On Tuesday 10 June 2003 6:27 pm, Neil Schemenauer wrote:
> On Tue, Jun 10, 2003 at 06:19:57PM -0400, Mark Bucciarelli wrote:
> > get_path() returns a double--form_demo/form_demo.  I think this
> > is a problem with how the native Python web server is parsing the
> > CGI variables--both the script name and the path are the same.
>
> That's not right.  The full path should be SCRIPT_NAME + PATH_INFO.

It is indeed server.py.  Just for the record (and for a bit of peer
review ...)

the PATH_INFO cgi variable is the stuff in the URL that comes after
the script name and before the question mark.

For example, the URL
        /cgi-bin/myscript.cgi/some/more/path/info
breaks out into
        SCRIPT_PATH     = /cgi-bin/myscript.cgi
        PATH_INFO       = /some/more/path/info

The idea was that you could pass context into your cgi script.

Now, with Quixote, isn't everything a script?  I mean, shouldn't
PATH_INFO always be empty?

BTW, this really was a bit of an archeological excursion.  While
researching, I turned up phrases like:

        For example, say you want to reference a file on your Gopher server.

and

        This string will usually be an information query, i.e. what the user
        wants to search for in the archie databases

Cheers,

Mark