re:Re: FastCGI, NCSA 1.5.2 & SSI
Webmaster (web@web.inetstrat.com)
Tue, 21 Jan 1997 09:34:45 -0500 (EST)
Date: Tue, 21 Jan 1997 09:34:45 -0500 (EST)
From: Webmaster <web@web.inetstrat.com>
To: Mike Baptiste <baptiste@nortel.ca>
Subject: re:Re: FastCGI, NCSA 1.5.2 & SSI
In-Reply-To: <199701202041.PAA27487@relay.openmarket.com>
Message-Id: <Pine.LNX.3.91.970121093326.4744A-100000@web.inetstrat.com>
On 20 Jan 1997, Mike Baptiste wrote:
> The NCSA server disallows an exec cgi SSI (CGI or FastCGI - doesn't matter)
> IF you have data passed (via QUERY_STRING or PATH_INFO) The basis for this
> was allowing PATH Translations (to datafill PATH_TRANSLATED from PATH_INFO)
> on an SSI would take too much time so they disallowed it. Well, when they
> did that they disallowed data being passed in via QUERY_STRING as well (All
> they do is check the filename of the cgi and ensure nothing else exists at
> the end of the URL). According to the NCSA designer I spoke with it just
> happened and no one seemed to care.
Quick solution: make a /bin/sh wrapper for the CGI in question. export
all your variables.
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