Re: [cgiapp] problem with PATH_INFO not being recognized

[Sean Davis <suppressed>]

Punkish,

Sorry about that.  Version issue.  The anonymous array I missed, also.  
Again, sorry.  Thanks for the pointers.

Sean

On Dec 9, 2004, at 11:10 AM, punkish wrote:

> On Thu, 9 Dec 2004 06:33:12 -0500, Sean Davis <suppressed> 
> wrote:
> > 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
>
> no Sean. You are likely confusing QUERY_STRING with PATH_INFO (these
> are the cgi environment variables that populate the ENV hash).
>
> PATH_INFO refers to the portion _after_ the immutable part of the URI.
>
> so, the non-changing part of my URI is ../index.cgi and everything
> after that becomes PATH_INFO.
>
> > 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');
>
> C-A 3.31 provides a shortcut to grab PATH_INFO by setting
> mode_param(path_info => 1)
>
> > And run_modes takes a hash of mode names and associated subroutines to
> > call like:
> >
> > $self->run_modes(
> >      'welcome' => 'welcome',
> >      'login'   => 'login',
> > ....
> > )
>
> yes, but you can also provide runmodes as an anon array as long as the
> runmodes themselves are named exactly as the calls they are gonna
> make.
>
> so the above can be shortened to run_modes([qw/welcome login/])
>
> Thanks anyway.
>
> > 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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> punkish


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