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docs: Clarify CGI meta-variables terminology in env.xml (bz 70095)

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The introductory paragraph incorrectly implied that HTTP defines
environment variables. Reword to accurately describe the relationship:
RFC 3875 defines meta-variables (many derived from HTTP headers), and
httpd exposes them as environment variables.


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<section id="cgi">
<title>CGI environment variables</title>
<p>The CGI specification (<rfc section="4.1">3875</rfc>) defines a number of environment
variables that expand on those defined by the HTTP spec.
These have been adopted more broadly, and are a standard
<p>The CGI specification (<rfc section="4.1">3875</rfc>) defines a
number of meta-variables, many of which derive their values from
HTTP request headers. Apache httpd makes these available as
environment variables to CGI scripts and other request-processing
mechanisms. These have been adopted more broadly, and are a standard
part of passing information between the browser and the
server, and between processes on the server side. Here we
discuss a few of these. For the complete list of request