Re: tech aspects: how xaraya gets rid of ?& w/o mod_rw?

In article <bo8c26$t87$1-111RdWWlOxkOkXtL6OYfHgC/[email protected]>, "mulpinBR - 111.898.068 > http://br.xaraya.com" <[email protected]> wrote:
>As you might know, I'm not exatcly a programmer, not even a good
>code-hacker. And didn't look at any piece of code from xaraya yet. But
>I'm trying to convince our programmer that it's possible to get rid of
>?& in urls w/o using mod_rw.
>
>Which functions handle this? Is there any other trick? Is it
>multi-OS/server?
>
>Thanks in advance,
>Murilo
>
Did you have a look at RFC 23 yet ?

The main "trick" with index.php/more/stuff/here is that web servers
support additional path information *after* the script itself (index.php
here), and they put that in PATH_INFO. That's been around since
the early days of CGI programs/scripts, and has been supported
for related technologies like PHP or ASP afterwards as well.

The rest is a matter of letting Xaraya know how to encode and
decode those URLs, and that's where the <module>_userapi_encode_
shorturl() and <module>_userapi_decode_shorturl() functions come in.

See http://docs.xaraya.com/docs/rfcs/rfc0023.html for details...

Mike.