Geoffrey Young ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) said something to this effect on 03/15/2001:
> > Gene Dascher ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) said something to 
> > this effect on 03/15/2001:
> > > Well, with the subprocess_env(), I can see the key that I 
> > set in my cgi now,
> > > but the value that I set the key to is a Hash reference 
> > that I need to use
> > > in my cgi.  Unfortunately, all I get now is ENV{'TEST_VAR'} =
            ^^^
> > > HASH(0x860a278), and I can't pull my values out.
> > 
> > I'm running into this as well, but with a different Apache::Table
> > object. It seems that Apache::Table stringifies its values, which
> > makes it useless for applications like this.
> 
> pnotes is the way to go for non-string objects.  It is simple (unlike the
> Data::Dumper example) and cleans itself up at the end of each request, which
> is nice.

I was under the impression (see the underlined piece above) that
the original idea was to be able to access the environment
variable from outside mod_perl, specifically in a CGI script. If
that is not the case, then pnotes is the best way to go.

(darren)

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