Added PATH_INFO access from the request that allows urls like the following to be interpreted by rails: http://www.example.com/dispatcher.cgi/controller/action -- that makes it possible to use rails as a CGI under lighttpd and would also allow (for example) Rublog to be ported to rails without breaking existing links to Rublog-powered blogs. #728 [Jamis Buck]

git-svn-id: http://svn-commit.rubyonrails.org/rails/trunk@802 5ecf4fe2-1ee6-0310-87b1-e25e094e27de

actionpack/CHANGELOG

@@ -1,6 +1,8 @@
 *SVN*
 
-* Fixed that caching the root would result in .html not index.html
+* Added PATH_INFO access from the request that allows urls like the following to be interpreted by rails: http://www.example.com/dispatcher.cgi/controller/action -- that makes it possible to use rails as a CGI under lighttpd and would also allow (for example) Rublog to be ported to rails without breaking existing links to Rublog-powered blogs. #728 [Jamis Buck]
+
+* Fixed that caching the root would result in .html not index.html #731 [alisdair]
 
 
 *1.5.0* (24th February, 2005)

actionpack/lib/action_controller/request.rb

@@ -77,6 +77,10 @@ module ActionController
       (%r{^\w+\://[^/]+(/.*|$)$} =~ env['REQUEST_URI']) ? $1 : env['REQUEST_URI'] # Remove domain, which webrick puts into the request_uri.
     end
 
+    def path_info
+      env['PATH_INFO']
+    end
+
     def protocol
       env["HTTPS"] == "on" ? 'https://' : 'http://'
     end
@@ -86,7 +90,7 @@ module ActionController
     end
 
     def path
-      path = request_uri ? request_uri.split('?').first : ''
+      path = path_info ? path_info : ( request_uri ? request_uri.split('?').first : '' )
     end
 
     def port

actionpack/test/controller/request_test.rb

@@ -54,6 +54,12 @@ class RequestTest < Test::Unit::TestCase
     assert_equal "/", @request.path
   end
 
+  def test_path_info
+    @request.env["PATH_INFO"] = "/path/of/some/uri"
+    assert_equal "/path/of/some/uri", @request.path_info
+    assert_equal "/path/of/some/uri", @request.path
+  end
+
   def test_host_with_port
     @request.env['HTTP_HOST'] = "rubyonrails.org:8080"
     assert_equal "rubyonrails.org:8080", @request.host_with_port
@@ -67,4 +73,4 @@ class RequestTest < Test::Unit::TestCase
     @request.port = 81
     assert_equal "rubyonrails.org:81", @request.host_with_port
   end
-end
+end