The documentation says that using ExtraPathInfo is slower.  Does 
anyone know exactly how much slower it is?  Is it noticeable?

Here's what the docs say:

 > ExtraPathInfo � = 0
 >      When enabled, this setting allows a servlet to be followed
 >      by additional path components which are accessible via
 >      HTTPRequest's extraURLPath(). For subclassers of Page, this
 >      would be self.request().extraURLPath(). This may degrade
 >      performance when turned on.

--Tracy

On Wednesday, May 15, 2002, at 01:02  PM, Sam Brauer wrote:

> On Wed, 15 May 2002, Matt Feifarek wrote:
>
>> | WebKit doesn't really have a good solution for this --
>> | yet.  There is a setting "ExtraPathInfo" which is
>> | supposed to do what you're asking for here.  But last
>> | time I checked, the setting wasn't working :-( and it
>> | hasn't been fixed in the meantime.  I suppose that means
>> | nobody is using it.  Also, ExtraPathInfo is a global
>>
>> I've been experimenting with it. It works fine in 0.7 release.
>>
>> I put this into an awake() method:
>>
>> extra = transaction.request().extraURLPath()
>> if extra:
>>      # if there is one, check how many parts it has
>>      extra = self.extra = extra.split('/')
>>
>> Then you've got either 'None' or a list of strings that correspond 
>> to extra
>> url bits.
>>
>> So, I can do http://localhost/MyContext/foo/bar/baz/8
>>
>> which is actually hitting an index.py that lives in MyContext, and 
>> extra
>> looks like this:
>> ['foo','bar','baz','8']
>
>
> A-ha!  It only seems to work if your servlet is index.py... that's 
> what I
> was missing.
> Thanks a lot!
>


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