what page is my visitor on (CGI variable?)

When my script is activated, I'd like it to know what the page URL is ...

[jcmoon]

I've got a pretty good idea how CGI environment variables work, and what I can get from them. But my pages are all mod_rewritten using .htaccess, so it seems all I can get is the script URL the visitor is accessing (i.e. /cgi-bin/script.cgi?var1=value1&var2=value2).

I want my script to find out what specific page the user has loaded. Aside from adding a &url= field in all of my .htaccess rules and recreating the URL within the rule from there, how can I accomplish this?

Is there a CGI environment variable for the path & filename, before it was mod_rewritten?

[rocknbil]

Did you try $ENV{REQUEST_URI}?

I'm using mod_rewrite also and get the requested URI /Some_Name, which rewrites to somescript.cgi?some=ugly&query=string, are you doing mod_rewrite backwards?

[jcmoon]

Oh wow, yes. And I admit, I was about to start doing the "reverse" mod-rewrite, appending the URL pattern at the end of the?some=ugly&query=string&url=long-$1-url_$2_pattern

now, I needn't do that anymore. You have just made my job, much simpler. Thanks!