Hi, Wiggins d'Anconia: > This is going to depend on the web server, as it is the software parsing > the HTTP request, it just passes execution to the CGI and sets up the > environment before hand. So it is up to the web server software to set > in the environment the extra headers, you should check the documentation > for it. It appears that Apache, if you use it, should be passing through > the additional headers with an 'HTTP_' prepended but there is no > guarantee. Docs: > > http://hoohoo.ncsa.uiuc.edu/cgi/env.html > > "In addition to these, the header lines received from the client, if > any, are placed into the environment with the prefix HTTP_ followed by > the header name. Any - characters in the header name are changed to _ > characters. The server may exclude any headers which it has already > processed, such as Authorization, Content-type, and Content-length. If > necessary, the server may choose to exclude any or all of these headers > if including them would exceed any system environment limits." > > Which is linked from: > > http://httpd.apache.org/docs/howto/cgi.html#environmentvariables > > Which is (obviously) specifically for Apache.
Yes, I'm using Apache, and your solution works! Thank you very much! Best Regards, Shu Cao -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <http://learn.perl.org/> <http://learn.perl.org/first-response>
