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Common Gateway Interface (CGI) Variables
Code: CGI

    Client - variables relating to the client browser accessing the URL
    • CERT_ISSUER
    • CERT_SUBJECT
    • CLIENT_CERT_ENCODED
    • HTTP_ACCEPT
    • HTTP_IF_MODIFIED_SINCE
    • HTTP_REFERER - refering url
    • HTTP_USER_AGENT - browser used to retrieve the page = CCBot/1.0 (+http://www.commoncrawl.org/bot.html)
    Request - variables relating to the method of request
    • AUTH_TYPE
    • CONTENT_LENGTH - the legth in bytes of additional data (for example, post data)
    • CONTENT_TYPE - for example, post, get and head
    • PATH_INFO - url after the server name for the url
    • PATH_TRANSLATED - similar to path info but with any virtual directories translated
    • QUERY_STRING - the portion of the url following the "?" (for urls with a ?)
    • REMOTE_ADDR - IP address of client = 38.103.63.17
    • REMOTE_HOST - 38.103.63.17
    • REMOTE_USER -
    • REQUEST_METHOD
    • SCRIPT_NAME - path to a script to execute (for self referencing URLs)
    Server - variables relating to the web server
    • SERVER_NAME - server for the url
    • GATEWAY_INTERFACE - CGI version runing on the server
    • SERVER_PORT - port number to which the request was sent
    • SERVER_PROTOCOL
    • SERVER_SOFTWARE - web server software version running on the server


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