Mailing List Archive: Re: behaviour change... ["James H. Cloos Jr." ] (fwd)

Re: <limit> behaviour change... ["James H. Cloos Jr." <cloos@JHCloos.COM>] (fwd)

Aug 9, 1995, 9:48 AM

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Date: Wed, 9 Aug 1995 01:36:57 -0500
From: "James H. Cloos Jr." <cloos@JHCloos.COM>
To: new-httpd@hyperreal.com
Subject: Re: <limit> behaviour change...

There is one incompatability I've noticed between 0.8.8 and NCSA 1.4
that is not on the compat_notes.html page.

In an exec cgi="" SSI, NCSA will run the script even if it is not a
ScriptAlias (or under a ScriptAlias directory) or resolves to
application/x-httpd-cgi. Apache, OTOH, treats the cgi="" target as
any HREF="" target.

The counrterord script is a good example of one that breaks. (And the
script needs to be patched so that it will run the ordinal output
function when called as counterord.cgi, for instance.) This broke a
few pages here when we switched over....

-JimC
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James H. Cloos, Jr. Snail: POBox 18122 Austin, TX 78760-8122
cloos@io.com URL: http://www.jhcloos.com/~cloos/

Re: <limit> behaviour change... ["James H. Cloos Jr." <cloos@JHCloos.COM>] (fwd) [ In reply to ]

hartill at ooo

Aug 9, 1995, 11:00 AM

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> There is one incompatability I've noticed between 0.8.8 and NCSA 1.4
> that is not on the compat_notes.html page.

it's in the bug list ;-)

Re: <limit> behaviour change... ["James H. Cloos Jr." <cloos@JHCloos.COM>] (fwd) [ In reply to ]

hartill at ooo

Aug 10, 1995, 9:21 AM

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> From: "James H. Cloos Jr." <cloos@JHCloos.COM>
> To: Rob Hartill <hartill@hyperreal.com>
> Subject: Re: <limit> behaviour change... (fwd)

> Actually, the note in the bug list -- at least the one linked from the
> public homepage -- references a related but different issue.

> The CGIs that our users are trying to call via cgi="" are valid CGI
> scripts, output the propper ehaders and everything. The problem is
> that Apache treats those that are not in a ScriptAlias directory as
> text/plain -- sending the client the src of the script rather than the
> script's intended output -- unless the script's filename types to
> application/x-httpd-cgi.

> As such, the cgi="" SSI in Apache is more of a general include
> virtual="" that will run any URL exactly as if that URL were
> referenced in a A tag's HREF="" field. NCSA, OTOH, attempts to run
> the file no matter what it is called.
>
> -JimC
> --
> James H. Cloos, Jr. Snail: POBox 18122 Austin, TX 78760-8122
> cloos@io.com URL: http://www.jhcloos.com/~cloos/