Re: [MacPerl] CGI "additional path information" (off-topic)

[Matthias Ulrich Neeracher <neeri@iis.ee.ethz.ch>]

pudge@pobox.com (Chris Nandor) writes:
>At 16.38 11/22/97, Larry Prall wrote:
>>Everything went well (slowly, but well) through the stuff in the Spring
>>1996 issue, but when I got to the article in the next issue ("Saving
>>State with CGI.pm") I ran into a problem. The technique used in the
>>article requires using the "additional path information" part of the URL
>
>All Mac OS servers I know of will not try to parse out CGI from a path

Correct.

>>It's hard for me to believe that all of the Mac Web servers are "broken
>>with respect to additional path information"

>If I were you, I would simply make it a parameter:
>
>        http://localhost/cgi-bin/env2.acgi?path=/bfisadbfsdf

Alternatively, use a '$' sign to separate the "addditional path information"
from the CGI, this is, in fact, what MacHTTP and WebStar introduced (and, I
suppose, what the other Mac servers do, too).

Matthias

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