The following reply was made to PR mod_include/382; it has been noted by GNATS.
From: Dean Gaudet <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: Marc Evans <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: mod_include/382: exec cgi not fully implemented?
Date: Sun, 13 Apr 1997 18:01:15 -0700 (PDT)
I think we recommend the use of <!--#include
virtual="/cgi-bin/random/random/debug.cnf" --> in this case... can you
give it a try?
Thanks
Dean
On Sun, 13 Apr 1997, Marc Evans wrote:
>
> >Number: 382
> >Category: mod_include
> >Synopsis: exec cgi not fully implemented?
> >Confidential: no
> >Severity: serious
> >Priority: medium
> >Responsible: apache (Apache HTTP Project)
> >State: open
> >Class: sw-bug
> >Submitter-Id: apache
> >Arrival-Date: Sun Apr 13 16:00:01 1997
> >Originator: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> >Organization:
> apache
> >Release: 1.2b8
> >Environment:
> DEC Alpha, v3.2G OSF/1
> >Description:
> The following construct is not properly handled by mod_include.c
>
> <!--#exec cgi="/cgi-bin/random/random/debug.cnf"-->
>
> Specifically, the program /cgi-bin/random is a perl script which
> expects $ENV{PATH_TRANSLATED} to be set to "/some/directory/random/debug.cnf"
> which is not occuring. This same behavior was observed in the NCSA
> server(s), for which we posted the patch
>
> ftp://www.destek.net/pub/ncsa-ssi.diff
>
> several months ago. This seems to be a general problem in that the
> Apache code doesn't appear to permit arguments in a SSI command in the
> same fashion as they would be if the URL were requested directly.
> >How-To-Repeat:
> http://www.destek.net/Doc/CGI/random/ provides samples of the
> problem, though the CGI application has never been made public,
> though I bet you can guess what it looks like...
> >Fix:
> Analyze the referenced diff for the NCSA code and find a mechanism
> to handle requests in a similar manner, if this is the same bug..
> >Audit-Trail:
> >Unformatted:
>
>
>
