Documentation Index

The pages below describe various aspects of using CSA. As you can see, the documentation is still incomplete. If you have suggestions, additions, or improvements for the documentation, please feel free to contribute them by editing the relevant pages, and by adding new pages where you think is appropriate.

• Introductory topics
  • Basic application setup
• CSA programming examples
  • Hello World
  • Basic programming examples
  • Real-World examples
• CSA main features
  • Message processing
  • Template processing
  • Output Hook
  • Input Hook
• Data-management issues
  • Data tables
  • Handling concurrency
  • Data integrity
• The CSA name-space
  • Basic naming conventions
  • Environment variables
  • rc functions
  • C-like stuff
  • AWK functions
• HTTP-related topics
  • GET and POST variables
  • Client authentication
  • HTTP Cookies
  • Sample authenticated session
  • File uploads
• URL rewriting (REST mapping)
• Batch scripts^?
• requests and responses in RDF format
  • Embedded RDF responses
  • Embedded RDF requests^?
    • RDF requests with attachments^? (RwA)