On Fri, 7 Oct 2005 11:04:26 +0200, Peter BARABAS peter.barabas@gmail.com wrote:
I don't know if it makes sense, but I'd treat the prefix dispatch part as SCRIPT_NAME and everything after it as PATH_INFO. E.g. in http://www.something.net/authors/Kurt_Vonnegut "/authors/" would be the SCRIPT_NAME and "Kurt_Vonnegut" the PATH_INFO. Again, this might be non-sense.
Yes, that would make sense with prefix dispatchers but not with arbitrary dispatchers. What if the dispatcher dispatches depending on the last three characters of the URI? Or depending on the phase of the moon?
I think what you want can be achieved if you, in your own dispatcher, set AUX-REQUEST-VALUE to whatever information about the URI you want to communicate to the handlers. Only the dispatcher can know which part of the URI is relevant to the handler and which isn't.
On a related note, I agree that SCRIPT-NAME might not be the best name but at the moment it's at least well-defined.
Cheers, Edi.