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Intuitive navigation (pathcontext)

`Description'
This context is implicitly called when the cgi-bin call has a PATH_INFO component, See section CGI called with PATH_INFO. The PATH_INFO environment variable is available in the pathname parameter. The name of the catalog to browse and other parameters are extracted from the pathcontext_params instruction found in the catalog.conf configuration file, See section Catalog configuration file. The pathname parameter is converted to a category id using the catalog_path_<name> table. Finally, the cbrowse context is called for the category. It must be noted that the results are not paginated when browsing a catalog in this way. This restriction is meant to simplify the implementation, in particular for dumping the catalog in HTML pages. The handling of symbolic links is different when browsing with pathcontext. With cbrowse the symbolic links are displayed as normal sub categories. For instance, if /a/b contains a symbolic link to /c, browsing /a/b to go in /c will show the full path name /a/b/c. When browsing with pathcontext, going to /c will show the full path name /c. In other words symbolic links retain their original full path name when browsing with pathcontext.
`Template file'
See section cbrowse_root.html. See section cbrowse.html.


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