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From: erik quanstrom <quanstro@quanstro.net>
Date: Sun, 19 Apr 2009 19:21:39 -0400
To: 9fans@9fans.net
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Subject: Re: [9fans] web server
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On Sun Apr 19 18:04:51 EDT 2009, benavento@gmail.com wrote:
> skip is pretty much on the point exactly the same convention is valid
> for cgifs.
>
> http://machine/cgifs/script?var0=val0&var1=val1
>
> cgi as cgifs are programs that parse the requested uri and from there,
> after the 2nd '/', get the script name "script" in the example above.
>
> On Sun, Apr 19, 2009 at 2:05 PM, erik quanstrom <quanstro@quanstro.net> wrote:
> > On Sun Apr 19 12:03:54 EDT 2009, 9nut@9netics.com wrote:
> >> you could make local mods to your httpd so that paths starting with
> >> /cgi are given similar treatment as those that start with /magic; it
> >> would execute "cgi" and pass it the arguments as usual.  then url is:
> >>
> >> http://myserver/cgi/foo?var1=1&var2=2
> >>
> >> and in script "foo" the $QUERY_STRING will be "var1=1&var2=2"
> >
> > if you look at /sys/src/cmd/ip/httpd/init.c you'll see that
> > argv[3] is the query string.
> >

minooka; cd /n/sources/plan9/sys/src
minooka; grep QUERY_STRING libhttpd/* cmd/ip/httpd/*
minooka; strings /386/bin/ip/httpd/* | grep QUERY_STRING

yields nothing.  maybe this is true for something else, but it's not
true of the distributed httpd.

- erik