[Webware-devel] urlPath() and PSP

[Stuart Donaldson]

So before I start getting too comfortable with my knowledge of Webware, I wanted to check on a couple of things that look like possible problems.

In the case of the psp-handler, the mod_webkit sets WK_ABSOLUTE=1 and then HTTPRequest.py urlPath()/fsPath() will return a path constructed from the REQUEST_URI and the DOCUMENT_ROOT. This breaks when referencing files under user directories, because it does not properly deal with the /~user/ expansion on Apache/Unix systems.

However, it appears in the limited testing I have done, that the SCRIPT_FILENAME always refers to the absolute server side path for the file, including any ~expansion for the username. (note: we can't do our own ~ expansion, without adding code to check where Apache has the user public_html directories located, since that is a configuration option in Apache.)

Furthermore, in both with direct URL's (ie: no ~user expansion) and with the ~user URL's, the extra URLPath information is not properly parsed off of the .psp pages. However the PATH_INFO environment variable does contain the extra URL information.

So in the case of the psp-handler / WK_ABSOLUTE=1 condition, it appears (using Apache 1.3.26 under Linux) that the urlPath() should return the SCRIPT_FILENAME and the extraURLPath should be set to PATH_INFO, rather than trying to parse it.

Under the normal webkit-handler it does not appear to be a problem, as the PATH_INFO contains the URL after parsing off the location where the webware handler resides. And the PATH_INFO must then be parsed manually to determine the context and other information.

Has anyone else tried the psp-handler and either extraURL information, or the ~user expansion?

-Stuart-



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