Bug#32263: Proposal: Splitting cgi-bin

[Josip Rodin]

On Fri, Nov 03, 2000 at 12:20:53AM -0500, Brian White wrote:
> Here's what I wrote up as a patch to "policy.sgml".
> 
> ===============================================================================
> --- policy.sgml.orig  Fri Nov  3 00:02:17 2000
> +++ policy.sgml       Fri Nov  3 00:18:45 2000
> @@ -2949,9 +2949,20 @@
>               </example>
>               and can be referred to as
>               <example>
> -               http://localhost/cgi-bin/&lt;cgi-bin-name&gt;
> -             </example></p></item>
> +               http://localhost/cgi-lib/&lt;cgi-bin-name&gt;
> +             </example></p>
>               
> +           <p>The purpose of using <tt>cgi-lib</tt> instead of
> +           <tt>cgi-bin</tt> is that most webmasters are used to having
> +           <tt>cgi-bin</tt> available for their own local use, much like
> +           <tt>/usr/local</tt>.  Having packages use <tt>cgi-lib</tt>
> +           means that no changes need to be made by the webmaster to both
> +           keep what they are used to and still have access to Debian
> +           packages.</p>
> +
> +           <p>Web servers should include <tt>/cgi-lib/</tt> as a standard
> +           ScriptAlias of <tt>/usr/lib/cgi-bin/</tt>.</p></item>
> +
>               
>           <item><p>Access to html documents</p>
> ===============================================================================

Although the name cgi-lib is a moot point, I agree with the idea - seconded.

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