GNU-devel ELPA - url-scgi

First, require url-scgi:

(require 'url-scgi)

Now, to make an SCGI request with url-scgi, simply call url-retrieve or url-retrieve-synchronously with a URL starting with scgi://.

For example, let's assume you have some program listening for SCGI requests on localhost port 5000. You can then issue a request containing the string some-data with:

(url-retrieve-synchronously "scgi://localhost:5000/some-data")

You will want to replace some-data with something relevant to the program you are talking to. Please refer to its documentation for details.

If your application supports XML-RPC (remote procedure calls) over SCGI, you can make such calls using url-scgi with the xml-rpc package. For example, if your program supports an XML-RPC method named foo, you would call it like so:

(require 'url-scgi)
(require 'xml-rpc)
(xml-rpc-method-call "scgi://localhost:5000" "foo")

For more, see the documentation of the xml-rpc package.

This library is part of GNU ELPA and therefore requires a copyright assignment to the Free Software Foundation for any non-trivial contributions.

Please email me a patch, or open a pull request on GitHub, according to your preferences.

You can find the latest version of url-scgi.el here:

https://www.github.com/skangas/url-scgi

Bug reports, comments, and suggestions are welcome! Email them to Stefan Kangas <stefankangas@gmail.com> or report them on GitHub.