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Posted to dev@httpd.apache.org by Paul Richards <p....@elsevier.co.uk> on 1996/05/14 18:43:04 UTC

Another Apache problem (fwd)

Umm, PATH_INFO *should* be cgi-decoded according to David Robinson's draft.
Is Apache not honouring this?

> The trouble started when it was decided that kwdsearch
> (/usr/local/etc/cgi-bin/kwd/kwdsearch) uses the PATH_INFO environment
> variable. Under NCSA, this variable is CGI-decoded, which means that / and
> %2f become /, which is annoying if you have to split on /.

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