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What mechanism tied an inbound http request to the moo?

• digitalsushi 4y ago
  I was using a log watcher that could run a command on a regex match, but I remember having an elaborate .htaccess that would shell out all kinds of things... many ways to tie them together, all very hacky.
  • thakoppno 4y ago
    thank you for this insight. it might not even be that hacky to be honest. in some ways modern log aggregation isn’t that different, just insulated by more steps and safe guards. less moos though.
  • deleted 4y ago
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    • sukilot 4y ago
• RockRobotRock 4y ago
  I'm trying to imagine what was popular back then. A Perl CGI script?
  • valleyer 4y ago
    Perhaps showing my age, but that is still how I would do it. It's dead simple.
    • kqr 4y ago
      Even simpler is tailing the access log into a script that makes sound upon matching the correct path.
• numpad0 4y ago
  Years ago I had /var/www/lights_on.sh that turned lights on in my room. Only hardened against RCE by Wi-Fi password, but was possible. It broke later. The real problem was that browsers sometimes prefetched it.