mod_perl question

[Scott Penrose]

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On 10/02/2004, at 11:46 AM, Carolyn Hicks wrote:

> On Tue, Feb 10, 2004 at 11:23:03AM +1100, CrashKat wrote:
>> Does anyone know how to get the entire url from an apache
>> request object?
>
> not with a single method, but you can put it together from its various
> components:
>
> my $url = 'http://'.$r->hostname.$r->uri;

There are three problems with the above approach.

1) It misses if you are using https - this has bitten me, years after 
implementing code, people turn on HTTPS in the config and my scripts 
break.

2) It is missing the port number - there is nothing stopping the user 
either providing a redirect on a port or the administrator of the box 
changing the port.

3) It does not necessarily come in with the host name that was selected 
(ie: the HTTP 1.1)

Note that the way Apache passes this information in has changed 
dramatically from 1.x to 2.x.

To fully build up a URL (and note that this is not necessarily the URL 
it came in on) you will need.

	* Scheme
	* Host Name
	* User / Password
	* Port
	* Path
	* Query

Have a look at something like Apache::URI

There would be a binding in mod_perl Apache to allow you to get the URL 
it came in on, but as a non-Mod Perl programmer I can't find it easily.

Scooter

> -carolyn
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