Anonymous Monk has asked for the wisdom of the Perl Monks concerning the following question:

Hello,

I'm on Windows running IIS using Active State Perl

Since I'm not on apache, does this mean I can't use certain environmental variables?

I'm trying to receive the url the end user is currently requestion, so a little snippet of my code that prints nothing: 
my $url = $ENV{REQUEST_URI};
print "$url";  #prints nada!

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Ty

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Re: Request URI
by Joost (Canon) on Feb 11, 2007 at 04:30 UTC
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      I have seen a few tutorials on Environment Variables in Perl that show REQUEST_URI as a perl Environment Variable.
      They dont say anything about apache providing it and IIS not.

      I'm not saying Joost is wrong, but there may be some tutorials out there that are.

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Re: Request URI
by Khen1950fx (Canon) on Feb 11, 2007 at 14:48 UTC
    Try this:

    my $url = $ENV{'REQUEST_URI'};
print "$url";

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    Update: Oops.. I'm sorry, I was thinking in terms of Linux. Maybe Win32::Env could help.

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Re: Request URI
by EvanK (Chaplain) on Feb 12, 2007 at 16:23 UTC
    As Joost suggested, you may have to build it from other environment vars. To get a list of all the environment vars your install of IIS provides to perl, you could dump the %ENV hash to a file like so: 
    #!c:/perl/bin/perl -w

use strict;
use Data::Dumper;

open my $ENV_DUMP, '>', 'c:/iis_env.txt' or die $!;
print {$ENV_DUMP} Dumper(\%ENV);
close $ENV_DUMP;

print "Content-Type: text/plain\n\nSuccess!";

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    Of course, you want to run this through IIS, not the Windows command line.

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