Re: [cobalt-developers] cgiwrap and Environment Variables

[Sean Harrington <macgenius@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Thanks for the input, Robert, but the variable I want is definitely
DOCUMENT_URI as it returns the URI of the document that made the call
through SSI. Both REQUEST_METHOD and REQUEST_RUI give the URI of the
scirpt itself. These won't work. Any other ideas, or any good reasons that
cgiwrap won't return the ones needed?

- Sean

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On Mon, 27 Mar 2000, Robert G. Fisher wrote:

> > ...but it doesn't seem as though cgiwrap does a particularly thorough job
> > of passing environment variables, particularly $ENV{'DOCUMENT_URI'}, which
> > is used extensively in most CGI scripts to return a unique identifier for
> > SSI transactions.
> 
> I think you are looking for REQUEST_URI instead, this works
> in ScriptAliased directories, cgiwrap calls, and straight
> SSI.
> 
> The whole point of cgiwrap is to allow a CGI script to run
> with the permissions of a given user.  It also can be
> used to ensure that no one is executing a script/program
> that is setuid or setgid as well as disallow scripts to
> run at a userid below a certain level (default 10 thus
> disallowing a script to accidentally run as root if
> the admin slips up.)
> 
> It also can check the permissions, to disallow running
> group or world writeable files (After all, if they are
> writeable, how can you guarantee somoene hasn't replaced
> the code?)
> 
> You can also specify resource limits on how much any
> given CGI can consume from the server -- very handy,
> albeit, it would be nice to know what the cgiwrap
> distributed by Cobalt has since these options are
> via the configure script used at compile time.
> 
> This means you can specify maximum ram or file size
> each cgi instance can use.
> 
> Can also setup logs to go through syslog or directly
> to a file ( I believe a file is default on Cobalts)
> 
> 
> 
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> Robert G. Fisher		     NEOCOM Microspecialists Inc. 
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