[htdig] RE: [htdig-dev] htsearch => wrapper script

[Rupert J. <ru...@sa...>]

Hi Ted,

I'm sorry, this isn't making any sense to me.

As I understand it, the path to the config file is compiled in to htsearch
as a security precaution, so that when you specify which config file to use
as a parameter when invoking htsearch from the webpage you are not exposing
the directory location of ht://dig.

Why do you feel that compiling in the location of the conf files is a
drawback?

I personally feel that adding an additional perl script is creating an
unnecessary step in the processing of form data to htsearch, for the sake of
convenience. I would assume that all ht://dig users are webmasters of some
degree, and compiling htsearch with the location of the conf files shouldn't
be a major task for most ht://dig users.

Not to mention the issues faced by users who would then need to reconfigure
their implementations of ht://dig in order to incorporate the new script.

Kind regards,

Rupert Jones


-----Original Message-----
From: htd...@li...
[mailto:htd...@li...] On Behalf Of Ted
Stresen-Reuter
Sent: 03 June 2004 23:55
To: //Dig - Dev
Subject: [htdig-dev] htsearch => wrapper script

You know, in setting up my package, I realized that it seems like a 
real drawback to have to compile in the location of the conf files into 
htsearch (rather than having it look in it's own directory, for 
example, for cases in which the location is not compiled in).

Maybe, instead of putting htsearch in cgi-bin, we could put htsearch in 
--prefix/bin and drop a perl script into cgi-bin that simply passes the 
request on to htsearch (and htsearch sends the response). That way, we 
could keep all the htdig binaries together in one place.

Does this make sense to anyone else or just to me?

Ted Stresen-Reuter



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