** working in progress **

A SSI-Http Server powered by NodeJS

A Server Side Include(SSI) parser and ssi-http are provided in ssi-http-parser.

Install

npm install ssi-http-parser

Usage

The parser parse http string and return the replaced string. The parser has to be initialized.

var parser = require('ssi-parser-http').parser({
  rootDomain: process.cwd(),
  currentDocDir: process.cwd()
}, {
  HTTP_USER_AGENT: 'www.king.agent'
});


var resHttpStr = parser.run(httpStr);

The ssi-http is based on http package except it automatically check if the incoming request ends up with .shtml. To create server, createServer has to be called.

var ssiHttp = require('ssi-parser-http').http

var server = ssiHttp.createServer(callback, env).listen(port);

Explicitly specify listening port in port and static serving directory inside env. An example:

var ssiHttp = require('ssi-parser-http').http

var server = ssiHttp.createServer(function (req, res, opt) {
  // 'opt' is invoked only if the 'GET' request is for 'shtml' page. 'opt' = 'resHttpStr'.
}, {
  ROOT_DIRECTORY: __dirname,
  HTTP_USER_AGENT: 'www.king.agent'
}).listen(8081);

To enable DEBUG mode,

DEBUG=true node **.js

Supported SSI Directives

    <!--#include attribute = value -->
    <!--#echo attribute = value -->

Implementation (For Adobe reviewers)

Parsing directives is powered by regular expressions. A regexp /<!\-\-#([a-z]+)\s+([a-z]+)\s*=\s*(["'])([^]*?)\3\s+\-\->/g is sensitive enough for any mod_include syntax string. But this expression is not effective if multiple attributes in one directive, such as <!--#directive attribute1=... attribute2... -->. In parser(settings, variables).run, settings are context(so the process know where it is) for replacing the directive. rootDomain in settings is context for virtual attribute of include directive. currentDocDir is context for file attribute. variables are used for echo directive. parser(settings, variables).run function does directive replacement one by one until all supported format directives in document are replaced.

The ssi-http module basically extends the node http module with a wrapper function of http.createServer and minor changes to the resulting server instance. An ssdMiddleWare is used to filter shtml 'GET' request. The server also maintain the environment variables, which include ROOT_DIRECTORY the root directory in file system to serve. If it is not set, the current directory of running process will be treat as the ROOT_DIRECTORY.

License

MIT