04-10-2003, 09:56 PM I'm running Win98 with Apache (+PHP4 module
+ perl +MySQL) Lately I noticed the following: the file wich is
accessed by the URL http://localhost/index.php is also
accessable on http://localhost/index and also
http://localhost/index/as/many/dirs/as/I/want Has anyone any
idea how this is possible? I'm afraid of security lags that's
why I'm asking... Thanks in advance 04-12-2003, 05:55 AM Its the
apache 'lookback' feature , which does not I think have a proper
name as such ? anyway Basically if apache can not find the file
it is pointed at it will 'lookback' to the previous part of the
url and see if indeed that is a file , so with apache knows that
no_existy does not exist so it goes back to index/ which also
does not exist as a directory so it checks to see if index.html
or index.htm (or whatever your text/html mimes are) to see if
one of those exist , if it does it displays it. its useful for
search-engine friendly urls where you can use this 'feature' to
pass info in the URL without usin