Bug#737730: debian-policy: Minor rewrite for CGI program paths in "11.5 Web servers and applications"

[Olivier Berger <olivier.berger@telecom-sudparis.eu>]

Salut.

Bill Allombert <ballombe@debian.org> writes:

> On Mon, Feb 10, 2014 at 10:32:32AM +0100, Olivier Berger wrote:
>> Hi.
>> 
>> >> 1.  Cgi-bin executable files are installed in the directory /usr/lib/cgi-bin/ or a subdirectory of that directory, so that, typically
>> >> 
>> >>          /usr/lib/cgi-bin/cgi-bin-name
>> >> 
>> >>     should be referred to as
>> >> 
>> >>          http://localhost/cgi-bin/cgi-bin-name
>> >> 
>> >>     (possibly with a subdirectory name before cgi-bin-name).
>> >> 
>> 
>> I don't know, as I'm not an english native speaker. That weakening
>> wasn't intended. Feel free to improve ;)
>
> I suggest the following:
>
>      1.   Cgi-bin executable files are installed in the directory
>                /usr/lib/cgi-bin
>           or a subdirectory of that directory, and the script
>                /usr/lib/cgi-bin/.../<cgi-bin-name>
>           should be referred to as
>                http://localhost/cgi-bin/.../<cgi-bin-name>
>

As you see fit :-)

Thanks.

Best regards,
-- 
Olivier BERGER 
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Ingenieur Recherche - Dept INF
Institut Mines-Telecom, Telecom SudParis, Evry (France)