Re: strange php url

Hi all and thanks for the answers. On my server, the building of some webpages with url like the one below produces a loop and crashes the server. (http://myurl.mydomain/path/index.php/path/index.php). As I never heard about the PATH_INFO before, I'm not sure the site uses this value. (I'll check the code to be sure). If I can make sure the PATH_INFO isn't used anywhere in the code, is there a way to change the config in order to generate a 404 for each url with a not null PATH_INFO ? Nicolas Figaro Joe Wollard a écrit :

I believe Kevin is on the right track there. To expand a bit, you can use $_SERVER['PATH_INFO'] with these urls instead of $_GET to make use of the data it contains example for url http://www.example.com/index.php/foo/bar <?php echo $_SERVER['PATH_INFO']; ?> produces: /foo/bar You can then parse this string, (generally by using the '/' character as a deliminator) and extract the data. MediaWiki even provides information (can't think of where at the moment) on how to use Apache's mod_rewrite to hide index.php thus making the url even cleaner: http://www.example.com/foo/bar Cheers! - Joe On 4/21/06, Kevin Kinsey <kdk@daleco.biz> wrote:

Hi, could anyone tell me why the following url doesn't generate a "page not found" ?

http://www.php.net/manual/en/function.checkdnsrr.php/manual/

    
you can try with a longer url after the last .php.

I tried with ../manual instead of manual and this produces a 404. I checked with www.php.net because my own site does the same and I wanted to be sure it didn't come from my config. thanks Nicolas Figaro

tg-php@gryffyndevelopment.com wrote:

    
The other thing that could happen is they could be

using something like the Apache mod_rewrite (some info at http://www.modrewrite.com/ among others) which can dynamically change the requested URL to a more standard URL before sending back to the user. Something like this: http://www.testserver.com/tgryffyn/homepage/middlesection Could be turned into something like:

http://www.testserver.com/userpage.php?user=tgryffyn&page=home#middleanchor

But to the user requesting the page, it'll always look like the first

URL.

Forgive me if I got any syntax or capability of mod_rewrite wrong, never used it myself just know that's the general sort of thing that it

does.

Pretty good thoughts, there. Some years ago, Tim Perdue (of PHPBuilder and SourceForge fame) had a popular article on "Search Engine Friendly URL's" (or some such), in which he described use of the Apache ForceLocal directive to make a site just One Big Script, parsing the slashed portions of the query string as variables (instead of GET, a la "?section=man&term=foo") so that the browser appears to be accessing documents in subfolders, but it's really just telling the server to grab a page with certain values defined in the URI. It sure looks like a possibility of this or similar magic in this case. Of course, I could be way off my tree... Kevin Kinsey -- Byte your tongue. -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php