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Location command in Perl - what's 'wrong' with it?

vpendrak
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Sep 4, 2009, 11:36 AM

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Location command in Perl - what's 'wrong' with it?	Can't Post

Hi,

I'm re-writing a Perl code created by someone else (within a code somecode.cgi) and found something interesting. I came upon a 'Location' command that normally redirects you to a specified page :

print "Location: http://www.yyy.com/temp/index.htm\n\n";

which could be equivalent to:

print "Location: index.htm\n\n";
if the cgi is executed under http://www.yyy.com/temp/

up until now, it is understandable.
My confusion comes when instead of .htm file I used .php extension (a htm version with some php code in it).

Used in the above context, it actually WORKS (executes) as a regular PHP code. On top of that, when a relative path is being used, the address bar in a browser does not show the index.php (htm) file but it stays with an original cgi script that was called. Which makes me question.....is this a normal behavior for Apache to interpret this file as a php (since this is not a web request) and is there any documentation about it?

I'm writing this post because this solution would save a great deal of work for whatever I'm working on but since this is viewed as a bug (on a Apache side) by my manager, it cannot be implemented.

Any help is appreciated.
Thanks

FishMonger
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Sep 4, 2009, 12:52 PM

Post #2 of 3 (1276 views)

Re: [vpendrak] Location command in Perl - what's 'wrong' with it? [In reply to]	Can't Post

It's not a bug in Apache. It's a bug in your code.

A redirection request should be a full url which includes the scheme i.e., the protocol such as http:// or https://. You should NOT use relative paths like print "Location: index.htm\n\n"; in a redirection header because it's not fully supported and will give unpredictable results.

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is this a normal behavior for Apache to interpret this file as a php (since this is not a web request)

What do you mean by it's not a web request? You have a cgi script that executes a redirection request/header. That by definition is a web request. Just because it may be requesting a local file, doesn't mean that it's not a web request.

vpendrak
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Sep 8, 2009, 9:05 AM

Post #3 of 3 (1218 views)

Re: [FishMonger] Location command in Perl - what's 'wrong' with it? [In reply to]	Can't Post

Thanks a lot for your help.

Using a relative path would be a great thing in my case. We have pages that use standard headers and footers that are generated through php. In few cases, the perl script does some calculations and the output needs to incorporate those headers and footers together with the results. It would be ideal to be able to call that index.php with some querystring attached and have all this hidden from a user (if the relative link is used....that's what happens).

Otherwise, would you know of any way where I could use 'Location http://www.zzz.com/index.php' command and pass the values to it but not exposing them (equivalent to POST method) so the url address stays clean.

Thanks
vp

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