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From: "Steve van der Burg" <steve.vanderburg@lhsc.on.ca>
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Subject: Re: Simple program _setting_ REMOTE_ADDR
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>> Ack!  That was pretty stupid of me.  It doesn't explain why
>>     SetEnvIf Request_URI "/cgi-bin/VENDOR" REMOTE_ADDR=3D1.2.3.4
>> didn't work, but I can take that to the Apache folks.
>
>It's because mod_cgi sets the environment variable just before it
>runs the program (and thus overriding whatever you set before).
>
>A fixup handler to set the fake ip address (as you figured out) and
>possibly a loghandler to set remote_ip to the right address again is
>the way to go.

Thanks.  Between the help I got on the list, and a quick reading of some =
of the Apache source (esp. mod_cgi), I had a working solution up and =
running 90 minutes (!) after first deciding to attack the problem from =
that angle.

...Steve=20

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