Re: The %ENV{} hash...

[CountZero]

Do you by chance run this under mod_perl? For security reasons you then have an almost empty environment.

From the docs:

ENVIRONMENT

Under CGI the Perl hash %ENV is magical in that it inherits environment variables from the parent process and will set them should a process spawn a child. However, with mod_perl we're in the parent process that would normally setup the common environment variables before spawning a CGI process. Therefore, mod_perl must feed these variables to %ENV directly. Normally, this does not happen until the response stage of a request when PerlHandler is called. If you wish to set variables that will be available before then, such as for a PerlAuthenHandler, you may use the PerlSetEnv configuration directive:

PerlSetEnv  SomeKey  SomeValue

You may also use the PerlPassEnv directive to pass an already existing environment variable to Perl's %ENV:

PerlPassEnv SomeKey

[s_m_b]

Thanks for the replies and wisdom.
1) no, I'm running IIS.
2) no, just standard Activestate install of perl


I'd already run a foreach on the hash to find what was available, and there is a LOT of stuff there, most of which matches the VBSCript variables, just that the three ways of finding the login id don't see anything.
HOwever, I'll continue the hunt, armed with new knowledge!