Tony Finch wrote: > > On Thu, Mar 07, 2002 at 08:23:35PM -0800, Sander van Zoest wrote: > > On Thu, Mar 07, 2002 at 02:25:56PM -0800, Greg Stein wrote: > > > > > > Modules shouldn't be worried about the document root. > > This also applies to CGIs. The DOCUMENT_ROOT environment variable is > a non-standard extension so it should be avoided.
I'm not entirely sure I agree with this. I can think of times when CGI scripts -- which have access to very little information unless they're running inside mod_perl -- *would* want to know the DocumentRoot in order to form proper vhost-specific URIs. Greg, please take a step back and ask yourself: what *harm* does it do for modules to know the DocumentRoot? If it does no harm, then standing in the way of others just because you can't think of an application *does* do harm. -- #ken P-)} Ken Coar, Sanagendamgagwedweinini http://Golux.Com/coar/ Author, developer, opinionist http://Apache-Server.Com/ "Millennium hand and shrimp!"
