Environment Variable to determine the URL Path

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I've seen that in YAPC::Organizer we are using $ENV{REQUEST_URI}:

<<<
sub get_page {

   # REQUEST_URI looks like this:  /content.html
   my $page = $ENV{REQUEST_URI} || '';
   $page =~ s@.*/@@;
   $page =~ s/\.html(\?.*)?$//;
   $page ||= 'index';

   my $filename = "$templates_dir/$page.tmpl";

   return ($page, $filename);
}
>>>

Unless I'm wrong, this solution is suboptimal. REQUEST_URI contains the entire 
path of the CGI script like  /cgi-bin/test.cgi/hello/there. OTOH, the 
PATH_INFO env var contains just the trailing components: "/hello/there". So I 
think we should use it instead. This would also enable us to add a nested URL 
tree to the path. (/my/ that contains /my/presentations/, etc.).

And why is: http://www.perl.org.il/YAPC/2004/hello/ (or any path containing a 
/) redirected to the root of the site?

Regards,

	Shlomi Fish

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• Environment Variable to determine the URL Path Shlomi Fish 20:57 on 03 Dec 2003
  • Re: [yapcom] Environment Variable to determine the URL Path Gabor Szabo 10:33 on 04 Dec 2003

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