[Dancer-users] working with HTTP env vars

[Olaf Alders]

On 2010-08-19, at 3:27 PM, P Kishor wrote:

>>> As far as your setup goes, you may want to at least consider something like this:
>> 
>> http://advent.plackperl.org/2009/12/day-12-maps-multiple-apps-with-mount-and-urlmap.html
>> 
>> "The environment variables such as PATH_INFO and SCRIPT_NAME are automatically adjusted so it just works like when your application is mounted using Apache's mod_alias or CGI scripts. Your application framework should always use PATH_INFO to dispatch requests, and concatenate with SCRIPT_NAME to build links."
>> 
>> This should get you pretty much to the same place, but with the added advantage of being able to use Plack's debug panels etc.
>> 
>> Hope this helps,
>> 
> 
> wow! That Plack advent calendar is brilliant. I am learning a lot from
> it, however, I am not sure it helps me. Since I am already using
> Dancer, I am "supposed" to be shielded from dealing with Plack
> directly, no? In other words, (from the quote above), Dancer should
> give me access to PATH_INFO and SCRIPT_NAME, etc. Which is precisely
> what I want.


Could you post a dump of your request->env ?
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