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Version 2.0.0 of cdpr now supports transmiting the data decoded to a server.
In lieu of writing my own cdpr server, I decided that I would send the data to
a web server using a GET request. This has several advantages:
- I didn't have to write a server
- You can have your webserver do whatever you want with the data
- Put it in a database
- Log it to a text file
- etc.
- You can write your server piece in the language of your choice (PHP, ASP, Perl, C, etc.)
as it's just a standard HTTP GET request.
*Details on the config file
The config file should contain one line that has the host to connect to and the relative URL
to request. For example:
[cdpr.conf]
cdpr_svr.monkeymental.com /cdprs.php
<EOF>
This will instruct cdpr to connect to the machine cdpr_svr.monkeymental.com and request the URL
/cdprs/cpdrs.php. This would be the same as http://cdpr_svr.monkeymental.com/cdprs/cdprs.php in
a web browser. The server and the URL should be seperated by a whitespace character (i.e. a [Tab])
*Details on the GET request:
cdpr will execute the following query to port 80 of the server in the config file:
GET /cdprs.php?switch_ip=10.100.248.15&port=4%2F3&loc=test&host=mvislnx HTTP/1.0
The request will have the following variables assosciated with it:
switch_ip: The IP address of the switch the machine running cdpr is connected to.
port: The port that the machine running cdpr is connected to.
loc: The optional location identifier passed on the command line using -l
host: The hostname of the machine running cdpr (or whatever is passed on the command
line if using the hostname override option -n)
How you access this data depends on what language you are writing your scripts in. If you were
using PHP, you could access them with $_GET["variable"] (i.e. $_GET["switch_ip"]) Once you have
the data in your web page/cgi script, you can do with it as you wish, such as store it in a text
file, Populate a SQL database, etc.
*Notes:
A few things to note about the CDPR Server functionallity:
- Any output from the webserver is ignored
- Only one attempt is made to send the data
- Port and location are urlencoded to handle any "odd" characters (like a /)
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