On 2017-03-20, Vered Zvi <[email protected]> wrote:

> I'm working with busybox 1.25.1 I have to run a web server under
> vanilla Linux (and busybox) Upon http request to display a web page,
> the web server has also to collect some data from the target and
> display it in the HTML page.
>
> What is the right solution for my scenario?

42

> Can I use httpd?

Yes

> How can httpd collect data?

cgi:

  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Common_Gateway_Interface

For many things, cgi pages written in shell work very nicely, but you
can also implement cgi pages in C (or any other programming langague):

http://www.linuxjournal.com/article/6863
https://www.cs.tut.fi/~jkorpela/forms/cgic.html

There are a number of small C libraries to help with CGI:

 https://www.google.com/search?q=cgi+C+library

I've been happy with https://sourceforge.net/projects/libccgi/

> The information contained in this communication is proprietary to
> Israel Aerospace Industries Ltd. and/or third parties, may contain
> confidential or privileged information,  [blah, blah, blah]

Gee, then you probobably shouldn't have splattered it all over the
Interwebs, eh?

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