HttpFormInputModule

= Name =

form-input-nginx-module

= Description =

This is a nginx module that reads HTTP POST and PUT request body encoded in "application/x-www-form-urlencoded", and parses the arguments in request body into nginx variables.

This module depends on the ngx_devel_kit(NDK) module.

= Installation =

To install HttpFormInputModule:


 * 1) Get the nginx source code from nginx.net.
 * 2) Get the ngx_devel_kit source code from GitHub simpl-it/ngx_devel_kit repository.
 * 3) Unpack the source code and build nginx with this module.

$ wget 'http://sysoev.ru/nginx/nginx-0.8.28.tar.gz' $ tar -xzvf nginx-0.8.28.tar.gz   $ cd nginx-0.8.28/

$ git-clone http://github.com/simpl-it/ngx_devel_kit.git $ git-clone http://github.com/calio/form-input-nginx-module.git

$ ./configure --add-module=/somepath/form-input-nginx-module --add-module=/somepath/ngx_devel_kit $ make -j2 $ make install

= Usage =

set_form_input $variable; set_form_input $variable argument;

set_form_input_multi $variable; set_form_input_multi $variable argument;

Example:

#nginx.conf

location /foo { set_form_input $data;   # read "data" field into $data set_form_input $foo foo; # read "foo" field into $foo }   location /bar { set_form_input_multi $data; # read all "data" field into $data set_form_input_multi $foo data; # read all "data" field into $foo array_join ' ' $data; # now $data is a string array_join ' ' $foo; # now $foo is a string }

= Compatibility =

The following versions of Nginx should work with this module:


 * 0.8.x <= 0.8.41                      (last tested version is 0.8.43)
 * 0.7.x                                (last tested version is 0.7.67)

= Copyright & License =

Copyright (c) 2010, Taobao Inc., Alibaba Group ( http://www.taobao.com ).

Copyright (c) 2010, calio .

This module is licensed under the terms of the BSD license.

Redistribution and use in source and binary forms, with or without modification, are permitted provided that the following conditions are met:

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= Changelog =

Changes with form-input-module v0.0.2

*) Supports set_form_input_multi *) Supports PUT method

Changes with form-input-module v0.0.1

*) Supports set_form_input