# HG changeset patch
# User paulb
# Date 1124926947 0
# Node ID 775f29ad8c1a5836c859cd78dcfb9febc7e4c2aa
# Parent  f02ca65d7d7f8be06ffd0bcc381a40a38ec0a4ad
[project @ 2005-08-24 23:42:27 by paulb]
Added a note about AOLserver's apparent inability to deal with "URL
encoded" character values in paths.
Added a patch to deal with other AOLserver broken behaviour.

diff -r f02ca65d7d7f -r 775f29ad8c1a docs/Webware/NOTES.txt
--- a/docs/Webware/NOTES.txt	Wed Aug 24 23:41:51 2005 +0000
+++ b/docs/Webware/NOTES.txt	Wed Aug 24 23:42:27 2005 +0000
@@ -15,6 +15,9 @@
 Configuring in AOLserver
 ------------------------
 
+NOTE: AOLserver does not seem to handle "URL encoded" character values
+NOTE: properly when such values appear in the path before the query string.
+
 Ensure the presence of the following lines in your configuration file (eg.
 config.tcl):
 
@@ -29,6 +32,16 @@
 See docs/CGI/NOTES.txt for more information on AOLserver and CGI
 configuration.
 
+Patches for CGIAdapter when working with AOLserver
+--------------------------------------------------
+
+AOLserver appears to set empty CONTENT_LENGTH environment variable values. A
+patch for CGIAdapter.py in WebKit can be applied as follows (with a suitable
+relative path to WebStack from Webware/WebKit):
+
+cd Webware/WebKit
+patch -p0 < ../../WebStack/patches/Webware/WebKit/CGIAdapter.py.diff
+
 Authentication/Authorisation in Webware
 =======================================
 
@@ -117,8 +130,8 @@
 recommended that Webware releases beyond 0.8.1 are used together with the
 appropriate WebStack context mechanisms instead of using this plug-in scheme.
 
-In order to support such behaviour, the patches in the
-WebStack/patches/Webware/WebKit directory must be applied to WebKit:
+In order to support such behaviour, some patches must be applied to WebKit
+(with a suitable relative path to WebStack from Webware/WebKit):
 
 cd Webware/WebKit
 patch -p0 < ../../WebStack/patches/Webware/WebKit/Application.py-0.8.1.diff