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Error getting REMOTE_USER Environment Variable

Started by	Hobie Audet <Hobie.Audet@comcast.net>
First post	2014-02-20 09:53 -0500
Last post	2014-02-20 16:19 +0000
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  Error getting REMOTE_USER Environment Variable Hobie Audet <Hobie.Audet@comcast.net> - 2014-02-20 09:53 -0500
    Re: Error getting REMOTE_USER Environment Variable John Gordon <gordon@panix.com> - 2014-02-20 16:19 +0000

#66757 — Error getting REMOTE_USER Environment Variable

From	Hobie Audet <Hobie.Audet@comcast.net>
Date	2014-02-20 09:53 -0500
Subject	Error getting REMOTE_USER Environment Variable
Message-ID	<mailman.7186.1392908069.18130.python-list@python.org>

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I'm running the Abyss Web Server X1 (v 2.9.0.1) on a Windows XP Home 
(SP3) system and am using Python 3.3 for a scripting language.  I'm 
having a problem getting the environment variable 
"REMOTE_USER".  Here's the situation:

1.  I have created a user under Abyss.  The userid is "userxyz"..
2.  I have created a directory under htdocs called "Test" and using 
the Abyss console I have password protected it.
3.  In the "Test" directory, there is no "index.html" file but there 
is an "index.py" file, so that should get executed when I access the 
"Test" directory.
4.  If I start up my web browser and point it to "localhost/Test", I 
get challenged for user authentication, as I should.
5.  I enter the userid ("userxyz") and its password and click the 
"Log in" button.  Authentication succeeds.  So far, so good.
6.  The "index.py" script is launched.  It's only function (so far) 
is to fetch the "REMOTE_USER" environment variable and echo it back to me.
7.  What it echoes back is "userxyzuserxyz".  In other words, the 
REMOTE_USER value is repeated.

In case you're interested, here is the entire "index.py" script:

import os
userid =os.environ["REMOTE_USER"]
print("Content-type: text/html")
print()
print("<HTML><BODY>" + userid + "</BODY></HTML")

That's about as simple as anything could be.  The fact that the 
script is displaying anything at all indicates to me that my Python 
cgi support is installed correctly and that the script is being 
executed correctly.  By why the "REMOTE_USER" value is doubled is 
beyond my understanding.  Is this a bug in the os package that comes 
with Python 3.3?   Anybody got a fix for it?

By the way, if I try to fetch "AUTH_USER", I get the same problem.

Thanks in advance.

Hobie Audet

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From	John Gordon <gordon@panix.com>
Date	2014-02-20 16:19 +0000
Message-ID	<le59tn$im6$1@reader1.panix.com>
In reply to	#66757

In <mailman.7186.1392908069.18130.python-list@python.org> Hobie Audet <Hobie.Audet@comcast.net> writes:

> 7.  What it echoes back is "userxyzuserxyz".  In other words, the 
> REMOTE_USER value is repeated.

What username is recorded in the access_log file?

> executed correctly.  By why the "REMOTE_USER" value is doubled is 
> beyond my understanding.  Is this a bug in the os package that comes 
> with Python 3.3?   Anybody got a fix for it?

If there is a bug, it's much more likely to be in the webserver code that
sets the REMOTE_USER value.

-- 
John Gordon         Imagine what it must be like for a real medical doctor to
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