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Re: [MacPerl] Bizarre CGI Problem



On Mon, 18 Aug 1997, Richard Rathe wrote:

> On 8/14/97 Strider wrote:
> 
> >>We have used MacPerl CGIs for about a year with no problem. Last week one
> >>of them suddenly stopped working. There now seems to be problem with the
> >>%ENV environment variable:
> >>
> >>	$x = $ENV{'HTTP_REFERER'};
> >
> >This is just a bad hunch, but shouldn't that be 'HTTP_REFERRER' ?


   Ah, the answer to this one I know... apparently, the original
implimentation  of the ENV variables misspelled the word referrer as
referer. Some webservers correct the misspelling. Some retain it.


Robert Sweeney



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