Posted by M. Sokolewicz on 02/11/05 19:16

or, you could use a 404-errorHandler, and have it parse the URL that
caused it couldn't find ;) (that's what I use occasionally)


Richard Lynch wrote:
> Brian Dunning wrote:
>
>>I see URLs formatted like this:
>>
>> http://tinyurl.com/xyz
>>
>>How do you read that "xyz," since there's no "/?x=" preceding it? Is it
>>not a get parameter?
>
>
> If you can't do mod_rewrite you can use:
> http://tinyurl.com/index.php/xyz
> with:
>
> <?php echo $_SERVER['PATH_INFO'];?>
>
> I use it all the time, especially to pass parameters to dynamic images and
> PDFs so that Microsoft Internet Explorer (various versions) can't screw
> up.
>
> BAD: http://example.com/dynamic_pdf.php?record_id=1
> GOOD: http://example.com/dynamic_pdf.php/record_id=1/fool_ie.pdf
>

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