WN, $PATH_INFO in CGI scripts, and the Web Standard

[bruce@pixar.com (Bruce Perens)]

I just filed a bug on WN. It does not implement $PATH_INFO in any
sensible manner, although it documents it. It would actually solve all
of the problems we have with making WN work with the Web Standard if that
were fixed.

The way NCSA, Roxen, and others handle $PATH_INFO is that they detect paths
like http://localhost/cgi-bin/foo/bar, and if "foo" is a CGI script, they
execute it with $PATH_INFO=/bar . Please correspond with the WN author
about this.

Under WN you can make any file a CGI script, wherever it lives. Just put

	File=Foo
	Attribute=cgi

in the "index" file. Thus, if $PATH_INFO worked, you could replace any
_path_ with a CGI script.

	Thanks

	Bruce

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