Re^2: OT: would this ENV setup make you blow your lid too?

[leocharre]

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[cees]

You do realize that when you run a perl script from a shell (ie from the command line) you will not get all of those standard CGI environment variables... It is the web server that sets those environment variables right before it executes the CGI script. When testing scripts from the command line you need to set those variables yourself, or use a module that can simulate a CGI environment like HTTP::Request::AsCGI

The fact that your TERM environment variable is set to xterm gives it away that you ran this from the shell.

[perrin]

Oh, this was supposed to be CGI environment. I didn't get that from your post.

Looks like the exec from your SSI just doesn't propagate the CGI environment variables, probably for security reasons. You might have better results using a #include virtual call to an actual CGI URL if your server supports it.

[derby]

So the ENV dump is from a cgi script via an HTTP request or the command line? (I'm still uncertain)