Re: CGI PATH_TRANSLATED variable?

>Yes, but note that this assumes that all your html documents live in
>one tree. What if that's not the case? In particular, what if your
>server could hand either of /var/web/htdocs/foo.html or
>/var/web/htdocs-new/foo.html if someone tryed to GET
>http://yourserver/foo.html?

What is the decision variable - in any case, use the doc that would have 
been returned had the document request been for http://server/foo.html
instead of being the cgi-script

>> the request using PATHINFO .html would be
>>    http://yourserver/cgi-bin/script/foo.html
>>       PATH_INFO= /foo.html
>>       PATH_TRANSLATED= /var/web/htdocs/foo.html
>
>Should PATH_TRANSLATED be /var/web/{htdocs,htdocs-new}/foo.html for
>the case I've got?

Yes.  

Christian "webhead <*>"

Received on Thursday, 23 March 1995 06:12:12 UTC