You mean the Rack FastCGI Handler...

if that's the case, this fix works for me:

rack-1.0.0/lib/rack/handler/fastcgi.rb

48c48,55
<         env["QUERY_STRING"] ||= ""
---
>         if env["PATH_INFO"].to_s.empty? then
>            env["PATH_INFO"] = env["REQUEST_URI"].split('?')[0]
>         end
>
>         if env['QUERY_STRING'].to_s.empty? then
>            env['QUERY_STRING'] = env['REQUEST_URI'].scan(/.+?\?(.*)/).to_s
>         end
>




On Sat, Aug 29, 2009 at 3:06 PM, Yehuda Katz <wycats@gmail.com> wrote:

> That is definitely the intention. This should be fixed in the rack lighty
> adapter.
> -- Yehuda
>
>
> On Sat, Aug 29, 2009 at 3:17 AM, Martin Boese <boesemar@googlemail.com>wrote:
>
>>
>> On Fri, Aug 28, 2009 at 11:22 PM, Magnus Holm <judofyr@gmail.com> wrote:
>> >
>> > There is another know issue with Lighttpd:
>> http://github.com/rack/rack/blob/master/KNOWN-ISSUES
>> >
>> > Maybe they're related?
>> >
>> > //Magnus Holm
>>
>> Thanks, yes that sounds related.
>>
>> I was hoping that Rack will give me a standard set of environments no
>> matter in which technologie the applicaion is deployed at the end.
>> But I guess that should be fixed in Lighttpd's cgi implementation
>> instead...
>>
>> Martin
>>
>>
>> >
>> >
>> > On Fri, Aug 28, 2009 at 16:37, bones <boesemar@googlemail.com> wrote:
>> >>
>> >>
>> >> I am porting my application from ruby fcgi to rack which is in
>> >> production using the Lighttpd webserver.
>> >>
>> >> I noticed that lighttpd doesn't send PATH_INFO or QUERY_STRING so I
>> >> used to patch it by reconstructing it from REQUEST_URI. Now with Rack
>> >> I have exactly the same situation. Rack::Request.GET is empty. This
>> >> fix on the environment makes it working:
>> >>
>> >> class RackApp
>> >>
>> >>  def fix_env(ec)
>> >>       if (ec['PATH_INFO'].to_s.empty?) then
>> >>          pi =  ec['REQUEST_URI']
>> >>          pi = pi[0..(pi.index('?')-1)] if pi.include?('?')
>> >>          ec['PATH_INFO'] = pi
>> >>       end
>> >>
>> >>       if (ec['QUERY_STRING'].to_s.empty?) then
>> >>          ec['QUERY_STRING'] = ec['REQUEST_URI'].include?('?') ?
>> >>              ec['REQUEST_URI'].scan(/.?\?(.*)/)[0][0] :
>> >>              ""
>> >>       end
>> >>       ec
>> >>  end
>> >>
>> >>  def call(env)
>> >>    Rack::Request.new(fix_env(env))
>> >>   # [...]
>> >>  end
>> >> end
>> >>
>> >>
>> >> As far as I know Lighttpd and Rails (which used Rack?!) is a popular
>> >> combination - so I am quiet surprised that I don't find anything
>> >> related on the web. Especially - shouldn't that be implemented into
>> >> Rack's CGI/FastCGI Handler?
>> >>
>> >> Cheers,
>> >> Martin
>> >
>> >
>>
>
>
>
> --
> Yehuda Katz
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>