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SSI Environmental Variables

The following table provides a reference to SSI environmental variables. You can use these variables in the Echo command, and as part of the condition for the Show and Hide commands. You can also use the WebSTAR API parameters for such useful features as the MIME type requested, servers's domain name, path to the file on the disk, free memory available and so on. For details, see the WebSTAR API Parameter Definitions .

Environmental Variables  

Parameter Name

Description

Sample Value

CONTENT_LENGTH

Form posting info to SSI page: length of posted data

1024

CONTENT_TYPE

Form posting info to SSI page: Type of information sent to server.

application/x-www-form-urlencoded

DATE_GMT

The current date/time, GMT.

1997/10/31:00:45:10

DATE_LOCAL

The current local date/time.

1997/10/30:16:45:10

DOCUMENT_NAME

The document`s path and filename.

Mac HD:webstar:widgets:blue.html

DOCUMENT_URI

The URL of the document

/widgets/blue.html

GATEWAY_INTERFACE

The CGI or API version the server uses

WebSTAR API (version 1)

HTTP_ACCEPT

MIME Types browser can accept

image/gif, image/x-xbitmap, image/jpeg, image/pjpeg, */*

HTTP_REFERER

The document the user just came from.

http://www.starnine.com/default.html

HTTP_USER_AGENT

The name and version of the user`s browser.

Mozilla/4.03 (Macintosh; I; PPC)

LAST_MODIFIED

Date and time the document was last modified or created.

1997/10/21:11:29:07

PATH_INFO

Text of the path arguments, after the $ character in the URL.

sales%20territory

PATH_TRANSLATED

Decoded path arguments, after the $ character in the URL.

sales territory

QUERY_STRING

Text of the search arguments, after the $ character in the URL.

sample=region%201&name=pat

QUERY_STRING_UNESCAPED

Decoded search arguments, after the $ character in the URL.

sample=region 1&name=tina

REMOTE_ADDR

Client's IP address

192.168.24.16

REMOTE_HOST

Client host name, if "use DNS" is turned on, otherwise, the IP address

leslie.domain.com

192.168.24.16

REMOTE_USER

User name as passed by the browser

Obsolete

REQUEST_METHOD

The request method

GET

SCRIPT_NAME

Path of the requested URL

/cgi-bin/myscript.cgi

SERVER_NAME

The server host name

www.domain.com

SERVER_PORT

The port number used

80

SERVER_PROTOCOL

The HTTP version used by the server

HTTP/1.0

SERVER_SOFTWARE

Name and version of your servers's software.

SERVER_SOFTWARE: WebSTAR/4.0 ID/55512


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