It's accessing another file by referring to itself as a directory, eg.
http://www.*-*-*.com/

Smiley> How can a Perl CGI script act like a directory?  I've looked through
Smiley> my textbooks, but haven't found any reference to this - yet that's
Smiley> just what a script I've downloaded seems to be doing.

Smiley> It's accessing another file by referring to itself as a directory, eg.
Smiley> http://www.myserver.com/cgi-bin/myscript.cgi/thisdocument.doc

Smiley> I'm very confused, can somebody give me an idea of what's going on?

First, "comp.lang.perl" is no longer an authorized group. If your
server carries it, they are in error.

Second, look at any Perl CGI text that talks about $ENV{PATH_INFO}.  You'll
see that your CGI script can be treated like a directory, and any path
following the directory is included in the environment variable.  In
particular, search google for:

        site:stonehenge.com $ENV{PATH_INFO}

and you'll see the columns that I've written that talk about it.

Hope that helps.  And tell your news admin that comp.lang.perl
has been dead since 1995, by consensus decree.

print "Just another Perl hacker,"

  Other newsgroups also removed -- I avoid crossposting.

  This is OT in clpm, and belongs in ciwac. Followups set.
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On Wed, 28 Nov 2001 23:20:45 GMT, Smiley said:

Depending on your web server, the myscript.cgi script will find this
information (ie, /thisdocument.doc ) in the PATH_INFO environment
variable, though better, via the path_info() CGI method.

For reference, you might want to look at:

   http://hoohoo.ncsa.uiuc.edu/cgi

HTH,

It's no different to script.cgi?this.filename really... all it does is uses
$ENV{'PATH_INFO'}
 instead of $ENV{'QUERY_STRING'}

A more useful approach is to make the script the directory index, then you
can do this:
www.mysite.com/?this.filename

In the above example, script.cgi is the directory index, so you don't need
to put the filename in..
I do this quite a lot..  makes it harder for someone to hack your script if
they don't know what it's called...
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Regards,
Chris

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*Plonk*

He just likes to make himself look big and thinks he's the world's greatest
programmer...

I don't have a problem with him as such, just his general attitude towards
methods of learning..

Someone new posts a question, he sends them straight to perldoc, whereas I
prefer to give them some brief assistance, THEN suggest that further
information can be found at perldoc...

I am not saying that his methods are wrong, far from it..
But what I am saying is there are more friendly ways of putting his
expertise across than to snap at and flame me every chance he gets..

Quite frankly though, if he stops critising me, I don't care what he thinks
of my methods and whatever else, so long as he's out of my hair...

As I was informed, if you post to Usenet, you are asking for the opinion of
others.. those were his words actually..

So I'm just expressing my right to an opinion and the right to free speech..

If you want to discuss ignorance, let's do...

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Regards,
Chris

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I hope you're seeing a pattern here...

By insulting regular posters you're only making matters worse for the
rest of us.  This is one reason that Larry Wall (amongst other perl
gurus) no longer graces these newsgroups.

Cheers

[I'm snipping extraneous groups here...]

On Nov 29, Helgi Briem inscribed on the eternal scroll:

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