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Description
Magi Library (libmagi) implements Gateway Interfaces, namely CGI and FastCGI.
Overview
Magi are free and open-source software: legal info is in the 'license' file.
They are written in ANSI C, without any dependecies, except for C standard
library. All source and header files are located in the 'src' directory.
The 'include' directory is intended to be used in your include environment.
Headers themselves are in 'magi' subdirectory of include, due to their short
and simple names. If you are not about choosing which header to include and
just want everything to be included you can use 'magi.h'.
Compiling
Compilation and its options are described in the 'Makefile'.
Running 'make' produces 'libmagi.a' file, which is precompiled library itself,
ready to be statically linked into your project.
Examples
Compilation and its options are described in the local 'examples/Makefile'.
Running 'make' in the 'examples' directory produces 'append', 'cookie',
'upload', and 'echo' CGI executables. Descriptions and details are in
corresponding source files.
Usage
magi_request analyses incoming request, general workflow is to:
1. Prepare request for analysis, setup defaults via 'magi_request_setup';
2. Process non-post part of the CGI request via 'magi_request_cgi';
(The division of post and non-post analysis comes from the fact that
post body can be really huge, so you probably will want to specify
some constraints on it, based on non-post info. For example session id
from non-post part allowes some users (e.g. admins) to load more in post.)
3. Process post part of the CGI request via 'magi_request_resume_cgi';
4. Now you have the full request analysed, so do your work;
5. And finally, free memory via 'magi_request_destroy'.
For more see 'src/request.h'.
magi_response provides output capabilities. You can form the response with
'magi_response_setup' used to setup defaults, and the following functions to
fill in your data ('...' means 'magi_response_'):
...content_type: set Content Type (by default XHTML);
...cookie: set HTTP Cookie;
...cookie_discard: discard HTTP Cookie;
...http: setup arbitarary HTTP header;
...add: add something to the body;
...add_format: add comething to the body, using format (similar to printf);
Outputting itself can be done with 'magi_response_cgi'.
To correctly free all occupied memory call 'magi_response_destroy'.
For more see 'src/response.h'.
Motivation
Web must be fun.
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