[7699] in www-talk@info.cern.ch
Re: CGI PATH_TRANSLATED variable?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Christian Mogensen)
Thu Mar 23 06:45:27 1995
Date: Thu, 23 Mar 1995 06:43:38 +0500
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Reply-To: mogens@cs.stanford.edu
From: Christian Mogensen <mogens@cs.stanford.edu>
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>Yes, but note that this assumes that all your html documents live in
>one tree. What if that's not the case? In particular, what if your
>server could hand either of /var/web/htdocs/foo.html or
>/var/web/htdocs-new/foo.html if someone tryed to GET
>http://yourserver/foo.html?
What is the decision variable - in any case, use the doc that would have
been returned had the document request been for http://server/foo.html
instead of being the cgi-script
>> the request using PATHINFO .html would be
>> http://yourserver/cgi-bin/script/foo.html
>> PATH_INFO= /foo.html
>> PATH_TRANSLATED= /var/web/htdocs/foo.html
>
>Should PATH_TRANSLATED be /var/web/{htdocs,htdocs-new}/foo.html for
>the case I've got?
Yes.
Christian "webhead <*>"
