Re: [cgiapp] problem with PATH_INFO not being recognized

[Sean Davis <suppressed>]

Punkish,

path_info is going to be interpreted as a cgi parameter, so if you want 
to feed the path_info parameter to your script, you need to do it as a 
parameter.  In practice, that means:

http:://localhost/~user/myapp/index.cgi?path_info=welcome

For directing traffic (moving from one page to the next), you will have 
to provide path_info parameter in some manner.

Also, I think mode_param takes a single string like:

$self->mode_param('path_info');

And run_modes takes a hash of mode names and associated subroutines to 
call like:

$self->run_modes(
    'welcome' => 'welcome',
    'login'   => 'login',
....
)

I the stuff above is correct, but someone can correct me if I'm wrong 
on this.  If you really need to "dispatch" from the path info like you 
show below, you could look as CGI::Application::dispatch.

Sean



On Dec 9, 2004, at 1:40 AM, punkish wrote:

> caution: extreme CGI-App n00b here.
>
> My url is thus
>
> http://localhost/~user/myapp/index.cgi
>
> my extremely simple script is
>
> sub setup {
> 	my $self = shift;
> 	$self->start_mode('welcome');
> 	$self->mode_param(path_info => 1);
> 	$self->run_modes([qw(welcome login verify about)]);
> 	$self->tmpl_path('templates/');
> }
>
> sub welcome { blah }
> sub login { blah }
> ..
>
> the PATH_INFO is not being handled correctly as the run_mode keeps on
> defaulting to 'welcome' no matter what path_info I provide after
> index.cgi. Even if it is ..index.cgi/login or ..index.cgi/about, I see
> only 'welcome' almost as if no path_info was provided.
>
> Please tell me what obviously stupid thing I am doing wrong so I may
> not tear out my remaining hair.
>
> Many thanks in advance for your patience and kindness.
>
> --
>
> punkish
>
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