Catalyst::Controller::WrapCGI - Run CGIs in Catalyst
package MyApp::Controller::Foo; use parent qw/Catalyst::Controller::WrapCGI/; use CGI (); sub hello : Path('cgi-bin/hello.cgi') { my ($self, $c) = @_; $self->cgi_to_response($c, sub { my $q = CGI->new; print $q->header, $q->start_html('Hello'), $q->h1('Catalyst Rocks!'), $q->end_html; }); }
In your .conf, configure which environment variables to pass:
<Controller::Foo> <CGI> username_field username # used for REMOTE_USER env var pass_env PERL5LIB pass_env PATH pass_env /^MYAPP_/ kill_env MYAPP_BAD </CGI> </Controller::Foo>
Allows you to run Perl code in a CGI environment derived from your Catalyst context.
*WARNING*: do not export CGI functions into a Controller, it will break with Catalyst 5.8 onward.
If you just want to run CGIs from files, see Catalyst::Controller::CGIBin.
REMOTE_USER will be set to $c->user->obj->$username_field if available, or to $c->req->remote_user otherwise.
REMOTE_USER
$c->user->obj->$username_field
$c->req->remote_user
$your_controller->{CGI}{pass_env} should be an array of environment variables or regular expressions to pass through to your CGIs. Entries surrounded by / characters are considered regular expressions.
$your_controller->{CGI}{pass_env}
/
$your_controller->{CGI}{kill_env} should be an array of environment variables or regular expressions to remove from the environment before passing it to your CGIs. Entries surrounded by / characters are considered regular expressions.
$your_controller->{CGI}{kill_env}
Default is to pass the whole of %ENV, except for entries listed in "FILTERED ENVIRONMENT" below.
%ENV
$your_controller->{CGI}{username_field} should be the field for your user's name, which will be read from $c->user->obj. Defaults to 'username'.
$your_controller->{CGI}{username_field}
$c->user->obj
See "SYNOPSIS" for an example.
$self->cgi_to_response($c, $coderef)
Does the magic of running $coderef in a CGI environment, and populating the appropriate parts of your Catalyst context with the results.
Calls "wrap_cgi".
$self->wrap_cgi($c, $coderef)
Runs $coderef in a CGI environment using HTTP::Request::AsCGI, returns an HTTP::Response.
$coderef
The CGI environment is set up based on $c.
$c
The environment variables to pass on are taken from the configuration for your Controller, see "SYNOPSIS" for an example. If you don't supply a list of environment variables to pass, the whole of %ENV is used (with exceptions listed in "FILTERED ENVIRONMENT".
Used by "cgi_to_response", which is probably what you want to use as well.
If you don't use the "pass_env" option to restrict which environment variables are passed in, the default is to pass the whole of %ENV except the variables listed below.
MOD_PERL SERVER_SOFTWARE SERVER_NAME GATEWAY_INTERFACE SERVER_PROTOCOL SERVER_PORT REQUEST_METHOD PATH_INFO PATH_TRANSLATED SCRIPT_NAME QUERY_STRING REMOTE_HOST REMOTE_ADDR AUTH_TYPE REMOTE_USER REMOTE_IDENT CONTENT_TYPE CONTENT_LENGTH HTTP_ACCEPT HTTP_USER_AGENT
%ENV can be further trimmed using "kill_env".
This currently won't work:
#!/usr/bin/perl use CGI ':standard'; $| = 1; print header; for (0..1000) { print $_, br, "\n"; sleep 1; }
because the coderef is executed synchronously with STDOUT pointing to a temp file.
STDOUT
Original development sponsored by http://www.altinity.com/
Catalyst::Controller::CGIBin, CatalystX::GlobalContext, Catalyst::Controller, CGI, Catalyst
Please report any bugs or feature requests to bug-catalyst-controller-wrapcgi at rt.cpan.org, or through the web interface at http://rt.cpan.org/NoAuth/ReportBug.html?Queue=Catalyst-Controller-WrapCGI. I will be notified, and then you'll automatically be notified of progress on your bug as I make changes.
bug-catalyst-controller-wrapcgi at rt.cpan.org
Matt S. Trout <mst at shadowcat.co.uk>
<mst at shadowcat.co.uk>
Caelum: Rafael Kitover <rkitover@cpan.org>
confound: Hans Dieter Pearcey <hdp@cpan.org>
rbuels: Robert Buels <rbuels@gmail.com>
Some code stolen from Tatsuhiko Miyagawa's CGI::Compile.
Copyright (c) 2008-2015 "AUTHOR" in Catalyst::Controller::WrapCGI and "CONTRIBUTORS" in Catalyst::Controller::WrapCGI.
This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the same terms as Perl itself.
To install Catalyst::Controller::WrapCGI, copy and paste the appropriate command in to your terminal.
cpanm
cpanm Catalyst::Controller::WrapCGI
CPAN shell
perl -MCPAN -e shell install Catalyst::Controller::WrapCGI
For more information on module installation, please visit the detailed CPAN module installation guide.