Bug#32263: Proposal: Splitting cgi-bin

[Anthony Towns <aj@azure.humbug.org.au>]

On Fri, Nov 03, 2000 at 12:20:53AM -0500, Brian White wrote:
> --- policy.sgml.orig	Fri Nov  3 00:02:17 2000
> +++ policy.sgml	Fri Nov  3 00:18:45 2000
> @@ -2949,9 +2949,20 @@
>  		</example>
>  		and can be referred to as
>  		<example>
> -		  http://localhost/cgi-bin/&lt;cgi-bin-name&gt;
> -		</example></p></item>
> +		  http://localhost/cgi-lib/&lt;cgi-bin-name&gt;
> +		</example></p>
>  		
> +	      <p>The purpose of using <tt>cgi-lib</tt> instead of
> +	      <tt>cgi-bin</tt> is that most webmasters are used to having
> +	      <tt>cgi-bin</tt> available for their own local use, much like
> +	      <tt>/usr/local</tt>.  Having packages use <tt>cgi-lib</tt>
> +	      means that no changes need to be made by the webmaster to both
> +	      keep what they are used to and still have access to Debian
> +	      packages.</p>
> +
> +	      <p>Web servers should include <tt>/cgi-lib/</tt> as a standard
> +	      ScriptAlias of <tt>/usr/lib/cgi-bin/</tt>.</p></item>
> +
>  		
>  	    <item><p>Access to html documents</p>

Seconded, then.

Cheers,
aj

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