Re: %ENV and $r->subprocess_env

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Jie Gao wrote:
> Hi All,
> 
> I have an odd situation, which I describe as follows:
> 
> I have an authentication handler and an authorisation handler for a site,
> configured as:
> 
> <Location /test>
> PerlOptions +SetupEnv
> Options +ExecCGI
> PerlAuthenHandler XXX::XXX->authen
> PerlAuthzHandler YYYY::YYYY->authz
> ....
> PerlOptions +SetupEnv
> ...
> ...
> </Location>
> 
> And there is a perl (CGI) script under it that prints out the environment.
> 
> When a user is authenticated, I want to set up a few variables in
> the environment. The problem is:
> 
> - if I use $r->subprocess_env($key => $value), the perl script will see the variables,
>   but the authorisation handler will not;
> - if I use $ENV($key => $value), the perl script will NOT see the variables, but
>   the authorisation handler will see them.

Jie, when saying 'it will not see', you mean *it* tries to read 
$ENV{$key}? If so use $r->subprocess_env($key) in your authorisation 
handler. Won't that work? Alternatively call $r->subprocess_env() in your 
authz handler and you should have %ENV populated then (but it's not 
efficient):
http://perl.apache.org/docs/2.0/api/Apache/RequestRec.html#C_subprocess_env_

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