The variables below are normally set by CGI program execution and can be referred to in the .idq or .htx files.
Variables Available from CGI Parameters:
| HTTP Variable | Meaning |
|---|---|
| ALL_HTTP | All HTTP headers that were not already parsed into one of the listed variables. These variables are of the form
HTTP_header field name with each variable separated by \r\n, for example: HTTP_ACCEPT: */*, q=0.300, audio/x-aiff, audio/basic, image/jpeg, image/gif, text/plain, text/html
HTTP_USER_AGENT: Microsoft Internet Explorer/0.1 (Win32)
HTTP_REFERER: http://webserver/samples/dbsamp/dbsamp3.htm
HTTP_CONTENT_TYPE: application/x-www-form-urlenPRE: 10
HTTP_EXTENSION: Security/Digest |
| AUTH_TYPE | The type of authorization in use. If the user name has been authenticated by the server, this will contain Basic. Otherwise, it will not be present. |
| CONTENT_LENGTH | The number of bytes that the script can expect to receive from the client. |
| CONTENT_TYPE | The content type of the information supplied in the body of a POST request. |
| GATEWAY_INTERFACE | The revision of the CGI (Common Gateway Interface) specification with which this server complies. The current version is CGI/1.1. |
| HTTP_ACCEPT | Special-case HTTP header. Values of the Accept: fields are concatenated, separated by “,”; for example, if the
following lines are part of the HTTP header: accept: */*; q=0.1 accept: text/html accept: image/jpeg then the HTTP_ACCEPT variable will have a value of: */*; q=0.1, text/html, image/jpeg. |
| PATH_INFO | Additional path information, as given by the client. This comprises the trailing part of the URL after the script name but before the query string (if any). |
| PATH_TRANSLATED | This is the value of PATH_INFO, but with any virtual path name expanded into a directory specification. |
| QUERY_STRING | The information which follows the question mark (?) in the URL that referenced this script. |
| REMOTE_ADDR | The IP address of the client. |
| REMOTE_HOST | The hostname of the client. |
| REMOTE_USER | This contains the user name supplied by the client and authenticated by the server. |
| REQUEST_METHOD | The HTTP request method. |
| SCRIPT_NAME | The name of the script program being run. |
| SERVER_NAME | The server’s hostname (or IP address) as it should appear in self-referencing URLs. |
| SERVER_PORT | The TCP/IP port on which the request was received. |
| SERVER_PROTOCOL | The name and version of the information-retrieval protocol relating to this request, usually HTTP/1.0. |
| SERVER_SOFTWARE | The name and version of the Web server under which the Internet Server Extension is running. |