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Re: extend CGI
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Ari Luotonen)
Tue Oct 4 09:34:33 1994
Date: Tue, 4 Oct 1994 14:28:44 +0100
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From: luotonen@neon.mcom.com (Ari Luotonen)
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> I don't see a variable for that "extra info" that comes
> after the script name in some cases. For example, imagemap has to
> have some reference to which map to use. Now I've argued that we
> should use something other than a slash to delimit the "extra" from
> the path to imagemap, but it doesn't matter. As long as the server
> knows what to do, it can isolate the "extra" and stash it in an
> environment variable. So ... what do we call that variable?
>
> I'm thinking PATH_EXTRA. This is to compliment PATH_INFO,
> PATH_TRANSLATED, and SCRIPT_NAME, none of which (I think) do what
PATH_INFO is exactly what you're asking. The delimiter issue was
argued 'til boredom half a year ago... :-)
Cheers,
--
Ari Luotonen
Mosaic Communications Corp.
650 Castro Street, Suite 500
Mountain View, CA 94041, USA
