Re: setting environment variables

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colin_e wrote:
> Geoff,
>    I ran into some weirdness in this area (on a Win XP machine running 
> Apache 2.0.52)
> that seemed to be related to using lowercase environment variable names. 
> It looked as if
> PerlSetEnv uppercased the variable names, whereas SetEnv just ignored 
> vars with lower
> case names.
> 
> Sounds weird I know, and I didn't pin it down exactly, but try uppercase 
> variables and
> see if this works for you.

That's probably due to the differences of how perl and Apache interpret 
environ on win32. mod_perl really calls perl's funcs to get the env. I'm 
sure if you try that on the command line (plain perl) you will see the 
same behavior. something like:

setenv foo bar (whatever it is on win32)
perl -le 'print $ENV{FOO}'

on unix that won't work, but on win32 it should print 'bar'.

I believe Randy has mentioned this before.

How does mp1 deals with that?

Randy?


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