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Date: Sun, 07 Jun 1998 12:19:12 +0100
From: Ben Laurie <ben@algroup.co.uk>
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Doug MacEachern wrote:
> 
> "Jeffrey W. Baker" <jwb@tamu.edu> wrote:
> 
> > At 08:56 PM 6/3/98 -0700, you wrote:
> >
> > >We're looking not to hold session-type data in the path info.  Our need is
> > >totally separate from the need for holding session information.  Rather, our
> > >need is to encode more literal path-style information, where there are many
> > >'areas' within a single 'directory' handled by Perl*Handler (in this case,
> > >/uptime).
> > >
> > >  /uptime/UPT::Contact/23443/edit
> > >  /uptime/UPT::Client/987/add_new_Job
> > >  /uptime/UPT::Job_Item/42333/4/edit
> > >
> > >(perhaps with session id's added to those paths too!)
> > >
> > >These allow access to a database, with primary key values and desired output
> > >formats being specified in that path information.
> >
> > Also note that path_info functionality on Win32 Apache is severly broken.
> > In 1.3b5/6, a trailing slash or a double slash in the path info is stripped
> > out when calling $r->path_info, but not when calling $r->uri, so acquiring
> > the true URI via length($r->path_info) doesn't work.  On 1.3b7, any slash
> > in the path info causes a 404 Not Found error.  I filed a bug but I guess I
> > should have marked it as critical, as I haven't heard back from anybody.
> 
> I'm not sure what's going on here, but CHANGES for 1.3b6 has this:
> 
>   *) WIN32: Preserve trailing slash in canonical path (and hence
>            in PATH_INFO). [Paul Sutton, Ben Laurie]
> 
> CC'd to new-httpd, maybe Paul or Ben could shed some light?

The short answer is that path info does seem to be screwed by filename
canonicalisation. I believe someone is working on it.

Cheers,

Ben.

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