Re: CGI/1.0: last call

robm@ncsa.uiuc.edu (Rob McCool)
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From: robm@ncsa.uiuc.edu (Rob McCool)
Date: Sat, 4 Dec 1993 19:52:11 -0600
In-Reply-To: rst@ai.mit.edu (Robert S. Thau)
       "Re:  CGI/1.0: last call" (Dec  4,  2:56pm)
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To: rst@ai.mit.edu (Robert S. Thau), john@math.nwu.edu,
        luotonen@ptsun00.cern.ch, phillips@cs.ubc.ca, sanders@bsdi.com
Subject: Re:  CGI/1.0: last call
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/*
 * Re:  CGI/1.0: last call  by Robert S. Thau (rst@ai.mit.edu)
 *    written on Dec  4,  2:56pm.
 *
 * A belated minor request --- it would be good if there were an environment
 * variable which contained the IP address of the remote host (in addition to
 * REMOTE_HOST, which as I read the spec, is just the DNS hostname).  Perhaps
 * REMOTE_HOSTADDR would do.
 * 
 * This would allow scripts to easily use all the same authentication criteria
 * as the http servers themselves allow, including criteria based on subnet
 * masking, which may not be reflected in the DNS structure.
 */

Updated.

--Rob