Sections that will be covered in the exam have headings that look like this.
<!--#echo var="LAST_MODIFIED"-->
<!--#echo var="DOCUMENT_NAME"-->
<!--#echo var="DOCUMENT_URI"-->
<!--#echo var="DATE_GMT"-->
<!--#echo var="DATE_LOCAL"-->
<!--#echo var="HTTP_USER_AGENT"-->
<!--#echo var="HTTP_HOST"-->
<!--#echo var="SERVER_NAME"-->
<!--#echo var="HTTP_ACCEPT"-->
<!--#echo
var="HTTP_ACCEPT_LANGUAGE"-->
It is possible to create a local variable inside a file that uses SSI commands.
<!--#set var="fiu" value="www.fiu.edu" -->
<!--#echo var="fiu" -->
For a list of the time formatting codes, visit this site: http://internetconnection.net/support/tech-ssitime.html
Change the last modified date to m/d/y, the decimal number day of the year,
and am/pm
<!--#config timefmt="%A %D (day %j) at %r" -->
Change the file size to bytes
<!--#config sizefmt="bytes" -->
Include the output of a cgi script.
The cgi parameter is relative to the document root of the server.
<!--#exec cgi="/~downeyt/cgi-bin/test.cgi" -->
Hello from test.cgi
<!--#exec cmd="/netdepot/J2SE-1.6/bin/java -cp /home/bear-008/users/downeyt/public/server/data/java SayHello" -->
Including the output of a Unix command.
The cmd parameter is an absolute file system path.
<!--#exec cmd="/usr/bin/date"-->
SSILegacyExprParser on.
It is possible to use an if statment with SSI files. The conditional directives are if, elif, else, endif. It is also possible to do pattern matching using /pattern/. Here is an example that tests if this file was last modified on a weekday
<!--#if expr="${LAST_MODIFIED} = /Sat/" -->
<p>Not modified on a weekday; modified on Saturday
<!--#elif expr="${LAST_MODIFIED} = /Sun/" -->
<p>Not modified on a weekday; modified on Sunday
<!--#else -->
<p>Modified on a weekday
<!--#endif -->
Modified on a weekday
<!--#if expr="${LAST_MODIFIED} = /Sat/" -->
<!--#set var="LAST_MODIFIED" value="Monday" -->
<!--#elif expr="${LAST_MODIFIED} = /Sun/" -->
<!--#set var="LAST_MODIFIED" value="Monday" -->
<!--#else -->
<!--#set var="LAST_MODIFIED" value="Sunday" -->
<!--#endif -->
<!--#if expr="${LAST_MODIFIED} = /Sat/" -->
<p>Not modified on a weekday; modified on Saturday
<!--#elif expr="${LAST_MODIFIED} = /Sun/" -->
<p>Not modified on a weekday; modified on Sunday
<!--#else -->
<p>Modified on a weekday
<!--#endif -->
Not modified on a weekday; modified on Sunday
<!--#printenv -->
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