Re: Change in 5.2.1 re. parsing of URL

Lewis Kapell wrote: > There seems to be a behavior change introduced in 5.2.1 and I would like > to know if it was deliberate. > > A couple of years ago, PHP introduced functionality that made it > possible to use a certain trick. I don't know how to describe this > trick in words, so I will illustrate with an example. > > http://www.mydomain.com/mypage.php/phonypage.pdf > > In this example there is a PHP script called mypage.php which serves up > a PDF. Putting the extra text at the end of the URL makes it appear to > the user's browser that the URL ends with '.pdf' rather than '.php'. > We > introduced this hack at my company because a few users were unable to > view pages containing PDF or RTF content, presumably because of some > combination of browser and/or firewall settings. > > I find that version 5.2.1 breaks this behavior - attempting to visit a > URL such as the above produces a 'page not found' error. Presumably > because it is trying to find the file 'phonypage.pdf' which doesn't exist. > > My question is, should this be regarded as a bug which might be fixed? > Or is this a deliberate change of behavior? this is nothing to do with php - it's down to your webserver settings. >