[Catalyst] Environment Variables

[Stephen Sykes]

Ashley wrote:
> On Feb 27, 2008, at 2:39 PM, Ryan Pack wrote:
>> Hello all.  First time posting here.  J
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>> I’m trying to get at $ENV{HTTP_REFERER} from my catalyst app but it 
>> doesn’t seem to be there.  In fact the only keys that exist in %ENV 
>> are CATALYST_ENGINE and PERL5LIB.  Are the others being wiped out 
>> somehow?  Not sure if this is normal Catalyst behavior.  Thanks!
>>
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> That info is in $c->request->referer _when_ it's present. Generally 
> you want to avoid the ENV stuff, though I believe there is a plugin to 
> get at it if you really need some part of it not already exposed.
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> -Ashley
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Funny, I just happened to have that cpan page open - 
http://search.cpan.org/~mramberg/Catalyst-Runtime-5.7012/lib/Catalyst/Request.pm