How reliable are URIs like /index.php/seo_path
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I noticed, that sometimes (especially where mod_rewrite is not available) this path scheme is used:
http://host/path/index.php/clean_url_here
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This seems to work, at least in Apache, where index.php is called, and one can query the /clean_url_here part via $_SERVER['PATH_INFO']. PHP even kind of advertises this feature. Also, e.g., the CodeIgniter framework uses this technique as default for their URLs.
The question: How reliable is the technique? Are there situations, where Apache doesn't call index.php but tries to resolve the path? What about lighttpd, nginx, IIS, AOLServer?
A ServerFault question? I think it's got more to do with using this feature inside PHP code. Therefore I ask here.
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