The following reply was made to PR mod_include/1814; it has been noted by GNATS.
From: "William F. Polik" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: Marc Slemko <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: RE: mod_include/1814: exec cmd SSI directive fails in Win95
Date: Tue, 17 Feb 1998 13:21:08 -0500
At 10:24 AM 2/16/98 -0700, you wrote:
>> <!--#exec cmd="DIR"-->
>
>Possibly related to the fact that "dir" isn't a command, it is just
>something that the command interpreter can parse.
This also fails for MEM, which is a built-in command.
>> <!--#exec cmd="perl c:\htdocs\wfp\ssitest1.cgi"-->
>
>Possibly a problem with not specifying a directory for perl.
This fails if I specify the path to perl (both with foward and with back
slashes)
>> <!--#exec cmd="/cgi-bin/ssitest1.cgi"-->
>
>Erm... please go through the docs again. exec cmd runs something from the
>_local_ filesystem. You don't have a /cgi-bin directory. Try using
>include virtual instead.
This was a desperate attempt!
Upon additional reseacrh in the newsgroups, I have not found a single
instance of someone getting the SSI "exec cmd" to work.
However, I do find one claim of someone getting the SSI "exec cgi" to work:
Subject: Re: Apache 1.3b3/Win32 SSI exec cmd ?
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (DiE SpAm, DiE!)
Date: 1997/11/30
Message-ID: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Newsgroups: comp.infosystems.www.servers.ms-windows
If you are calling a CGI, wether it be a Perl script or compiled
.EXE, the best SSI call is such as:
<!--#exec cgi="testcgi.exe" -->
Works great for me, hope this helps!!
Andrew
I also see that someone added the following to PR#1721:
>Fix:
There is some logic in mod_include that does not execute
the CMD but executes the .shtml file it came from.
If I get further I will send the code to you.
THANK YOU VERY MUC
My question to you is: Do you have any concrete information that the SSI
"exec cmd" works in the 1.3b3/win32 version of Apache? I.e., do you use
it, or have you seen a report of someone using it? If so, I've got more
playing around to do! If not, I think it doesn't work.
Thanks,
Will Polik
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