Date: Thu, 30 Apr 1998 18:52:24 +0400 From: Alexandre Snarskii <snar@paranoia.ru> To: Damon Reed <dreed@value.net> Cc: freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Adding footers automatically to served HTML pages Message-ID: <19980430185224.53820@nevalink.ru> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.3.96.980429132629.4311A-100000@mercutio.value.net>; from Damon Reed on Wed, Apr 29, 1998 at 01:43:19PM -0700 References: <19980429220207.35806@nevalink.ru> <Pine.BSF.3.96.980429132629.4311A-100000@mercutio.value.net>
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On Wed, Apr 29, 1998 at 01:43:19PM -0700, Damon Reed wrote:
> > >
> > > But SSI's is the easiest way. Check www.apache.org and run a search on
> > > it.
> >
> > It's easiest way in case when you or your co-workers writes these
> > pages. In the situation, where you're have no control on web-publish
> > ( i.e. you allow your users to upload their pages via ftp ) but
> > have a need to add a footer to any page on your server it's not
> > easiest way :)
>
> In the multi-user environment, if you are reading the Apache
> materials you might also want to closely follow the parts regarding the
> security issues involved with SSI. I think they may overstate the overt
> hole that SSI represents, but still it is not something to be activated
> lightly, especially if your understanding of the webserver execution and
> operation environment is limited.
Surely, that way slowers the performance of web server much more
than SSI. But, that way is a good compromise between writing
apache module, which will footify pages ( without significant processor/
io overhead ) and use some scripts with artifical intelligence
which will footify these pages before requests to ones.
>
> > Really easiesh way is:
> >
> > AddHandler footers .html
> > Action footers /cgi-bin/footers.html
>
> I would change the suffix of /cgi-bin/footers.html to something
> such as .sh or .cgi, to avoid confusion ("Is this a web page, or is it a
> script?") The distributed srm.conf that comes in the
I tried that way on old apache 1.2.3 or so, and, if i changed the suffix
to .cgi - apache gets Content-Type: _not_ text/html. May be that is
fixed in newer versions - i did'nt tried it about halfyear.
--
Alexandre Snarskii
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