Seeking Help...

[Andrew <an...@aaaaaaaa.demon.co.uk>]

Hi Richard,

	Apache's coding expicitly disallows embedded cgi references
of the form:

	<!--#exec cgi="/cgi-bin/foo?some-args" -->     

this is almost certainly in accordance with the 'established' NCSA
1.3 CGI behaviour upon which Apache tries to model itself.  Already
this month mention has been made on the new-httpd list that this
strictness could be relaxed in the future.  But to date the 1.0.3
code has not been amended.  Future versions of Apache (1.1b0 and
beyond) *might* change this.

For the time being, the answer is "nope, you just can't do this";
or to quote from mod_include.c, around line 327:

    /* No hardwired path info or query allowed */
    if ((rr->path_info && rr->path_info[0]) || rr->args) return -1;

Cheers,
Ay.
Andrew.Wilson@cm.cf.ac.uk http://www.cm.cf.ac.uk/User/Andrew.Wilson/

Re: Seeking Help...

[Richard Freilich <rf...@vertex.tor.hookup.net>]

On Wed, 21 Feb 1996, Andrew wrote:

> Hi Richard,
> 
> 	Apache's coding expicitly disallows embedded cgi references
> of the form:
> 
> 	<!--#exec cgi="/cgi-bin/foo?some-args" -->     
> 
> this is almost certainly in accordance with the 'established' NCSA
> 1.3 CGI behaviour upon which Apache tries to model itself.  Already
> this month mention has been made on the new-httpd list that this
> strictness could be relaxed in the future.  But to date the 1.0.3
> code has not been amended.  Future versions of Apache (1.1b0 and
> beyond) *might* change this.

Looks like a different shell script for each option, calling the CGI with 
the different command line arguments. :)

Richard