Re: htsearch => wrapper script

Gilles Detillieux <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.comp.web.htdig.devel,gmane.comp.web.htdig.general
Message-ID <[email protected]>
Besides, htsearch already allows you to override the compiled-in
value of the config directory, in a wrapper script, via the CONFIG_DIR
environment variable.  So, right now you get the best of both worlds,
as you can use either approach.  See http://www.htdig.org/FAQ.html#q4.20
and http://www.htdig.org/FAQ.html#q5.30

According to Rupert Jones:
> I'm sorry, this isn't making any sense to me.
> 
> As I understand it, the path to the config file is compiled in to htsearch
> as a security precaution, so that when you specify which config file to use
> as a parameter when invoking htsearch from the webpage you are not exposing
> the directory location of ht://dig.
> 
> Why do you feel that compiling in the location of the conf files is a
> drawback?
...
> -----Original Message-----
> From: [email protected]
> [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Ted
> Stresen-Reuter
> Sent: 03 June 2004 23:55
> To: //Dig - Dev
> Subject: [htdig-dev] htsearch => wrapper script
> 
> You know, in setting up my package, I realized that it seems like a 
> real drawback to have to compile in the location of the conf files into 
> htsearch (rather than having it look in it's own directory, for 
> example, for cases in which the location is not compiled in).
> 
> Maybe, instead of putting htsearch in cgi-bin, we could put htsearch in 
> --prefix/bin and drop a perl script into cgi-bin that simply passes the 
> request on to htsearch (and htsearch sends the response). That way, we 
> could keep all the htdig binaries together in one place.
> 
> Does this make sense to anyone else or just to me?


-- 
Gilles R. Detillieux              E-mail: <[email protected]>
Spinal Cord Research Centre       WWW:    http://www.scrc.umanitoba.ca/
Dept. Physiology, U. of Manitoba  Winnipeg, MB  R3E 3J7  (Canada)


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