How can I get system environment variables from a servlet?

Created May 4, 2012

Alex Chaffee

Short answer: you can't :-( See http://www.jguru.com/jguru/faq/view.jsp?EID=11422

However, you can read the equivalent of most of the CGI environment variables from the ServletRequest object. See http://www.jguru.com/jguru/faq/view.jsp?EID=11699

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