On Fri, 4 Aug 1995, Rob Hartill forwarded:
> > >CGI scripts *must* have headers. They're not CGI if they don't
> > >produce a header.
> > >If you want to include output of a script
> > >that doesn't produce headers, you should use exec cmd=""
> >
> > This is not how NCSA's server works, that's why I call it a bug. The problem
> > with using "exec cmd" is that you must know the absolute path to the script,
> > but "exec cgi" allows you to use a virtual path. I can't afford to use
> > absolute paths since the scripts must be portable with no modifications.
So, the solution is obviously to allow "exec cmd" to use relative paths.
That's how #include works too.
> > With NCSA's server, I wrote docs that had "exec cgi" includes imbedded
> > in the middle of a document. Now they don't work with Apache, which
> > advertises itself as a "drop-in replacement". This is not so, and
> > therefore it's a misleading statement.
Hahaha.
> > Either Apache needs to conform to NCSA standards,
[er, bugs]
> > or a mechanism to
> > exec cmds via virtual paths needs to be added.
This is what I'd prefer
> > The former is highly
> > preferable for compatiblity reasons. a "drop-in replacement" should
> > be exactly that.
"...highly preferable because I'm lazy and don't like fixing my bugs."
Sorry, busy Friday. The docs are still in progress. RobT, you can
announce anytime, it'll be a week before the documentation is fully
complete but I'll work on it this weekend. I will have 0.8.7 on
hyperreal and organic before the end of the day.
Brian
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