Re: CGI/1.0: last call
Rob McCool (robm@ncsa.uiuc.edu)
Sat, 4 Dec 1993 19:52:11 -0600
/*
* 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