> Hi again--
>
> On Wed, Nov 19, 2014 at 3:28 AM, Roberto De Ioris <[email protected]>
> wrote:
>
>>> However, my question may have been unclear. My main - or at least
>>> initial - objective is not to develop a uWSGI plugin for Racket, but a
>>> Racket library that handles communication with the HTTP server using
>>> the uwsgi protocol. Perhaps I misunderstand how uWSGI works, but I
>>> think those are, or can be, two different things.
>>
>> Yes, tow different things, the procotol is named 'uwsgi' and it is
>> described here:
>
> Okay, at least I have *some* idea of what is going on. Good to know.
>
>> http://uwsgi-docs.readthedocs.org/en/latest/Protocol.html
>
> Yes, as I stated in my initial message, I've read that, and that's
> exactly why I'm confused. It describes only the packet encoding. Is
> that really the entire protocol? What I am trying to understand is the
> high-level message format. Is it simply a matter of encoding normal
> HTTP messages in the uwsgi packet format? If so, I can certainly
> handle that, but I don't find it at all obvious that that's what
> should happen. And if there is some other message format, then I have
> no idea what to do.
>
>> a fast parser in C is here:
>>
>> https://github.com/unbit/vpn-ws/blob/master/src/uwsgi.c#L9
>
> Okay, I do see some hints here - the parser is looking for strings
> like "QUERY STRING", and so on, but I cannot get a clear picture of
> what is happening. I'm not much of a C programmer, but maybe if I read
> it more thoroughly I can make some sense of it. What I think would
> help more is to see some higher-level code that shows how an
> application uses the parser.
>
> Anyway, thank you. I need to get some sleep.
>
> --
>

the protocol (like FastCGI and SCGI) transport a dictionary containing CGI
variables. This is probably the step you are missing


-- 
Roberto De Ioris
http://unbit.it
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