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Korthrun wrote: |
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> It seems to me that when I setup .cgi and .pl via an addhandler |
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> statement such as: |
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> AddHandler cgi-script .cgi .pl |
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> apache will try to execute anything containing .pl or .cgi. |
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> If i have a file, foo.pl for example. |
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> http://localhost/foo.pl will execute (good) |
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> now if I move it to foo.txt |
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> http://localhost/foo.txt will show me the contents of the file (good) |
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> now if I move it to foo.pl.txt |
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> http://localhost/foo.pl.txt will try to execute it, as it will if i |
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> canme it foo.cgi.txt. |
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> calling it foo.php.txt will still print it out, but the new lines are |
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> stripped etc, it looks like it's been run through and spat out php. |
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> Is this intended behaviour? It kind of seems like something gone wrong. |
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Yup, it is intended, check the doc: |
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http://httpd.apache.org/docs/2.2/mod/mod_mime.html#addhandler |
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"Once that has been put into your httpd.conf file, any file containing |
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the .cgi extension will be treated as a CGI program." |
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The keyword here is "containing", not "ending with", which may be |
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surprising, but it is so. :) |
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