Microsoft KB Archive/150041

= Environment Variables Returned by IIS via CGI =

Article ID: 150041

Article Last Modified on 6/23/2005

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APPLIES TO


 * Microsoft Internet Information Server 1.0

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This article was previously published under Q150041



We strongly recommend that all users upgrade to Microsoft Internet Information Services (IIS) version 6.0 running on Microsoft Windows Server 2003. IIS 6.0 significantly increases Web infrastructure security. For more information about IIS security-related topics, visit the following Microsoft Web site:

http://www.microsoft.com/technet/security/prodtech/IIS.mspx



SUMMARY
Custom environment variables will not be returned by Internet Information Server (IIS) via a CGI application.



MORE INFORMATION
The following environment variables are returned by IIS:

  AUTH_TYPE ComSpec GATEWAY_INTERFACE All HTTP_* variables CONTENT_LENGTH CONTENT_TYPE PATH PATH_INFO PATH_TRANSLATED QUERY_STRING REMOTE_ADDR REMOTE_HOST REMOTE_USER REQUEST_METHOD SCRIPT_NAME SERVER_NAME SERVER_PROTOCOL SERVER_PORT SERVER_SOFTWARE SystemRoot windir

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