Shahms King wrote:
> I agree that messing with SCRIPT_NAME and PATH_INFO is unpleasant and
> I'd like a better solution, I'm just not sure one is possible given
> current mod_python and Apache.

Attached are my functions for deriving from REQUEST_URI.  They seem
simple enough, but perhaps the output is different than what you need.

-John


--
http://giftfile.org/  ::  giftfile project

def get_script_name(request):
    """Return script name as given in original URI

    The SCRIPT_NAME CGI variable becomes useless when URL rewriting is used,
    because it contains the script name resulting from the server's internal
    redirect.  As a workaround, this function makes use of a CGI variable
    called REQUEST_URI to compute the real requested script name.  REQUEST_URI
    is not part of CGI/1.1, so if it doesn't exist we fall back to SCRIPT_NAME.

    The script name is formed by removing the path info and optional query from
    the tail of the request URI.  So given "http://example.net/script/foo?bar",
    we have:

        REQUEST_URI     /script/foo?bar
        PATH_INFO       /foo
        QUERY_STRING    bar

    and the result will be "/script".
    """

    request_uri = request.get_header('REQUEST_URI')
    if request_uri:
        path_info = request.get_header('PATH_INFO')
        query_string = request.get_header('QUERY_STRING')
        if query_string == '':
            tail = path_info
        else:
            tail = '%s?%s' % (path_info, query_string)
        return request_uri[:-len(tail)]
    else:
        return request.get_header('SCRIPT_NAME')

def get_path(request):
    """Return path as given in original URI"""

    request_uri = request.get_header('REQUEST_URI')
    if request_uri:
        query_string = request.get_header('QUERY_STRING')
        if query_string == '':
            return request_uri
        else:
            return request_uri[:-(len(query_string)+1)]
    else:
        return request.get_path()