[Boa-devel] boa wish-list: two items

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hi, I've been happily running boa on some obsolete hardware
and I am happy with its mild memory footprint.

My wish-list containst two items, both pertaining to
extending the CGI environment to be more apache-like.

1: the current directory is not changed to where
a CGI program lives before running it.  I patched the source
of my installed boa to support this. It appeared that it was
supposed to but didn't work.

2: Spoiled by Apache, I often write programs that attempt
to redirect the browser to another page by simply outputting
a "Location: ..." header and exiting.  Apache intercepts this
and prefixes a 302 response code instead of a 200 response code.

$ (echo GET /bin/locatomatic?go=http://a.b.c HTTP/1.0; echo) | hose 
tipjar.com 80 -slave
HTTP/1.1 302 Found
Date: Fri, 07 May 2004 20:47:43 GMT
Server: Apache/1.3.27 OpenSSL/0.9.6 (Unix)
Location: http://a.b.c
Connection: close
Content-Type: text/html; charset=iso-8859-1

<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//IETF//DTD HTML 2.0//EN">
<HTML><HEAD>
<TITLE>302 Found</TITLE>
</HEAD><BODY>
<H1>Found</H1>
The document has moved <A HREF="http://a.b.c">here</A>.<P>
</BODY></HTML>

Boa does not do this, which I discovered by chasing down a failure:
Boa serves a 200 header even when all the output is is a Location
directive.

For the moment I'm rewriting my relocating programs to use
"refresh" instead of location rather than getting Boa to parse
the outputs from CGI programs, but identifying CGI output of

Location: (...something...)

and treating it like a redirect temporary directive is my second
wish list item.

Thanks

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