Re: CGI/1.0: last call (fwd)

ts (decoux@moulon.inra.fr)
Sun, 5 Dec 93 16:19:57 +0100

> Uhm.. I must be overlooking something.. as far as I have understood it,
>
> issuing an ISINDEX query will result in a URL like
>
> "http://server.some.where/oldpath/oldfile?word",
> where oldpath/file points to the document that the query was issued from,
> while a form request will point to a virtual file in the /htbin dir.
>
> Isn't that the easiest way to find whether it was a FROM request or an
> ISINDEX query?
>

If for the browser , URL is :

http://server/htbin/script/pathname

With ISINDEX the URL is always "http://server/htbin/script/pathname?aaa"

Guy Decoux