Request Variable

Your A5W pages have access to a system object named Request that contains valuable information. The server creates this object for each client request and can be accessed directly by your applications.

Note: Request variables are local to the page (script) and must be passed to any functions defined on the page.

The following variables will be available for all client requests:

Property	Description
Request.Headers	The headers of the request in a CR-LF delimited list.
Request.Body	The body of the request, will be empty for a GET.
Request.HTTP_Request	The first line of the request headers, which tells the server what file to retrieve and how to retrieve it.
Request.Host	The hostname that this request was sent to. Request.Host will always exist if the client uses HTTP/1.1, but it may not if the client uses HTTP/1.0.
Request.Query_String	The query string of a GET request, such as "foo=bar&this=that".
Request.Raw	The complete raw request received by the server.
Request.Remote_Addr	The IP address of the remote client making the request. Do not attempt to use Request.Remote_Addr as a unique identifier for the session. Use Session ID instead. AOL users share one or two IP addresses.
Request.Request_Method	The request method, such as "GET" or "POST".
Request.Request_URI	The requested file including any GET query string, such as "/index.html?foo=bar&this=that".
Request.Script_Name	The requested file, such as "/index.html" (the currently running page).
Request.Server_Protocol	The protocol used by the request, such as "HTTP/1.1" or "HTTP/1.0".
Request.Variables	A dot variable containing all variables sent from the client. This is a combination of GET variables, POST variables and cookies.

Additionally, the following properties may be available, depending on the request made by the client. If your application uses any of these, it should use an EVAL_VALID() first to make sure they have been defined.

Variable	Description
Request.Accept	The MIME types that the client can accept.
Reqest.Accept_Encoding	Types of transfer encoding accepted by the client.
Request.Accept_Language	Languages that the client is configured to accept.
Request.Connection	The connection type requested by the client, such as "Keep-Alive".
Request.Cookie	A string containing all cookies sent by the client.
Request.Referer	Contains the URL of the page from which the user came.
Request.User_Agent	A string identifying the software used on the client to send this request.

Supported By

Alpha Five Version 6 and Above