On Jan 7, 2008 12:23 AM, Sander Temme <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Jan 6, 2008, at 9:07 PM, Robinson Craig wrote: > > > http://www.nrw.qld.gov.au/vegetation/index.html/templates/headline_temp > > . > > php > > > > I get the weirdest thing....I actually get a response as if what I was > > really requesting was: > > > > http://www.nrw.qld.gov.au/vegetation/index.html > > > > In the htdocs directory structure, /vegetation/index.html is a file > > not > > a dir, and there definitely isn't a > > /vegetation/index.html/templates/headline_temp.php file. > > What you'll find is that the remaining part of the URL ('/templates/ > headline_temp.php') is passed to the request as pathinfo. A static > file (like index.html) can typically not do a whole lot with that > information, but a program like a CGI or PHP script can... try making > test-cgi in your cgi-bin directory executable and calling > http://yourserver/cgi-bin/test-cgi/foo/bar > . You'll see the CGI get executed, and an environment variable > PATH_INFO is passed in with the /foo/bar bit. > > I guess the canonical question is: what is your intention when you > request the original URL?
Two further points of interest: This only happens if the target file is capable of doing something with the PATH_INFO, so you likely have index.html getting processed by php or ssi. Turning that off would result in a 404 to the browser. Also, if you were using a more modern version of Apache, you would have the AcceptPathInfo directive available to modify this behavior. Joshua. --------------------------------------------------------------------- The official User-To-User support forum of the Apache HTTP Server Project. See <URL:http://httpd.apache.org/userslist.html> for more info. To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] " from the digest: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
