RE: [PHP-CVS] cvs: php4 /sapi/cgi cgi_main.c

OK - installed PWS on my Win98 box - the one invisible to the Internet :). Just so I'm entirely clear - what am I looking for? I was looking for some sort of on-line discussion of the issue, but I guess I'm not looking in the right place. From: Shane Caraveo [mailto:shane@caraveo.com] > > Preston L. Bannister wrote: > > From: Shane Caraveo [mailto:shane@caraveo.com] > > > >>Not cool. I'm sure other servers also don't require force_redirect, so > >>do we start building a large if block checking for any server that > >>doesn't? Simply setting cgi.force_redirect=0 in php.ini fixes the > >>problem. If something more is needed, make it generic, not specific. > > > > > > OK - if the goal is to make default configuration do the right thing > > (so the guy installing PHP has less to get wrong) what would be generic? > > > > Pragmatically there are two web servers used by the majority of sites > > (Apache and IIS) so building knowledge into the code rather than into > > the documentation for the most common cases makes everyone's life simpler. > > > > I don't mind putting this into a different form. What would you suggest? > > Something other than checking that an environment variable has a secific > value. For Apache we don't check what the value of the vars are, but > that the vars exist. The advantage of this is that if the value changes > for some reason, php doesn't have to change to work with it. So find a > common var that is available on the majority of MS os/web server > combinations, and NOT common on other web servers (I beleive there are a > couple), then make the default of cgi.redirect_status_env in php.ini > that var name. Requires no code change.