Hey all, i have not so much as Perl related question, but more like CGI-stuff, and i would appreciate any wisdom about this.

I did a short script to parse 'PATH_INFO' variable, this script is used inside .shtml page with SSI. My pages now include links like '/index.shtml/id/335/' and so on. This works fine, if i run the script directly like '/cgi-bin/index.pl/id/335/', but if i try that former '/index.shtml/id/335/', my www-server just shows that index.shtml page, the index.pl script that is being called with SSI does not get the $ENV{'PATH_INFO'} variable.

Why is that so, is there any way to win this? It was a pleasant few hours already doing that perl-code, but now i would like to get this actually finished :)

Code parsing the PATH_INFO is shown below: (some finnish words inside blocks, but main logic should be clear) 
#!/usr/bin/perl -w

use strict;

my $path = $ENV{'PATH_INFO'};
# omit the first '/' sign
$path =~ s/^[\/](.*)/$1/;

# read string like 'id/995/kk/2004-05/r/5' to @array
my @keys = split /\//, $path;

my %avain = ();
my $i = 0;

print "Content-type: text/html \n\n";
# let's go through all the indexes that split made
while ($i <= $#keys) {

    # assign key-value pairs
    $avain{$keys[$i]} = $keys[($i+1)];
    $i = $i+2;
}
# for debugging purposes
while (my ($key, $value) = each (%avain)) {


    next unless $value;
    print "<p>$key = $value</p>\n";
}

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In reply to About PATH_INFO and SSI by mellin

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