[10642] in www-talk@info.cern.ch
Re: Using $ for CGI script arguments?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Andrew Daviel)
Wed Feb 26 18:11:33 1997
Date: Wed, 26 Feb 1997 14:56:29 -0800 (PST)
From: Andrew Daviel <andrew@andrew.triumf.ca>
Reply-To: advax@triumf.ca
To: Francois Pottier <Francois.Pottier@inria.fr>
Cc: www-talk@w3.org
In-Reply-To: <m0vwnVG-0008KJC@sleepy.greenie.muc.de>
Resent-From: www-talk@w3.org
On Tue, 18 Feb 1997, Simone Demmel wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Francois Pottier wrote:
> [...]
> > RFC 2068 (the HTTP/1.1 standard) says that at the end of the path, we
> [...]
> > http://myserver.mydomain/pathsegment/scriptname;args?query
> [..but..]
> > http://myserver.mydomain/pathsegment/scriptname$args?query
> [...]
> > So, my question is, what's the consensus? What are the respective
> > roles of the semicolon and of the dollar signs? Can they be used
> > interchangeably, or do they have different meanings? Should my parser
> > look out for both of them, and if so, in what order? etc.
>
> Good question, here are some more Possibilities:
> http://myserver.mydomain/path/info.html#5 (<a name>-Links in html-Files)
> http://myserver.mydomain/pathsegment/scriptname?arg1=x&arg2=y
>
In Apache, NCSA httpd etc. (HTTP1.0)
sending an HTML form with action = http://some.org/cgi-bin/script/path
and two fields named P1, P2 filled with values value1, value2 will
generate a URL
http://some.org/cgi-bin/script/path?P1=value1&P2=value2
which inside the script "script" will have the environment variables
PATH_INFO = "/path"
QUERY_STRING = "P1=value1&P2=value2"
SCRIPT_FILENAME = "/usr/local/etc/httpd/cgi-bin/script"
and the script command-line argument also set to P1=value1&P2=value2
When I tried sending a query with a "#" in, that and later characters were
stripped off.
Apache 1.1 on Unix treats ";" and "$" as part of the script filename.
I haven't tried 1.2 (HTTP/1.1) yet.
BTW, "~" though illegal is used on Unix for personal homepages, and ","
is generated from server-side imagemaps
Andrew
http://Vancouver-Webpages.com
