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Date: 25 Jul 2001 01:25:10 -0000
From: Jason Clark <jclark@ccpu.com>
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Subject: Environment variable REMOTE_USER ignored by browser.
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>Number:         8077
>Category:       os-linux
>Synopsis:       Environment variable REMOTE_USER ignored by browser.
>Confidential:   no
>Severity:       non-critical
>Priority:       medium
>Responsible:    apache
>State:          open
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>Class:          sw-bug
>Submitter-Id:   apache
>Arrival-Date:   Tue Jul 24 18:30:00 PDT 2001
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>Last-Modified:
>Originator:     jclark@ccpu.com
>Release:        1.3.12 (Unix) (Red Hat/Linux)
>Organization:
apache
>Environment:
Red Hat Linux Release 6.2 Kernal 2.2.14-5.0 on an i686
>Description:
Using a cgi script(PERL5.005_03 and TCL8.0) within a folder containing .htaccess (tried actual copy, soft link, and hard link) after three consequetive calls within the same directory, the environment variable REMOTE_USER is dropped by the browser and can no longer be accessed.  Tested this problem with I.E 5.0.2290 on a Win2000 and netscape-navigator-4.72-6 on a Linux Redhat6.0 machine.
>How-To-Repeat:
In perl- $thisuser = $ENV{"REMOTE_USER"};print "$thisuser";
In TCL- global env, set user $env(REMOTE_USER), puts "$user"
put these into three scripts in the same folder and on the third call setting the variable will fail.
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