[fpc-pascal] Is Path_Info available in FastCGI working as proxy?

[silvioprog]

On Fri, Jan 30, 2015 at 11:07 AM, Michael Van Canneyt <
michael at freepascal.org> wrote:
>
> On Fri, 30 Jan 2015, silvioprog wrote:
>
>> On Thu, Jan 29, 2015 at 7:28 PM, silvioprog <silvioprog at gmail.com> wrote:
>>       On Thu, Jan 29, 2015 at 6:58 PM, Michael Van Canneyt <
>> michael at freepascal.org> wrote:
>>             On Thu, 29 Jan 2015, silvioprog wrote:
>>                   Hello,
>>
>>                   I've the same problem in Apache and nginx:
>> TRequest.PathInfo always returns an empty string.
>>
>>                   In Apache, I'm using the the mod_proxy_fcgi module
>> already distributed in Apache 24. In nginx, I'm
>>                   using this configuration:
>>
>>                   location /dev/duallsms {
>>                   fastcgi_pass  localhost:8080;
>>                   ... other configurations ...
>>                   fastcgi_param PATH_INFO $fastcgi_path_info; # from
>> nginx docs
>>                   }
>>
>>                   First I've tested it on Windows, but I've noticed that
>> it fail in Linux too. So I ask: is
>>                   PATH_INFO available in FastCGI (working as proxy)? If
>> not, what I use instead it?!
>>
>>
>>             PATH_INFO is not always available, you need to configure that
>> in apache and/or nginx.
>>
>>
>> Thanks for the information.
>>
>>       See http://httpd.apache.org/docs/trunk/mod/mod_proxy_fcgi.html
>>
>>       The FPC fcl-web components by themselves do not try to reconstruct
>> PATH_INFO.
>>       You can try determining it from SCRIPT_URI  or SCRIPT_NAME.
>>
>>
>> Hm... what do you think about to read it from the REQUEST_URI param? If
>> it is good, you need to do a small change in FCL (if
>> relevant hehe). The patch in attached allows to use the implementation
>> below:
>>
>
> No, that will not happen. This is guesswork. Whether this will work, will
> very much depend on the setup.
>
> If you need this, then you should implement the logic for handling
> REQUEST_URI yourself.
>

Thanks for the info again.


> But I am prepared to provide a hook that allows you to determine PATH_INFO
> yourself if the server did not pass it on, since PATH_INFO is needed to
> determine the module that must handle the request.
>

Awesome! =)

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Silvio Clécio
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