Re: CGI/1.0: last call (fwd)

decoux@moulon.inra.fr (ts)
Date: Sun, 5 Dec 93 16:19:57 +0100
From: decoux@moulon.inra.fr (ts)
Message-id: <9312051519.AA16088@moulon.moulon.inra.fr>
To: neuss@igd.fhg.de
Subject: Re: CGI/1.0: last call (fwd)
Cc: www-talk@nxoc01.cern.ch
> Uhm.. I must be overlooking something.. as far as I have understood it, 
> 
> issuing an ISINDEX query will result in a URL like 
> 
>   "http://server.some.where/oldpath/oldfile?word",
> where oldpath/file points to the document that the query was issued from,
> while a form request will point to a virtual file in the /htbin dir.
> 
> Isn't that the easiest way to find whether it was a FROM request or an
> ISINDEX query?
> 

 If for the browser , URL is :

   http://server/htbin/script/pathname

 With ISINDEX the URL is always "http://server/htbin/script/pathname?aaa"


Guy Decoux