> From: Rich Bowen [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> On Win32, the SSI directive 'exec cmd' is borked, permitting the > execution of simple one-word commands like 'dir', but failing on > commands containing spaces, such as 'perl /path/to/script arg1 arg2' > > After wrestling with this for nearly 2 hours, I asked on > c.i.w.servers.www, and got a very rapid response from Bill Rowe, so > apparently this was fairly well known, and I should have been aware of > it. However, I wasn't, and wondered if it is appropriate to put this in > the docs, until such time as there is a fix of some kind. > > I know that it is generally considered bad form to document bugs rather > than fixing them, but the latter is not really an option to me, and I'd > like to save someone else this same frustration. > > Are there any objections to this variety of documentation change? Why don't you use something like this: "The use of #include virtual is almost always prefered to using either #exec cgi or #exec cmd. The former uses the standard Apache sub-request mechanism to include files or scripts. It is much better tested and maintained. In addition, #exec cmd will not work at all on some platforms like win32." Joshua. --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
