On Thu, Jun 26, 2003 at 10:57:27AM -0700, Richard Crawford wrote: > I have a Perl script that I've written and which runs on a couple of > different web servers. Because the script rewrites some .html files that > call on cgi-scripts, the script needs to know the IP address of the > computer that it's running on. Is there an environmental variable or > something that I can call within Perl to find out the IP address so that I > don't have to manually recode it on each server?
If you are running in a CGI environment, then there are several env. vars you should be able to make use of: http://hoohoo.ncsa.uiuc.edu/cgi/env.html In particular, there are variables for discovering not only your server's IP address, but also its hostname, and the absolute URL path by which your script was accessed. > On a side note, the script I've written works, but it's clumsy and > inelegant. Is there anyone who'd be willing to look at my code and make > suggestions for cleaning it up? I'd be happy to. -Micah _______________________________________________ vox-tech mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.lugod.org/mailman/listinfo/vox-tech
