c2w 0.0.0

convert CLI programs to web services

c2w

The c2w utility converts a CLI program to a Web service.

Installation

% pip install c2w

Getting Startted

We convert kramdown to a web service to get an online Markdown renderer.

% c2w --mime text/html kramdown

c2w is serving on 127.0.0.1:8000 now. The query string will be split by & and sent to kramdown as arguments. The request body will be sent to the stdin of kramdown and the stdout of kramdown will be sent to the browser.

% curl http://localhost:8000 -X POST --data-binary @- << __EOF__
# TITLE

This is **strong**.
__EOF__

We could get the following.

<h1 id="title">TITLE</h1>

<p>This is <strong>strong</strong>.</p>

Serving as a CGI program with an HTTP Server

The HTTP server provided by c2w is not mature enough. You may want to use Apache HTTPd or Nginx. To achieve this you can run c2w in CGI mode.

Create a simple Shell script named netmark.

#!/bin/bash

c2w --cgi --mime text/html kramdown

Give it the execution permission and put it in the cgi-bin directory of your HTTP serve. Now you get an online Markdown renderer at ..../cgi-bin/netmark.

Detailed Usage

Run c2w --help.