From: Michael Lucas-Smith <s3225202@...>
Date: 2001-06-17T20:11:05+09:00
Subject: [ruby-talk:16558] Mod_Ruby - CGI - requested url

Hi Everyone,
    Recently I've been toying around with the mod_ruby and eRuby stuff. 
I setup an rWiki just to get the feel of how it all fits together (btw: 
rWiki is a fantastic example on how to do heaps of things, dRuby, RD, 
CGI, etc..)
But then I tried to find out what kind of information I knew at run time 
from a cgi request. I can find the cookies, the environment (all the 
Apache information about the request) the parameters parsed to the 
request... BUT.. not the actual url requested.  For instance,
http://testserver/test.rbx/moreInformation?a=b
What I really want to be able to know is the fact that the user 
requested moreInformation after entering the script. I might be heading 
in the wrong direction here, but I've done this kind of thing before in 
other languages. Perhaps it would be better if I just used parameters, 
but I personally like the idea of being able to hide the fact that the 
user has even entered a cgi program (ie: removing the .rbx from test and 
giving it a name like 'documents')
I looked through a lot of the code and I think that this information 
might be lost in the C code of mod_ruby.. but I'm not even sure if 
Apache will give this to any one in the first place?
Does any one have any ideas?

Michael Lucas-Smith