Re: SCRIPT_NAME & PATH_INFO %ENV variables

[Randy Kobes <suppressed>]

On Wed, 24 Oct 2007, Lev Lvovsky wrote:

> judging by this thread:
>
> http://www.mail-archive.com/suppressed/msg15609.html
>
> This might be an old question but I'm not entirely sure I understand the 
> answer spelled out in the response.
>
> I have the following Location setting in my httpd.conf (via an include file):
> <Location /mod_perl>
> SetHandler perl-script
> PerlResponseHandler mod_perl::Test
> </Location>
>
> hits to various related urls result in the following:
>
> http://localhost/mod_perl/
> SCRIPT_NAME = /mod_perl
> PATH_INFO = /
>
> http://localhost/mod_perl/test1
> SCRIPT_NAME = /mod_perl
> PATH_INFO = /test1
>
> http://localhost/mod_perl/test1/test2
> SCRIPT_NAME = /mod_perl
> PATH_INFO = /test1/test2
>
> when using CGI.pm and the url(relative => 1) method, always results in 
> 'mod_perl', as opposed to the basename (for lack of a better word) in 
> SCRIPT_NAME.
>
> Is there any way to get have the url() method get the SCRIPT_NAME defined by 
> the regex: s|/.*/(.*)|$1| (that may not account for all possibilities, but 
> close enough for an example)

The code in CGI::Apache2::Wrapper:
 http://cpan.uwinnipeg.ca/htdocs/CGI-Apache2-Wrapper/CGI/Apache2/Wrapper.pm.html#Apache2_URI
provides a CGI-compatible url() method based on
Apache2::URI:
  http://cpan.uwinnipeg.ca/htdocs/mod_perl/Apache2/URI.html

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best regards,
Randy Kobes