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17.Dd $Mdocdate: March 15 2017 $
18.Dt MAN.CGI 3
19.Os
20.Sh NAME
21.Nm man.cgi
22.Nd internals of the CGI program to search and display manual pages
23.Sh DESCRIPTION
24The source code of
25.Xr man.cgi 8
26is organized in four levels:
27.Pp
28.Bl -enum -compact
29.It
30.Sx Top level
31.It
32.Sx Page generators
33.It
34.Sx Result generators
35.It
36.Sx Utility routines
37.El
38.Ss Top level
39The top level of
40.Xr man.cgi 8
41consists of the
42.Fn main
43program and a few parser routines.
44.Bl -tag -width 1n
45.It Ft int Fn main void
46The main program
47.Bl -dash -compact
48.It
49limits execution time;
50.It
51changes to
52.Dv MAN_DIR ,
53the data directory containing all the manual trees;
54.It
55calls
56.Fn parse_manpath_conf ;
57.It
58if
59.Ev PATH_INFO
60is empty, calls
61.Fn parse_query_string ;
62otherwise,
63calls
64.Fn parse_path_info ;
65.It
66validates the manpath and the architecture;
67.It
68calls the appropriate one among the
69.Sx Page generators .
70.El
71.It Ft void Fn parse_manpath_conf "struct req *req"
72Parses and validates
73.Pa manpath.conf
74and fills
75.Va req->p
76and
77.Va req->psz .
78.It Ft void Fn parse_path_info "struct req *req" "const char *path"
79Parses and validates
80.Ev PATH_INFO ,
81clears
82.Va req->isquery ,
83and fills
84.Va req->q .
85.It Ft void Fn parse_query_string "struct req *req" "const char *qs"
86Parses and validates
87.Ev QUERY_STRING ,
88sets
89.Va req->isquery ,
90and fills
91.Va req->q .
92This function is the only user of the utility functions
93.Fn http_decode
94and
95.Fn set_query_attr .
96.El
97.Ss Page generators
98The purpose of each page generator is to print a complete HTML page,
99starting with the HTTP headers and continuing to the page footer.
100Before starting HTML output with
101.Fn resp_begin_html ,
102some page generators do some preparatory work, for example to decide
103which page to show.
104Each page generator ends with a call to
105.Fn resp_end_html .
106.Bl -tag -width 1n
107.It Ft void Fn pg_show "struct req *req" "const char *fullpath"
108This page generator is used when
109.Ev PATH_INFO
110contains the complete path to a manual page including manpath,
111section directory, optional architecture subdirectory, manual name
112and section number suffix.
113It validates the manpath, changes into it, validate the filename,
114and then calls
115.Fn resp_begin_html ,
116.Fn resp_searchform ,
117.Fn resp_show ,
118and
119.Fn resp_end_html
120in that order.
121.It Ft void Fn pg_search "const struct req *req"
122This page generator is used when
123.Ev PATH_INFO
124contains a search query in short format or when
125.Ev PATH_INFO
126is empty and a
127.Ev QUERY_STRING
128is provided.
129If possible, requests using
130.Ev QUERY_STRING
131are redirected to URIs using
132.Ev PATH_INFO
133by calling
134.Fn pg_redirect .
135Otherwise, it changes into the manpath and calls
136.Xr mansearch 3 .
137Depending on the result, it calls either
138.Fn pg_noresult
139or
140.Fn pg_searchres .
141.It Ft void Fn pg_redirect "const struct req *req" "const char *name"
142This function is special in so far as it does not print an HTML page,
143but only an HTTP 303 response with a Location: of the form:
144.Sm off
145.No http://
146.Ar host Ns /
147.Op Ar scriptname Ns /
148.Op Ar manpath Ns /
149.Op Ar arch Ns /
150.Fa name
151.Op Pf . Ar sec
152.Sm on
153.It Ft void Fn pg_noresult "const struct req *req" "const char *msg"
154This function calls
155.Fn resp_begin_html ,
156.Fn resp_searchform ,
157prints the
158.Fa msg
159passed to it, and calls
160.Fn resp_end_html .
161.It Ft void Fn pg_searchres "const struct req *req" "struct manpage *r"\
162 "size_t sz"
163This function first validates the filenames found.
164If
165.Ev QUERY_STRING
166was used and there is exactly one result,
167it writes an HTTP redirect to that result.
