/ instead of ?

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Re: / instead of ? by arturo (Vicar) on Apr 26, 2001 at 16:37 UTC
What I think you may be looking for() is `PATH_INFO`, which is a value that your webserver will pass to a script when that script is the last thing the server can find ON the path, but not at the end of the path. An example might make this clearer: Suppose I have a script called `test.pl` in my cgi-bin directory. Now suppose the server gets a request for /cgi-bin/test.pl/some/extra/stuff There is no file at the end of that path, so it backs up until it finds something that does* exist, namely test.pl, and passes all the "extra" stuff to that as PATH_INFO, i.e. `$ENV{PATH_INFO}` is set to /some/extra/stuff Does that help? * OK, I'm sure merlyn's written an article about this that will tell you more than I just have, and I'm reasonably confident he'll give you the URL once he sees your node =) But this should get you started.	[reply] [d/l] [select]
Re: / instead of ? by snowcrash (Friar) on Apr 26, 2001 at 16:34 UTC
look for path_info() in perldoc CGI. Also check out Merlyn's column on that one. cheers snowcrash //////	[reply]
Re: / instead of ? by zigster (Hermit) on Apr 26, 2001 at 16:20 UTC
The ?'s are part of the http protocol your webserver is interpretting them correctly. Maybe if you explain the problem behind the problem we could help futher. Why do you want to do this? -- Zigster	[reply]
Re: / instead of ? by diarmuid (Beadle) on Apr 26, 2001 at 17:19 UTC
could you post the relevant section of your code	[reply]
Closure: / instead of ? by Sinister (Friar) on Apr 26, 2001 at 17:40 UTC
Hear, hear! All is well. Made a bl##dy mistake in one of the regexxes... problem solved... *Sinister greetings.*	[reply]

Hear, hear!