Re: WWW Form Bug Report: "PATH_TRANSLATED not sent on Redirected URLs" on SunOS 4.x (fwd)

[Randy Terbush <ra...@zyzzyva.com>]

>From this message, I get the impression that you are calling
an external 'imagemap' CGI program. Is that true? If so, why
not give the imagemap module a try?

It sounds as if you are expecting environment variables to
get passed between server redirects. That is not the case.


> ----- Forwarded message from Rob Perelman -----
> 
> Date: Thu, 17 Oct 1996 10:53:36 -0700 (PDT)
> From: Rob Perelman <ro...@electriciti.com>
> To: Rob Hartill <ro...@imdb.com>
> cc: apache-bugs%apache.org@organic.com, jem@electriciti.com
> Subject: Re: WWW Form Bug Report: "PATH_TRANSLATED not sent on Redirected URLs" on SunOS 4.x
> 
> > >Standard "Server Error The server encountered an
> > >internal error or misconfiguration..." upon
> > >accessing the original imagemap CGI referring to
> > >a mapfile in a directory of a user which is being
> > >redirected to another web server.  The file does
> > >exist on the server.  The original imagemap CGI
> > >expects the environment variable PATH_TRANSLATED
> > >to be sent.  The Apache server is not sending it
> > >in this case of redirection.
> > 
> > Servers do not pass environment variables to *other* servers
> > when they redirect. That's the job of your CGI.
> 
> Maybe we misphrased the symptoms.  Here's an example of what we mean: we 
> have a user named johndoe who accesses their page as 
> http://server1/~johndoe.  Now, in our configuration files we redirect 
> /~johndoe to http://server2/~johndoe, and that is working fine.  However, an 
> imagemap on server1 pointing to a map file in johndoe's directory will 
> not work.  The imagemap program is called as such: 
> http://server1/cgi-bin/imagemap/johndoe/mapfile.map, and when we did a 
> little investigation, we found that imagemap was getting a blank 
> PATH_TRANSLATED environment variable when it should contain the absolute 
> path of the map file.  This blank variable only occurs when the user's 
> directory is redirected, but in our eyes, PATH_TRANSLATED should go 
> unaffected.  Please explain.  Thanks in advance.
> 
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