nodejs and xinetd redux

[tedx]

On a much older version of node I'd come up with a solution but that no longer works. For those who don't know xinetd listens for incoming requests over a network and launches the appropriate service for that request. The service communicates with its client by reading from stdin and writing to stdout. I tried:

// Configure our HTTP server to respond with Hello World to all requests.
var server = http.createServer(function (request, response) {
  response.writeHead(200, {"Content-Type": "text/plain"});
  response.end("Hello World\n");
});
// Listen on stdin
server.listen({fd: 0});

but this fails because the connection has already been established by xinetd. Is there a way to set the server connection to stdin and cause the callback to be executed without listening?

Ted

[tedx]

I can emit a 'connection' event but I'm not sure how to setup its argument. I tried:

var s = new net.Socket({fd: 0});

server.emit('connection', s);

but this just hangs maybe because the response needs to be written to stdout but the socket knows nothing about this. Is there a way to create a socket specifying 2 file descriptors? Or maybe there's another way to create a Duplex object from stdin and stdout that I can pass with the connection event?

[tedx]

------------------- /etc/xinetd.d/http ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------

service http

{

type = UNLISTED

disable = no

protocol = tcp

server = /usr/bin/node

server_args = <path to http.js>/http.js

wait = no

instances = 20

socket_type = stream

port = 8000

user = root

}

--------------------------------------------- http.js -------------------------------------------

// Load the http module to create an http server.

var http = require('http');

var net = require('net');

// Configure our HTTP server to respond with Hello World to all requests.

var server = http.createServer(function (request, response) {

response.writeHead(200, {"Content-Type": "text/plain"});

response.end("Hello World\n");

process.stdout.pipe(response);

});

var sin = new net.Socket({fd: 0});

server.emit('connection', sin);

[Artem Zhdanov]

Thank you so much!  Your solution works, and now I can use  nodejs and  xinetd !!!

Artem