Sun Java System Web Server 6.1 SP12 NSAPI Programmer's Guide

More Complex Service Example

The send-images function is a custom SAF that replaces the doit.cgi demonstration available on the iPlanet home pages. When a file is accessed as /dir1/dir2/something.picgroup, the send-images function checks if the file is being accessed by a Mozilla/1.1 browser. If not, it sends a short error message. The file something.picgroup contains a list of lines, each of which specifies a file name followed by a content-type (for example, one.gif image/gif).

To load the shared object containing your function, add the following line at the beginning of the magnus.conf file:

Init fn=load-modules shlib=yourlibrary funcs=send-images

Also, add the following line to the mime.types file:

type=magnus-internal/picgroup exts=picgroup

To execute the custom SAF during the request-response process for some object, add the following line to that object in the obj.conf file (send-images takes an optional parameter, delay, which is not used for this example):


Service method=(GET|HEAD) type=magnus-internal/picgroup fn=send-images

The source code is in service.c in the nsapi/examples/ or plugins/nsapi/examples subdirectory within the server root directory.