Try this site for additional information http://httpd.apache.org/docs/howto/cgi.html#environmentvariables
Mike Ni <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Thanks for the resoponse, It was written by a person who left already. Now, I need to find out how his code work. Do you happen to know where I can find out more about such %ENV? is there a web site or man page? I "google" "ww.apache.org", yet no luck. Pretty odd! I really have a hard time with www.apache.org/ Mike --- Wiggins d'Anconia wrote: > Mike Ni wrote: > > Hey everyone, > > > > > > While tracing through the perl script file, I kept > > > running into environment variable > "REQUEST_METHOD". > > > > Which is a little suspect, because you should be > using CGI.pm or > something better (not just similar) to hide the > wrangling of the > REQUEST_METHOD, etc. > > > > > I looked for where it was defined, yet no luck. > > However, it works. > > > > I think I am missing somethign here. > > I am guessing this variable is defined by > > the Apache web server. Yet, I am not sure. > > > > Nope not missing anything, you are correct Apache > sets a number of > environment variables that CGI programs can then > wrangle however they so > choose. The nice thing about CGI.pm is that it does > this for you and > provides a very clean Perl interface to it all. > > > Anyone see the same things? > > This does depend on the server implementation...... > > http://danconia.org > > -- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > For additional commands, e-mail: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > > __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Mail - More reliable, more storage, less spam http://mail.yahoo.com -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Mail - More reliable, more storage, less spam