Hi, I am devolping under webbrick and deploying to FCGI. None of this is a problem except that my organisation uses a homegrown PKI system that runs in Apache and forwards the uid to Rails in a CGI environment variable. I can access it using request.env[''HTTP_X_REMOTE_USER''] so that''s fine. The question is, how do I populate that variable in Webbrick to exercise the various parts of the application (viewers come in on HTTP with no HTTP_X_REMOTE_USER set , editors have it. Thanks Tom