[fpc-pascal] fpweb: processing URLs like GET http://server/cgi-bin/tigercgi/documents/301/

[Reinier Olislagers]

On 25-2-2013 14:06, Michael Van Canneyt wrote:
> On Mon, 25 Feb 2013, Reinier Olislagers wrote:
> 
>> On 25-2-2013 13:38, Michael Van Canneyt wrote:
>>> On Mon, 25 Feb 2013, Reinier Olislagers wrote:
>>>> Say I have an fpweb CGI server with action documents registered and I
>>>> GET http://server/cgi-bin/tigercgi/documents/301/
>>>> 1. How do instruct the documents action to handle that? Currently I get
>>>> a Error: Could not determine HTTP module for request ....
>>>
>>> Did you register the module ? It means that the documents module was not
>>> found.
>>>
>>> As soon as the path has more than 1 component, it is assumed that the
>>> path is composed of
>>> /module/action/whatever.
>>
>> Yep, started a new default CGI application which registered a module.
>> I'll have a look to see how it goes with multiple modules (e.g. for
>> documents, images, whatever), and how I can handle arbitrary actions
>> (document id such as 301 in the example above, image ID) or perhaps even
>> disable action handling altogether if possible.
> 
> Do not define any actions, and implement the OnRequest handle of the
> module.
> The OnRequest handle is executed before any Action is tested, and only
> if it didn't handle the request is the action handled.

Ok, thanks Michael, I'll give that a go!