Aengus Lawlor wrote:
> On 10/22/99, I wrote:
>
> >On Fri, 22 Oct 1999, Stephen Turner wrote:
> >>
> >>>> On Thu, 21 Oct 1999, Aengus Lawlor wrote: > >
> >>>> The documentation says of CGI ON that "You can't choose any options that
> >>>> way though". This isn't my experience. I just typed in the following URL
> >>>>
> >>
> >>OK, as far as I can see Apache doesn't pass the arguments. Is this IIS
> >>doing this?
> >
> >Yes (IIS3 and IIS4). Isn't it supposed to pass GET parameters like that?
>
> And I realized on my way home that GET parameters are supposed to be passed
> to the Query_String environment variable. I do remember way back in the
> mists of time (IIS 1.0) people were advised to make sure that they only put
> .pl files in their script directories, and to make sure that perl.exe wasn't
> directly addressable from a URL, because you could pass parameters to it.
> It's been a long time, though, and I thought that was fixed in some service
> pack.
>
I believe the reason this is still funcitonal is because on IIS many ActiveX
server controls are DLL files and need parameters sent to them. So the server
takes a url like
/cgi-bin/webapp.dll?parm1=alpha&parm2=234155
and needs to tell the ActiveX control how to read that. My guess is that the
implementation of this support means that as a consequence, the args array of
command line options for an executable run in the cgi-space is loaded with the
get paramters.
--
Jeremy Wadsack
Wadsack-Allen Publishing
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