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

[Sebastien Aperghis-Tramoni <Sebastien.Aperghis-Tramoni@resus.univ-mrs.fr>]

On Sat, 22 Nov 1997, Chris Nandor wrote:
> At 16.38 11/22/97, Larry Prall wrote:
> >[snap]
> >                "NOTE: The Microsoft Internet Information Server is broken
> >with respect
> >to additional path information.  If you use the Perl DLL library, the IIS
> >server will attempt to execute the additional path information as a Perl
> >script. ..."
> >
> >That's exactly what I saw with both QuidProQuo and NetPresenz. I tried
> >once more with MacHTTP 2.2, and again got the same result.
> 
> All Mac OS servers I know of will not try to parse out CGI from a path, i.e.:
> 
>         http://localhost/cgi-bin/env2.acgi/bfisadbfsdf
> 
> Most Unix servers will treat '/bfisadbfsdf' as extra path information, and
> send it as environmental information to the CGI.  But Mac servers will look
> for a file called ':cgi-bin:env2.acgi:bfisadbfsdf'.
> 
> >It's hard for me to believe that all of the Mac Web servers are "broken
> >with respect to additional path information"; am I missing something? Has
> >anyone ever successfully used additional path information with CGI.pm and
> >MacPerl with QPQ, NetPresenz or MacHTTP?
> 
> If I were you, I would simply make it a parameter:
> 
>         http://localhost/cgi-bin/env2.acgi?path=/bfisadbfsdf
> 

mm.. AFAIK, Mac Web servers actually parses the extrapath information. 
I remember that in MacHTTP 2.2 documentation, there was something that 
explain that. If 

    http://localhost/cgi-bin/mycgi.cgi/blah 

will make the server search for the file ":cgi-bin:mycgi.cgi:blah", the 
following will work as expected

    http://localhost/cgi-bin/mycgi.cgi$blah

Under MacHTTP, I gave "blah" in the PATH_INFO parameter (or whatever its 
name). I didn't tried it with Quid Pro Quo, but I think that most Mac 
webservers expect a $ to indicate the beginning of the path info. 

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