Re: RELEASED: scgi-1.6

On Aug 11, 2005, at 4:56 PM, Al Pacifico wrote:

> <begin paste>
> Here is the patch to that _q_traverse():
>
> -        path = request.get_environ('PATH_INFO', '')
> -        assert path[:1] == '/'
> +        path = request.get_environ('PATH_INFO')
> +        if not path:
> +            return redirect(request.get_environ('SCRIPT_NAME', '') +
> '/',
> +                            permanent=True)
>
> <end of paste>
>
> David had suggested that this patch is needed for Apache.

Not for Apache, really, but for any context where, as Mike suggested,
you trust the SCRIPT_NAME to be right, and where you just want to treat
an empty path in what seems like the on

>
> David, could you comment on whether it's application breaks  
> simple_server
> and other server functionality and for which versions of mod_scgi?

I'm pretty sure this has no impact on the simple_server, where
the SCRIPT_NAME is always '' and the PATH_INFO is never empty.