Re: CGI implementation, file opening

Ok, I guess our implementation does have some mess on its own though, like the doc_root issue... On Sat, 10 Jun 2000, Rasmus Lerdorf wrote: > On Sat, 10 Jun 2000, Zeev Suraski wrote: > > I tend to agree with bug report #3044 that our methods of finding the file > > to open are a bit of a mess. I'm not too familiar with this subject. Are > > there any volunteers that are familiar with this issue, that would be > > willing to go over this code and fix it? Or at least look into it? :) > > The mess is not just ours. The problem is that every web server has a > different set of variables and a different way they are set. There is not > one correct portable way of doing this. If you clean it up and simplify > it for one server, it will break on all other servers. > > To fix this, someone has to install all the major web servers and > systematically go through and analyze each one. It also changed between > versions of IIS, for example. > > -Rasmus > -- Zeev Suraski <zeev@zend.com> http://www.zend.com/