincerely, Guillermo Estrada -- No le digas a Dios lo grande de tu tormenta, mejor dile a tu tormenta lo grande que es tu Dios. ___ fossil-users mailing list fossil-users@lists.fossil-scm.org http://lists.fossil-scm.org:8080/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/fossil-users
