Rex Swain's Server-Side Include Demo

Last updated 13 May 2005

View Source Code:
ssidemo.shtml ssidemo.html ssidemo.sh ssidemo.cgi

Note that Netscape calls this facility "Server-Parsed HTML"; Microsoft calls them "Server-Side Includes".

Following is a demonstration of the commands used in server-parsed HTML. These commands are embedded in HTML files. The server replaces each command with data determined by the command and its attributes. The commands are "hidden" within HTML comments so they are ignored if not parsed by the server.

The format for a command is:

   <!--#command attribute1="value1" attribute2="value2" ... -->

For more information, see http://www.ssi-developer.net/ssi/

Support for SSI varies widely. Some ISPs only allow SSI commands in files with an ".shtml" extension. Some ISPs prohibit certain commands (particularly #exec). Some ISPs don't allow SSI at all. If you control your own server, you can probably turn SSI support on for all files.

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Friday, 09-May-2008 17:47:41 MDT

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This is HTML code from file ssidemo.html

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This is HTML code from file ssidemo.html

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Wednesday, 19-Jun-2002 00:00:00 MDT

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This is output from a shell script named ssidemo.sh

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This is Perl output from ssidemo.cgi

`<XMP></XMP>`

SERVER_SIGNATURE=<address>Apache/2.0.52 (Red Hat) Server at www.rexswain.com Port 80</address> LD_PRELOAD= HTTP_USER_AGENT=CCBot/1.0 (+http://www.commoncrawl.org/bot.html) SERVER_PORT=80 HTTP_HOST=www.rexswain.com DOCUMENT_ROOT=/var/www/html HTTP_ACCEPT_CHARSET=ISO-8859-1,utf-8;q=0.7,*;q=0.7 SCRIPT_FILENAME=/var/www/html/ssidemo.shtml REQUEST_URI=/ssidemo.shtml USER_NAME= SCRIPT_NAME=/ssidemo.shtml HTTP_CONNECTION=close REMOTE_PORT=48106 PATH=/sbin:/usr/sbin:/bin:/usr/bin:/usr/X11R6/bin PWD=/var/www/html SERVER_ADMIN=Postmaster@rexswain.com HTTP_ACCEPT_LANGUAGE=en-us,en;q=0.5 DATE_GMT= HTTP_ACCEPT=Accept: application/xhtml+xml,text/html;q=0.9,text/plain; DOCUMENT_URI=/ssidemo.shtml DATE_LOCAL=Friday, 09-May-2008 17:47:41 MDT REMOTE_ADDR=38.103.63.16 SHLVL=1 SERVER_NAME=www.rexswain.com LAST_MODIFIED= HTTP_PRAGMA=no-cache DOCUMENT_NAME=ssidemo.shtml SERVER_SOFTWARE=Apache/2.0.52 (Red Hat) QUERY_STRING= SERVER_ADDR=69.36.187.33 GATEWAY_INTERFACE=CGI/1.1 SERVER_PROTOCOL=HTTP/1.1 HTTP_CACHE_CONTROL=no-cache HTTP_ACCEPT_ENCODING=gzip REQUEST_METHOD=GET _=/bin/env SPHERA_monitor=xxxx SPHERA_service=xxxx SPHERA_pIOr=xx SPHERA_pIOw=x SPHERA_pNETr=x SPHERA_pNETw=x SPHERA_config=x

`<XMP></XMP>`

BASH=/bin/sh BASH_ARGC=() BASH_ARGV=() BASH_EXECUTION_STRING=set BASH_LINENO=() BASH_SOURCE=() BASH_VERSINFO=([0]="3" [1]="00" [2]="15" [3]="1" [4]="release" [5]="i386-redhat-linux-gnu") BASH_VERSION='3.00.15(1)-release' DATE_GMT= DATE_LOCAL='Friday, 09-May-2008 17:47:41 MDT' DIRSTACK=() DOCUMENT_NAME=ssidemo.shtml DOCUMENT_ROOT=/var/www/html DOCUMENT_URI=/ssidemo.shtml EUID=2174 GATEWAY_INTERFACE=CGI/1.1 GROUPS=() HOSTNAME=rexswain.com HOSTTYPE=i386 HTTP_ACCEPT='Accept: application/xhtml+xml,text/html;q=0.9,text/plain;' HTTP_ACCEPT_CHARSET='ISO-8859-1,utf-8;q=0.7,*;q=0.7' HTTP_ACCEPT_ENCODING=gzip HTTP_ACCEPT_LANGUAGE='en-us,en;q=0.5' HTTP_CACHE_CONTROL=no-cache HTTP_CONNECTION=close HTTP_HOST=www.rexswain.com HTTP_PRAGMA=no-cache HTTP_USER_AGENT='CCBot/1.0 (+http://www.commoncrawl.org/bot.html)' IFS=' ' LAST_MODIFIED= LD_PRELOAD= MACHTYPE=i386-redhat-linux-gnu OPTERR=1 OPTIND=1 OSTYPE=linux-gnu PATH=/sbin:/usr/sbin:/bin:/usr/bin:/usr/X11R6/bin POSIXLY_CORRECT=y PPID=29954 PS4='+ ' PWD=/var/www/html QUERY_STRING= REMOTE_ADDR=38.103.63.16 REMOTE_PORT=48106 REQUEST_METHOD=GET REQUEST_URI=/ssidemo.shtml SCRIPT_FILENAME=/var/www/html/ssidemo.shtml SCRIPT_NAME=/ssidemo.shtml SERVER_ADDR=69.36.187.33 SERVER_ADMIN=Postmaster@rexswain.com SERVER_NAME=www.rexswain.com SERVER_PORT=80 SERVER_PROTOCOL=HTTP/1.1 SERVER_SIGNATURE='<address>Apache/2.0.52 (Red Hat) Server at www.rexswain.com Port 80</address> ' SERVER_SOFTWARE='Apache/2.0.52 (Red Hat)' SHELL=/ftponly SHELLOPTS=braceexpand:hashall:interactive-comments:posix SHLVL=1 SPHERA_config=x SPHERA_monitor=xxxx SPHERA_pIOr=x SPHERA_pIOw=x SPHERA_pNETr=x SPHERA_pNETw=x SPHERA_service=xxxx TERM=dumb UID=2174 USER_NAME= _=/bin/sh

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