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Re: extend CGI

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Ari Luotonen)
Tue Oct 4 22:11:21 1994

Date: Wed, 5 Oct 1994 03:07:54 +0100
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From: luotonen@neon.mcom.com (Ari Luotonen)
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>         So let me get this straight:  PATH_INFO  is that "extra"
> information after the server has removed the path to the script?
> In other words,  in
> 
>                 http://server.domain/htbin/somthing/extra?search
> 
>         it would be set to  "extra".   Is that right?

Yep, except that the slash is included in it, so it's /extra
PATH_TRANSLATED is the result of translating that as if client had
asked for it, so it might be /some/directory/foo/bar/extra

Cheers,
--
Ari Luotonen
Mosaic Communications Corp.
650 Castro Street, Suite 500
Mountain View, CA 94041, USA



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