[8350] in www-talk@info.cern.ch
Re: page reloads
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Kee Hinckley)
Sat Jun 3 23:54:34 1995
Date: Thu, 1 Jun 1995 13:58:21 +0500
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Reply-To: nazgul@utopia.com
From: nazgul@utopia.com (Kee Hinckley)
To: Multiple recipients of list <www-talk@www10.w3.org>
At 4:49 AM 6/1/95, Jon Knight wrote:
>Some people have pointed out that the CGI script might not know where the
>document to be loaded is located which is possible but unlikely, mainly
>because it would have to know where it is to issue the HTTP redirect.
Not true. I can determine the URL of the document either by passing it from
the form to the script, or because I know what it's going to be ahead of
time. The physical location of the document however is not possible to
assertain portably from one site from another. As far as I can tell, even
DOCUMENT_ROOT doesn't work if you are using aliases to point out of the
source tree. The root directory of my particular web site is the one thing
I have to hard code in a script config file as I move a site from a staging
area to the final location. Maybe the cern server has a working solution
to this, but I can't find one under NCSA 1.3 or Apache.
Kee Hinckley Utopia Inc. - Cyberspace Architects=81 617/721-6100
nazgul@utopia.com http://www.utopia.com/
I'm not sure which upsets me more: that people are so unwilling to accept
responsibility for their own actions, or that they are so eager to regulate
everyone else's.
