[cobalt-developers] cgiwrap and Environment Variables

[Sean Harrington <macgenius@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hey everyone,

This is a VERY hot issue for me.

Cobalt requires that we use cgiwrap on our units...

http://www.cobalt.com/support/kb/search.php3?ques=cgiwrap&qid=115&language=1

"...NOTE: UNSUPPORTED. The following information is outside the scope of
Cobalt Networks Technical Support, and could potentially void your
warranty..."

...but it doesn't seem as though cgiwrap does a particularly thorough job
of passing environment variables, particularly $ENV{'DOCUMENT_URI'}, which
is used extensively in most CGI scripts to return a unique identifier for
SSI transactions.

Does anyone know for certain that this is true or false. If so, what are
the other pitfalls of HAVING to use cgiwrap for CGIs.

On the other hand, what are the pitfalls of disabling cgiwrap?


- Sean Harrington
The MacGenius Group