Matlock
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Hi there to all, hope you can help,
I'm writing a C program that needs to know Exactly what the User Typed in ie: a URL or IP number. Tryed environment vars PATH_INFO,& PATH_TRANSLATED, these returned NULL, REQUEST_URI not supported by my web server (Zeus), don't know where to go from here, if anyone can help it would be great.
I'm writing a C program that needs to know Exactly what the User Typed in ie: a URL or IP number. Tryed environment vars PATH_INFO,& PATH_TRANSLATED, these returned NULL, REQUEST_URI not supported by my web server (Zeus), don't know where to go from here, if anyone can help it would be great.
If you're using perl, you really only need this to see all the environment variables Zeus passes to your CGI...
#!/usr/bin/perl
print "Content-type: text/plain\n\n";
foreach $Key (keys %ENV) {
print "$Key = :$ENV{$Key}:\n";
}
exit;
#!/usr/bin/perl
print "Content-type: text/plain\n\n";
foreach $Key (keys %ENV) {
print "$Key = :$ENV{$Key}:\n";
}
exit;
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ASKER
I'm unable to grade tiago's answer as perhaps it would seem my question was not correctly phrased, I do not want to know who the Remote Host was but whether they accessed my site by typing its DNS or by its IP number into their browser, and as unlikely as this may seem, it is actually quite possible for my site.
"HTTP_HOST" is NOT the remote host!
"HTTP_HOST" provides exactly the information you want:
What host the user has typed in the URL.
"HTTP_HOST" provides exactly the information you want:
What host the user has typed in the URL.
ASKER
Appologies Tiago,
I misunderstood your response to my Question,
however regretably my server does not support this environment
variable. So I just don't have a clue where to go from here.
Hugh
I misunderstood your response to my Question,
however regretably my server does not support this environment
variable. So I just don't have a clue where to go from here.
Hugh
Try this (if you have not done it yet):
#!/bin/sh
echo "Content-type: text/plain"
echo
set
and take a look at what environment variables your server uses.
#!/bin/sh
echo "Content-type: text/plain"
echo
set
and take a look at what environment variables your server uses.
ASKER
Tiago, thankyou for your help but it would seem that my Web server doesn't support these environment variables.
I'm out of the office now for over a week so please dont think I'm ignoring any response from you.
Matlock
I'm out of the office now for over a week so please dont think I'm ignoring any response from you.
Matlock
Try writing a script that will print all environment variables and see if there is one you can use. (I can give you one in perl but not one in C).
If perl is OK then you can get one at:-
http://www.silkwood.co.uk/cgi-scripts/envir.pl
or run it at
http://www.silkwood.co.uk/cgi-bin/envir.pl
Perhaps it will help you.