Re: bug in search engine

[Hans-Peter Nilsson <hp@bitrange.com>]

On Thu, 9 Oct 2003, Christopher Faylor wrote:
> On Thu, Oct 09, 2003 at 05:54:53PM -0400, Hans-Peter Nilsson wrote:
> >The interesting question is why the apache at bitrange.com
> >(1.3.27) does not pass argv and why it does on gcc/sourceware
> >(2.0.40).  What confparam is different between my apache and
> >yours?
>
> It has to do with how the web page is constructed.
>
> <form method="get" action="/cgi-bin/htsearch">
> </form>
>
> vs. this:
>
> <form method="post" action="/cgi-bin/htsearch">
> </form>

The former can be on *any web page or file:///*.  Evildoer
just adds gcc.gnu.org before the /cgi-bin.

> >Sorry, but that's unimportant and beside the point, as Gerald
> >pointed out.
>
> Can you explain how?  method="post" tells a web server not to pass
> things on the command line which seems to be precisely the point.  I
> don't understand why you think fixing this would not solve the problem.
> This isn't a server configury thing.  It's basic html.

If you have control over all html everywhere, yes, but we don't.

Which puts the focus on the apache conf.

brgds, H-P