HTTP Script Executor

A simple HTTP server to execute scripts.

Usecase

Executing a script on a remote instance by issuing a HTTP request. This eliminates the need to configure SSH.

Config

A sample config can be seen in config.sample.toml.

addr = "127.0.0.1:7777"
script_folder = "./"

• addr is the address to bind to.
• script_folder is the folder where the server searches for the given script.

API

A script can be executed by POST call to http://addr/scriptname and the arguments for the script can be given as a json array.

Example

To execute a test.sh script with a, b as arguments, this is the curl call.

curl --request POST \
  --url http://127.1:7777/test.sh \
  --header 'content-type: application/json' \
  --data '["a", "b"]'

• If the script is successfully executed, this returns a 200 with combined output of stdout, stderr.
• If there's an error executing the script, 500 is returned with the error.
• If the server is not able to find the script in the given scripts_dir, 404 is returned.