Re: /cgi-bin/ hardcoded

On 2005-08-07, at 1255, Paul Theodoropoulos wrote:
> At 03:26 AM 8/7/2005, Tek Support wrote:
>> Not what I'd expect from a C programmer.
>
> yes, in my experience, i've always found that people are much more  
> willing to help me when i start off by insulting them.

funny, i don't remember a question in his original message.

i also don't remember seeing your name in the source code. the  
message wasn't even sent to you, why go out of your way to attack  
somebody with a legitimate complaint? calm down, the man's got  
something to say, and i thought he did a pretty good job of saying it.

if you've been on this list for a while, you can't tell me you  
haven't heard the same complaint about hard-coded path names several  
times already. i know it's been said, because i complained about this  
two years ago, back when i tried to get vqadmin running somewhere  
other than a "/cgi-bin/" directory, even going so far as to write a  
patch to fix the issue.

my complaint, and my patch, were ignored back then- just as i fully  
expect them to be ignored by inter7 now.

sure, it's cool that you can click a link on their web site and  
they'll send you a pen and some sticky notes with their logo, but the  
fact that the version of vqadmin which is available for download on  
inter7's web site is the same one that i wrote my patch against, TWO  
YEARS AGO, tells me something.

almost all of inter7's software seems to suffer from the same  
problem, having paths hard-coded into the programs. a WORKING method  
of changing the directory and the URL path of the program in vqadmin  
would be nice- although what would be even nicer would be if the  
program would just look at the values of the SCRIPT_URI and  
DOCUMENT_ROOT environment variables and figure it out at run time...

rather like a patch that i wrote two years ago.

again, i fully expect to be ignored by inter7- if there are indeed  
any inter7 employees reading this list anymore. two years with no  
updates, especially where there are known issues with the software,  
and a patch just sitting out there on the net which has been offered  
to you for free and fixes the issue... it's just plain sad.

for the benefit of "TekSaPort" and anybody else who's interested,  
check out http://qmail.jms1.net/ ... about 3/4 of the way down the  
page (search for "vqadmin") you will find a patch which fixes the  
problem.

i know it worked on my own server two years ago, but i found that i  
prefer using the command line tools over vqadmin anyway, so i no  
longer use it... but if anybody finds any problems with it, please  
let me know.

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