Re: UNC path support in WebDNA 5.0
This WebDNA talk-list message is from 2003
It keeps the original formatting.
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texte = I would agree with you except, per the documentation, the slash is defined to be the web root so it is clearly broken. Of course, down the rabbit hole, we could deem this to be a bug in the documentation ;)Note: normally all file paths are relative to the local template, or if they begin with / they are relative to the web server's virtual host root.-----Original Message----- From: John Peacock [mailto:jpeacock@rowman.com] Sent: Monday, March 31, 2003 1:05 PM To: WebDNA-Talk@talk.smithmicro.com Subject: Re: UNC path support in WebDNA 5.0 Chris List Recipient wrote: > FYI... Recently I tried to get WebDNA to process files on another > drive > (d:\...) but had no luck. Also, WebDNA has special processing for the root > folder / symbol (although under Windows it is annoyingly handled > incorrectly). I doubt it will work with UNC names. > The root handling is because the Windows library code which translates a HTTP path to a physical (disk) path return not the virtual server root but the directory containing the $webcat.dll. This is something outside of SMSI's control, and actually affects all CGI's under Windows.------------------------------------------------------------- This message is sent to you because you are subscribed to the mailing list
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I would agree with you except, per the documentation, the slash is defined to be the web root so it is clearly broken. Of course, down the rabbit hole, we could deem this to be a bug in the documentation ;)Note: normally all file paths are relative to the local template, or if they begin with / they are relative to the web server's virtual host root.-----Original Message----- From: John Peacock [mailto:jpeacock@rowman.com] Sent: Monday, March 31, 2003 1:05 PM To: WebDNA-Talk@talk.smithmicro.com Subject: Re: UNC path support in WebDNA 5.0 Chris List Recipient wrote: > FYI... Recently I tried to get WebDNA to process files on another > drive > (d:\...) but had no luck. Also, WebDNA has special processing for the root > folder / symbol (although under Windows it is annoyingly handled > incorrectly). I doubt it will work with UNC names. > The root handling is because the Windows library code which translates a HTTP path to a physical (disk) path return not the virtual server root but the directory containing the $webcat.dll. This is something outside of SMSI's control, and actually affects all CGI's under Windows.------------------------------------------------------------- This message is sent to you because you are subscribed to the mailing list . To unsubscribe, E-mail to: To switch to the DIGEST mode, E-mail to Web Archive of this list is at: http://webdna.smithmicro.com/
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