Posted by Daniel Tryba on 07/01/05 14:41

somaboy mx <nosuch@fakemail.fk> wrote:
> I'm looking for a way to come up with clean urls like
> http://www.mysite.com/products/233 instead of
> http://www.mysite.com/products.php?pid=233 without having to rely on
> mod_rewrite or other server-specific solutions.

You could be lucky and have the first URL working (if the second one
already works (depending on httpd configuration (Apache Multiview
IIRC))) and find 233 in _SERVER['PATH_INFO']. But that still depends on
platform. Alternatively you could build an intelligent 404 handler which
should work on all platforms supporting dynamic 404 handlers (which I
guess is most), but again platform dependend.

Most likely to work out of the box is http://www.mysite.com/products.php/233.

But I guess there is no single guaranteed multiplatform solution.

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