On Wed, 26 May 1999, Peter S Galbraith wrote: > > Peter> (I have a perhaps similar problem with mh-book: I wrote a cgi-bin > > Peter> search engine that returns URLs like file:/usr/doc/mh-book/... > > Peter> and so it won't really work for remote hosts accessing mh-book > > Peter> through http://SERVER_NAME/doc/mh-book; the solution is probably > > Peter> to return http://SERVER_NAME/doc/mh-book URLs instead of > > Peter> file:/usr/doc/mh-book because that also works locally but then I > > Peter> have to parse config files to get the SERVER_NAME like dwww does. > > Peter> I assume I can't expect $ENV{SERVER_NAME} to work for all > > Peter> cgi-bin capable web servers as it does for Apache) > > > > But not all cgi-bin capable browsers ;-) > > I think I'll simply check $ENV{SERVER_NAME} and use it if > defined. That will cover a good proportion of cases anyway.
Um, just a suggestion, but why not just return a page via http that has no hostname explicitly specified, so that all links and hrefs in it are relative? i.e., instead of returning a URL of the form http://SERVER_NAME/doc/mh-book, just return /doc/mh-book Works for most of my applications, at least. -- Mike Renfro / Instructor, Basic Engineering Program 931 372-3601 / [EMAIL PROTECTED]
