Re: SERVER_PORT environment variable... wrong?

[Aaron Bartell <aaronbartell@xxxxxxxxx>]

Haven't had that problem before, though I don't believe I've really used
that environment variable either.

Here's a program I developed that I use to "debug" environment variables
and/or http headers.

http://mowyourlawn.com/files/CGIDSPENVV.txt

Aaron Bartell
www.MowYourLawn.com/blog
www.OpenRPGUI.com
www.SoftwareSavesLives.com



On Tue, May 22, 2012 at 11:16 AM, Bradley Stone <bvstone@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> I was putting together an application for a client and planned on
> using the SERVER_PORT as part of the program to know if the requests
> were internal or external (ie port 80 is external, outside the LAN
> coming through the firewall) and something like port 81 is inside the
> LAN.
>
> So, created on instance that points to conf running port 80, and
> another instance that points to conf running port 81.
>
> Well, SERVER_PORT always returns port 80, no matter which server
> instance I'm connecting to.
>
> This is V5R4.  I verified the same thing happens on my machine which
> is also V5R4.
>
> Any ideas?  Thanks!
>
> Brad
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