[thelist] JavaScript variable into CF variable

[martin.p.burns at uk.pwcglobal.com]

Memo from Martin P Burns of PricewaterhouseCoopers

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Hi there

With Apache, the error page (and this is true for all
error documents, not just 404) will report the standard
environmental variables for the *real page* which you're
using for the error handler.

So if your .htaccess contains
ErrorDocument 404 /errors/error-404.html
then your standard environmental variables for the URL
http://yourdomain.com/nosuchpage.html
will be those of
http://yourdomain.com/errors/error-404.html

Fortunately, Apache defines some other environmental variables
which pass information to the error page about the page which
was initially requested:

REDIRECT_HTTP_ACCEPT=*/*, image/gif, image/x-xbitmap, image/jpeg
REDIRECT_HTTP_USER_AGENT=Mozilla/1.1b2 (X11; I; HP-UX A.09.05 9000/712)
REDIRECT_PATH=.:/bin:/usr/local/bin:/etc
REDIRECT_QUERY_STRING=
REDIRECT_REMOTE_ADDR=121.345.78.123
REDIRECT_REMOTE_HOST=ooh.ahhh.com
REDIRECT_SERVER_NAME=crash.bang.edu
REDIRECT_SERVER_PORT=80
REDIRECT_SERVER_SOFTWARE=Apache/0.8.15
REDIRECT_URL=/nosuchpage.html

(note the REDIRECT_ prefix)

This is taken from
http://httpd.apache.org/docs/custom-error.html

Now whether CF picks these up, I can't tell you. But Apache provides them.

Cheers
Martin


To:   thelist at lists.evolt.org
Subject:  Re: [thelist] JavaScript variable into CF variable

I do know that IIS and Apache handle the 404 differently.  I think evolt
went through a similar problem.  Dan, did you not have to rewrite a portion
of Apache and recompile to get it to pass the original url to the 404
handler?

----- Original Message -----
From: "Minh Lee Goon" <v7ac at sdsumus.sdstate.edu>
Subject: Re: [thelist] JavaScript variable into CF variable


: #cgi.Query_String# doesn't return a value. Neither does #cgi.Path_Info#.
: I'm using CF5 with Apache on Windows. I wonder if Apache might have
: something to do with it, because the article I read uses IIS.
:
: Joshua Olson wrote:
: >
: > Take a look at cgi.query_string and see if it contains the url in it.
: >
: > -joshua



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