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Accessing WSGI environment variables by Kenshi Kawaguchi
- Re: [flask] Accessing WSGI environment variables by Drew Vogel

Accessing WSGI environment variables

From:: Kenshi Kawaguchi
Date:: 2011-03-22 @ 00:02

According to the mod_wsgi docs (
http://code.google.com/p/modwsgi/wiki/ConfigurationGuidelines) it looks like
environment variables set using SetEnv in Apache are not accessible using
os.environ,

Any such variables added using the SetEnv directive will be automatically
> added to the WSGI environment passed to the application when executed.
> Note that the WSGI environment is passed upon each request to the
> application in the 'environ' argument of the application object. This
> environment is totally unrelated to the process environment which is kept in
> 'os.environ'. The SetEnv directive has no effect on 'os.environ' and there
> is no way through Apache configuration directives to affect what is in the
> process environment.
>


What's the best way to access these variables through Flask?

Thanks,

Re: [flask] Accessing WSGI environment variables

From:: Drew Vogel
Date:: 2011-03-22 @ 00:48

On Mon, Mar 21, 2011 at 7:02 PM, Kenshi Kawaguchi <kenshi@recurse.ca> wrote:

> According to the mod_wsgi docs (
> http://code.google.com/p/modwsgi/wiki/ConfigurationGuidelines) it looks
> like environment variables set using SetEnv in Apache are not accessible
> using os.environ,
>
> Any such variables added using the SetEnv directive will be automatically
>> added to the WSGI environment passed to the application when executed.
>> Note that the WSGI environment is passed upon each request to the
>> application in the 'environ' argument of the application object. This
>> environment is totally unrelated to the process environment which is kept in
>> 'os.environ'. The SetEnv directive has no effect on 'os.environ' and there
>> is no way through Apache configuration directives to affect what is in the
>> process environment.
>>
>
>
> What's the best way to access these variables through Flask?
>
>
The WSGI environ parameter is available as Request.environ. For more info
see the Werkzeug documentation:

http://werkzeug.pocoo.org/docs/wrappers/#werkzeug.wrappers.BaseRequest.environ

Drew Vogel