HTML Server Side Includes: echo

The general form of the SSI echo command is:

      <!--#echo var="variable"-->

where the variable is one of those from the list below. Be sure your page name ends in .shtml.

DATE_LOCAL

Displays the current local date and time at your server. For example, this command:

      <!--#echo var="DATE_LOCAL"-->

would be replaced by a date with a format something like:

      Friday, 28-Jul-2000 15:33:54 MDT

DATE_GMT

Displays the Greenwich Mean Time.

DOCUMENT_NAME

Displays the name of the document---just the file name.

DOCUMENT_URI

Displays the part of the document's Universal Resource Identifier (omitting the ``http://.../' part).

GATEWAY_INTERFACE

Displays the protocol for CGI (Common Gateway Interface) used on the page's server.

LAST_MODIFIED

Displays the date and time when the page was last changed.

SCRIPT_NAME

Displays the path of the script being executed.

SERVER_NAME

Displays the name of page's web server, such as www.nmt.edu.

SERVER_PROTOCOL

Displays the protocol used on the page's Web server (probably a type of HTTP, HyperText Transfer Protocol).

SERVER_SOFTWARE

Displays the name of the software used on the page's Web server.

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