[vox-tech] Perl question: determining the computer's IP address

[Tim Riley]

Richard Crawford wrote:

> I have a Perl script that I've written and which runs on a couple of
> different web servers.  Because the script rewrites some .html files that
> call on cgi-scripts, the script needs to know the IP address of the
> computer that it's running on.  Is there an environmental variable or
> something that I can call within Perl to find out the IP address so that I
> don't have to manually recode it on each server?

Apache should set the server IP address in the HTTP_HOST variable.

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