168Otherwise, it writes an HTML result page beginning with
169.Fn resp_begin_html
170and
171.Fn resp_searchform .
172If there is more than one result, it writes a list of links
173to all the results.
174If it was a
175.Xr man 1
176rather than an
177.Xr apropos 1
178query or if there is only one single result, it calls
179.Fn resp_show .
180Finally, it calls
181.Fn resp_end_html .
182.It Ft void Fn pg_index "const struct req *req"
183This page generator is used when
184.Ev PATH_INFO
185and
186.Ev QUERY_STRING
187are both empty.
188It calls
189.Fn resp_begin_html
190and
191.Fn resp_searchform ,
192writes links to help pages, and calls
193.Fn resp_end_html .
194.It Ft void Fn pg_error_badrequest "const char *msg"
195This page generator is used when
196.Fn main
197or
198.Fn pg_show
199detect an invalid URI.
200It calls
201.Fn resp_begin_html ,
202prints the
203.Fa msg
204provided, and calls
205.Fn resp_end_html .
206.It Ft void Fn pg_error_internal void
207This page generator is used by various functions when errors are
208detected in the
209.Pa manpath.conf
210configuration file, in
211.Xr mandoc.db 5
212databases, in the
213.Xr mandoc 3
214parser, in file system permissions, or when setting up timeouts.
215It calls
216.Fn resp_begin_html ,
217prints
218.Qq "Internal Server Error" ,
219and calls
220.Fn resp_end_html .
221Before calling
222.Fn pg_error_internal ,
223call
224.Xr warn 3
225or
226.Xr warnx 3
227to log the reason of the error to the
228.Xr httpd 8
229server log file.
230.El
231.Ss Result generators
232The purpose of result generators is to print a chunk of HTML code.
233When they print untrusted strings or characters,
234.Fn html_print
235and
236.Fn html_putchar
237are used.
238The highest level result generators are:
239.Bl -tag -width 1n
240.It Ft void Fn resp_begin_html "int code" "const char *msg" "const char *file"
241This generator calls
242.Fn resp_begin_http
243to print the HTTP headers, then prints the HTML header up to the
244opening tag of the <body> element, then copies the file
245.Pa header.html
246to the output, if it exists and is readable.
247If
248.Fa file
249is not
250.Dv NULL ,
251it is used for the <title> element.
252.It Ft void Fn resp_searchform "const struct req *req" "enum focus focus"
253This generator prints a search form, filling it with data
254from the provided request object.
255If the
256.Fa focus
257argument is
258.Dv FOCUS_QUERY ,
259it sets the document's autofocus to the query input box.
260.It Ft void Fn resp_show "const struct req *req" "const char *file"
261This wrapper dispatches to either
262.Fn resp_catman
263or
264.Fn resp_format ,
265depending on whether
266.Ar file
267starts with
268.Pa cat
269or
270.Pa man ,
271respectively.
272.It Ft void Fn resp_catman "const struct req *req" "const char *file"
273This generator translates a preformatted, backspace-encoded manual
274page to HTML and prints it to the output.
275.It Ft void Fn resp_format "const struct req *req" "const char *file"
276This generator formats a manual page on the standard output,
277using the functions documented in
278.Xr mchars_alloc 3
279and
280.Xr mandoc 3 .
281.It Ft void Fn resp_end_html void
282This generator copies the file
283.Pa footer.html
284to the output, if it exists and is readable,
285and closes the <body> and <html> elements.
286.El
287.Ss Utility routines
288These functions take a string and return 1 if it is valid, or 0 otherwise.
289.Bl -tag -width 1n
290.It Ft int Fn validate_urifrag "const char *frag"
291Checks that the string only contains alphanumeric ASCII characters,
292dashes, dots, slashes, and underscores.
293.It Ft int Fn validate_manpath "const struct req *req" "const char* manpath"
294Checks that the string is either
295.Qq mandoc
296or one of the manpaths configured in
297.Pa manpath.conf .
298.It Ft int Fn validate_filename "const char *file"
299Checks that the string starts with
300.Qq man
301or
302.Qq cat
303and does not ascend to parent directories.
304.El
305.Sh SEE ALSO
306.Xr mandoc 3 ,
307.Xr mansearch 3 ,
308.Xr mchars_alloc 3 ,
309.Xr mandoc.db 5 ,
310.Xr man.cgi 8
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