On 2013-09-25, ?????????? <nikos.gr...@gmail.com> wrote: > ???????? 25/9/2013 6:18 ????, ??/?? Grant Edwards ????????????:
>>> The Referer is not an environment variable. >> >> It is when you're writing a CGI app. >> >>> How would your shell know what URL you were just browsing? >> >> Because the HTTP server sets those environment variables before >> invoking the CGI app. > > So you mean that even if i run it via shell this stement will also > work If the shell was started by the HTTP server, yes. If you logged in normally, no. > because it happens to be in the same enviroment with the HTTP server? The shell will only have that environment if the shell was run by the HTTP server. > No need to run it via web browser and check the Apache's error log? You can set the environemnt variables appropriately in the shell and then invoke a CGI application directly for testing purposes. -- Grant Edwards grant.b.edwards Yow! I was born in a at Hostess Cupcake factory gmail.com before the sexual revolution! -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list