Value

Description

ALL_RAW

All headers in raw form as sent by the client.

APPL_MD_PATH*

Retrieves the metabase path for the application.

APPL_PHYSICAL_PATH

Retrieves the physical path corresponding to the metabase path.

ASP_VERSION

Version number of the Sun Chili!Soft ASP server.

ASP_VERSION_MAJOR

The major version number of the Sun Chili!Soft ASP server.

ASP_VERSION_MINOR

The minor version number of the Sun Chili!Soft ASP server.

ASP_OS

The operating system the server is running on.

ASP_LICENSE

License information for the Sun Chili!Soft ASP server.

AUTH_PASSWORD

The password corresponding to REMOTE_USER as supplied by the client.

AUTH_TYPE

If the server supports user authentication and the script is protected, this is the protocol-specific authentication method used to validate the user.

AUTH_USER

Raw authenticated user name.

CERT_COOKIE*

Unique ID for the client certificate, returned as a string.

CERT_FLAGS*

bit0 is set to 1 if the client certificate is present. bit1 is set to 1 if the Certifying Authority of the client certificate is invalid (not in the list of recognized CA on the server).

CERT_ISSUER*

Issuer field of the client certificate.

CERT_KEYSIZE*

Number of bits in the Secure Sockets Layer connection key size, for example, 128.

CERT_SECRETKEYSIZE*

Number of bits in the server certificate private key, for example 1024.

CERT_SERIALNUMBER*

Serial number field of the client certificate.

CERT_SERVER_ISSUER*

Issuer field of the server certificate.

CERT_SERVER_SUBJECT*

Subject field of the server certificate.

CERT_SUBJECT*

Subject field of the client certificate.

CONTENT_LENGTH

The length of content as given by the client.

CONTENT_TYPE

The data type of the content in queries that have attached information, such as HTTP GET, POST, and PUT.

GATEWAY_INTERFACE

The revision of the CGI specification used by the server. Format: CGI/revision.

HTTP_<HeaderName>

The value stored in the header HeaderName. Any header other than those listed in this table must be prefixed by "HTTP_" for the ServerVariables collection to retrieve its value. The server interprets any underscore (_) characters in HeaderName as dashes in the actual header. For example, if you specify HTTP_MY_HEADER, the server searches for MY-HEADER.

HTTPS

Returns "on" if the request came in through a secure channel or "off" if the request is for a non-secure channel.

HTTPS_KEYSIZE

Number of bits in Secure Sockets Layer key size, for example, 128.

HTTPS_SECRET_KEYSIZE

Number of bits in the server certificate private key, for example, 1024.

HTTPS_SERVER_ISSUER

Issuer field of the server certificate.

HTTPS_SERVER_SUBJECT

Subject field of the server certificate.

INSTANCE_ID

The ID for the instance in textual format. If the instance ID is 1, it appears as a string. Under IIS you can use this variable to retrieve the ID of the Web-server instance (in the metabase) to which the request belongs.

INSTANCE_META_PATH*

The metabase path for the instance of IIS that responds to the request.

LOCAL_ADDR

Returns the Server Address on which the request came in. This is important on multi-homed machines where there can be multiple IP addresses bound to a machine and you want to find out which address the request used.

LOGON_USER

The Windows account the client user is logged into.

Note

Not supported by Sun Chili!Soft ASP for UNIX.

PATH_INFO

The extra path information, as given by the client. Scripts can be accessed by using their virtual path and the PATH_INFO server variable. If this information comes from a URL, it is decoded by the server before it is passed to the script.

PATH_TRANSLATED

A translated version of PATH_INFO that takes the path and performs any virtual to physical mapping.

QUERY_STRING

Query information in the string following the question mark (?) in the HTTP request.

REMOTE_ADDR

The IP address of the remote host making the request.

REMOTE_HOST

The name of the host making the request. If the server does not have this information, it will set REMOTE_ADDR and leave this empty.

REMOTE_USER

If the server supports user authentication and the script is protected, this is the username by which the user is authenticated.

REQUEST_METHOD

The method used to make the request. For HTTP, this would be GET, HEAD, POST, etc.

SCRIPT_NAME

A virtual path to the script being executed. This is used for self-referencing URLs.

SERVER_NAME

The server's host name, DNS alias, or IP address as it would appear in self-referencing URLs.

SERVER_PORT

The port number to which the request was sent.

SERVER_PORT_SECURE

A string that contains either 0 or 1. If the request is being handled on the secure port, then this will be 1; otherwise it will be 0.

SERVER_PROTOCOL

The name and revision of the information protocol. Format: protocol/revision.

SERVER_SOFTWARE

The name and version of the server software answering the request and running the gateway. Format: name/version.

URL

Gives the base portion of the URL.