>Number: 2546 >Category: documentation >Synopsis: A backward incompatibility wasn't noted in the 1.2 to 1.3 >upgrade notes. >Confidential: no >Severity: non-critical >Priority: medium >Responsible: apache >State: open >Class: doc-bug >Submitter-Id: apache >Arrival-Date: Thu Jul 2 13:20:01 PDT 1998 >Last-Modified: >Originator: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >Organization: apache >Release: 1.3.0 >Environment: Any. >Description: Some of our customers' CGI scripts broke when we upgraded to 1.3.0, because they used the REMOTE_HOST environment variable. Since we run with DNS lookups turned off, this disappeared in 1.3.0. Yet there is no mention of the change in http://www.apache.org/docs/upgrading_to_1_3.html They'll have to switch to using REMOTE_ADDR, but there should be a warning about that in the upgrade notes. It was certainly not previously clear that it was wrong to assume that REMOTE_HOST would always be set. >How-To-Repeat: Probably more than a few CGI scripts are affected by this. >Fix: Please add a mention of this problem in the upgrade notes. >Audit-Trail: >Unformatted: [In order for any reply to be added to the PR database, ] [you need to include <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> in the Cc line ] [and leave the subject line UNCHANGED. This is not done] [automatically because of the potential for mail loops. ]
