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Date: Fri, 25 May 2007 10:19:21 +0200
From: Anique van der Vlugt <anique@meglakor.co.za>
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Subject: Re: Looking for info wrt requests and no newline
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Just to let you know ... My module is finally working now.  The pointers 
were spot on.

Many thanks Bill.

Anique van der Vlugt wrote:
> Thanks Bill for the pointers (c.f. mod_echo, mod_http, mod_ftp), I will 
> have a look.  Many thanks :)
> 
> *Anique*
> 
> William A. Rowe, Jr. wrote:
>> Anique van der Vlugt wrote:
>>> I should have had my morning coffee before submitting this *wink*
>>>
>>> David Wortham wrote:
>>>> Anique,
>>>>   I'm a little confused by your question.
>>>>
>>>>   AFAIK, HTTP headers end in a newline which seperates them from the 
>>>> next
>>>> line of the header. You don't _have_ to respond to the full URI in the
>>>> GET/POST/etc header line.  Your module can modify the incoming 
>>>> request or
>>>> your module can do something like what mod_rewrite does and match only
>>>> part
>>>> of the request URI (by using a partial-line Regular Expression). Or
>>>> did you
>>>> mean something completely different when you asked "Is there anyway of
>>>> accepting requests which end in anything other than a newline"?
>>>>
>>>> I don't think it's pertinant to answering your question, but I also 
>>>> don't
>>>> understand what you mean when you say your module "accept[s] requests
>>>> from a
>>>> 3rd party".  Don't all Apache requests respond to the same third party
>>>> that
>>>> initiated the request?
>>> We are integrating a credit card POS machine (which is what I meant by
>>> 3rd party) with an Apache server that does the request handling so we
>>> are trying to write an Apache module that handles requests from the POS
>>> device.  The device sends a string terminating with a checksum and NOT a
>>> newline character.  So, we are not using any headers etc just a request
>>> string, if that makes sense?
>>
>> It does (to me, I've done similar long before there was a 
>> public-internet).
>>
>> The trouble is, that is NOT HTTP protocol.  You will need to write your
>> very own protocol module.  c.f. mod_echo, mod_http, mod_ftp.
>>
>> Bill
>>
>