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Foil 9 Other Information in environment variables

From Introduction to CGI Programming ECS400 Spring 97 Senior Undergraduate Course -- Spring Semester 97. by Nancy J. McCracken *

The web server also makes available information about the user and the server, including such things as what type of browser made the request.
A list of environment variables available to the CGI program:
GATEWAY_INTERFACE REMOTE_HOST
SERVER_NAME REMOTE_ADDR
SERVER_SOFTWARE AUTH_TYPE
SERVER_PROTOCOL REMOTE_USER
SERVER_PORT REMOTE_IDENT
REQUEST_METHOD CONTENT_TYPE
PATH_INFO CONTENT_LENGTH
PATH_TRANSLATED HTTP_FROM
SCRIPT_NAME HTTP_ACCEPT
DOCUMENT_ROOT HTTP_USER_AGENT (browser)
QUERY_STRING HTTP_REFERER



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