From: "Roy T. Fielding" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Friday, November 09, 2001 2:19 PM
> > Since SSI is another beast, it accepts path_info and serves the > > page. > > Yes, though I wish I could find a way to prevent if from doing so > if it did not expect path_info. I've been thinking the same thing... same with CGI. It would be great if there were a way to 'consume' path_info or else 404. No trivial solution that I could come up with. > > etc. A possible convention, against the core handler, would be an > > external redirect back to /index.html to keep all that cruft away. > > No, those should be 404 unless .html is SSI. As an option, as opposed to a dictate? Could even provide that shtml's could leave that unset if they don't intend to use path_info. > > CGI authors have to deal with this issue in whatever way is appropriate, > > if they use path_info at all. > > Likewise for JSP. And every other scripting techology ;)
