Re: [Phpwiki-talk] path_info vs. query_args

[Steve W. <sw...@wc...>]

On Fri, 30 Jun 2000, Arno Hollosi wrote:

>  > I envision URLs like 
>  > 
>  >   http://phpwiki.sourceforge.net/1.1.6/index.php3/PhpWikiBrainstorm
>  >   http://phpwiki.sourceforge.net/1.1.6/index.php3/PhpWikiBrainstorm?edit
>  > 
>  > I think these will work anywhere without server reconfiguration.
> 
> Interesting. I didn't know that these URLs work without server tweaking.
> Does this only work on Apache or on other servers as well?

Yes, PATH_INFO is always populated by whatever follows the / after a CGI
file. We'd find it in that array... what's it called...
http_request_vars[] or something... or else in $PATH_INFO.

>  > Also (I think) it would make it easy to create static 'snapshots' of a
>  > Wiki using a web mirroring tool like wget.
> 
> Do we really want to encourage mirroring through wget or other utils?
> (btw, wget is able to handle "?" stuff).

I think there might be some other, more Wiki-specific way of doing
mirroring and file sharing. More on this some other time.


If changing to PATH_INFO means a Wiki cannot be indexed by a search
engine, I would question its worth.  

Arno, if I read the mails right, some spiders ignore everything after the
? in a URL. That would mean a PhpWiki cannot be indexed since everything
after the index page has a question mark... therefore, switching to
PATH_INFO would mean a Wiki could be indexed, and that would be a Good
Thing since someone doing a search on "hammond organs" would find a lot of
the pages in Jeff's Wiki. Sound correct?

sw

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