Re: [qmailadmin-devel] qmailadmin's CGI quirks

[Matt B. <ma...@in...>]

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Kacper Wysocki wrote:
> Trouble is, qmailadmin is not a typical CGI program in that it
> generates URLs of the form
> 
> http://domain.com/cgi-bin/qmailadmin/com/showusers?user=postmaster&dom=domain.com&time=1220315583

Actually, this is quite typical of a CGI.

> - note the /com/ part which I don't know how to map up to a query
> string qmailadmin understands, though I'm guessing apache does some
> magic to get this right.
> normal cgi servers think /com/showusers is a file in a subfolder of qmailadmin/

qmailadmin is using path environment variables provided by the web server to resolve
the request.  This is totally normal.

> What is qmailadmin doing with the query string?
> How do I get some basic debug messages or logging going to see what
> qmailadmin is doing?

I would suggest you learn a bit about how the CGI interface works before
attempting to debug a CGI.  There should be plenty of resources available
online.
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