Hiding cgi script name?

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Re: Hiding cgi script name? by cowboy (Friar) on Mar 18, 2005 at 04:56 UTC
It's not necessarily a cgi script, more just the way you tell the webserver to handle the request. In the simplest example, you tell the webserver, to use a certain script as your index file. In the example for perlmonks, it seems there is an index.pl there, which is handling the request by default. http://www.perlmonks.org/index.pl?node=Cowboy is the same as http://www.perlmonks.org/?node=Cowboy Check out the docs on DirectoryIndex	[reply]
Re: Hiding cgi script name? by brian_d_foy (Abbot) on Mar 18, 2005 at 05:12 UTC
URIs don't necessarily map onto file names. You can set your web server to do just about anything given a certain URI. You might have a script run for just about anything, and there are several ways that you can make this happen, such as URI rewriting, default file names, mod_perl handlers, and so on. Along with that, you can add a query string (that stuff after the ?) to any HTTP URI. It doesn't matter if it's a script or regular file. How you actually set it up depends on your webserver, and isn't anything to do with Perl. -- brian d foy <bdfoy@cpan.org>	[reply]
Re: Hiding cgi script name? by merlyn (Sage) on Mar 18, 2005 at 05:56 UTC
Heh. Just answered this very recently. -- Randal L. Schwartz, Perl hacker Be sure to read my standard disclaimer if this is a reply.	[reply]