URL Rewriting

by Stephen Johnston <pepe(at)gainsay.com>

Date:	Tue, 21 Mar 2000 10:07:41 -0800
To:	hwg-techniques(at)hwg.org
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Hello All-

	At one point, quite a while ago I believe, a person mentioned a way to 
make CGI calls appear to be normal URLs. Like 
http://www.domain.com/cgiFile.pl?fname=stephen&lname=johnston could be 
represented by http://www.domain.com/cgiFile.pl/stephen/johnston or 
*something* like that. I am not sure I have the specifics correct but that 
is the idea.
	Basically I inherited a site that uses perl extensively. Every page except 
the home page is called through a Perl file. Though not the way I would 
have designed it, it was fine until the client said "Make sure all the 
pages will be indexed by the search engines.", I am now trying to find a 
way not to say "Tough Sh*t" and instead offer her some solution.
	Any ideas?

-Stephen Johnston

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