Re: CGI/1.0: last call
robm@ncsa.uiuc.edu (Rob McCool)
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From: robm@ncsa.uiuc.edu (Rob McCool)
Date: Sat, 4 Dec 1993 19:58:17 -0600
In-Reply-To: luotonen@ptsun00.cern.ch (Ari Luotonen)
"Re: CGI/1.0: last call" (Dec 4, 3:46pm)
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To: luotonen@ptsun00.cern.ch (Ari Luotonen)
Subject: Re: CGI/1.0: last call
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* Re: CGI/1.0: last call by Ari Luotonen (luotonen@ptsun00.cern.ch)
* written on Dec 4, 3:46pm.
*
*
* As for Location:, if the returned URL is not full, but has a #label
* in the end, the server either has to do a redirection anyway, or
* you'll have to mark this as illegal.
Good point. Since there may also be ? in the path, I think we should require
that people use a full URL if they want to send a # or ? in the file name.
* Could you give me an example of PATH_INFO, PATH_TRANSLATED and
* SCRIPT_NAME, if I have a request:
*
* /htbin/script/foo/bar?a=b&c=d
*
* I didn't fully understand them... Thanks!
*/
I'll add examples to make things clearer. Anyway, to answer this particular
example, assume that you're using NCSA httpd and DocumentRoot is
/document_root, and that /htbin/script is the actual script to be executed.
PATH_INFO=/foo/bar
PATH_TRANSLATED=/document_root/foo/bar
SCRIPT_NAME=/htbin/script
To elaborate on PATH_TRANSLATED: This is the physical file that the server
would return if the client requested /foo/bar. For some servers, this may be
the same as PATH_INFO.
I'll add a complete example.
--Rob