Re: [Webware-discuss] os.environ oddities...

[Tracy S. R. <tr...@re...>]

On Monday, November 17, 2003, at 12:49 PM, Ian Bicking wrote:

>>> import os
>>> from WebKit.Page import Page
>>>
>>> class environ(Page):
>>> 	def writeContent(self):
>>> 		attrs = os.environ.keys()
>>> 		attrs.sort()
>>> 		self.write('<ul>\n')
>>> 		for attr in attrs:
>>> 			self.write('<li><b>%s</b>: %s</li>\n' % (attr, os.environ[attr]))
>>> 		self.write('</ul>\n')
>>
>> But this shows none of the regular information such as 'REMOTE_ADDR', 
>> 'HTTP_HOST', 'HTTP_REFERER', etc.  Has anyone had this happen to 
>> them?  I do get a 'REMOTEHOST' variable which shows what 
>> 'REMOTE_ADDR' used to show...
>
> You want self.request().environ() -- you are getting the environment 
> that the AppServer was created with, not the environment for the 
> specific request you are handling.

This did the trick.  Thanks!  It's amazing that after using Webware for 
so long that there are things here and there that I just plain forget...

--Tracy