diff -ru trunk.orig/docs/manual/mod/mod_proxy_balancer.xml trunk/docs/manual/mod/mod_proxy_balancer.xml
--- trunk.orig/docs/manual/mod/mod_proxy_balancer.xml	2006-06-14 13:51:57.000000000 -0400
+++ trunk/docs/manual/mod/mod_proxy_balancer.xml	2006-06-14 15:16:35.000000000 -0400
@@ -271,6 +271,47 @@
 
 </section>
 
+<section id="environment">
+    <title>Exported Environment Variables</title>
+    <p>At present there are 5 environment variables exported:</p>
+    
+    <!-- ============= BALANCER_SESSION_STICKY =============== -->
+    <dt><var><a name="balancer_session_sticky" id="balancer_session_sticky">BALANCER_SESSION_STICKY</a></var></dt>
+    <dd>
+    <p>This is assigned the <var>stickysession</var> value used in the current
+    request.  It is the cookie or parameter name used for sticky sessions</p>
+    </dd>
+
+    <!-- ============= BALANCER_SESSION_ROUTE ================ -->
+    <dt><var><a name="balancer_session_route" id="balancer_session_route">BALANCER_SESSION_ROUTE</a></var></dt>
+    <dd>
+    <p>This is assigned the <var>route</var> parsed from the current 
+    request.</p>
+    </dd>
+
+    <!-- ============= BALANCER_NAME ========================= -->
+    <dt><var><a name="balancer_name" id="balancer_name">BALANCER_NAME</a></var></dt>
+    <dd>
+    <p>This is assigned the name of the balancer used for the current 
+    request. The value is something like <code>balancer://foo</code>.</p>
+    </dd>
+
+    <!-- ============= BALANCER_WORKER_NAME ================== -->
+    <dt><var><a name="balancer_worker_name" id="balancer_worker_name">BALANCER_WORKER_NAME</a></var></dt>
+    <dd>
+    <p>This is assigned the name of the worker used for the current request.
+    The value is something like <code>http://hostA:1234</code>.</p>
+    </dd>
+
+    <!-- ============= BALANCER_WORKER_ROUTE ================= -->
+    <dt><var><a name="balancer_worker_route" id="balancer_worker_route">BALANCER_WORKER_ROUTE</a></var></dt>
+    <dd>
+    <p>This is assigned the <var>route</var> of the worker that will be 
+    used for the current request.</p>
+    </dd>
+
+</section>
+
 <section id="enable">
     <title>Enabling Balancer Manager Support</title>
     <p>This module <em>requires</em> the service of 
diff -ru trunk.orig/modules/proxy/mod_proxy_balancer.c trunk/modules/proxy/mod_proxy_balancer.c
--- trunk.orig/modules/proxy/mod_proxy_balancer.c	2006-06-14 13:52:23.000000000 -0400
+++ trunk/modules/proxy/mod_proxy_balancer.c	2006-06-14 15:10:33.000000000 -0400
@@ -389,6 +389,14 @@
         *worker = runtime;
     }
 
+    /* Add balancer/worker info to env. */
+    apr_table_setn(r->subprocess_env,
+                   "BALANCER_NAME", (*balancer)->name);
+    apr_table_setn(r->subprocess_env,
+                   "BALANCER_WORKER_NAME", (*worker)->name);
+    apr_table_setn(r->subprocess_env,
+                   "BALANCER_WORKER_ROUTE", (*worker)->s->route);
+
     /* Rewrite the url from 'balancer://url'
      * to the 'worker_scheme://worker_hostname[:worker_port]/url'
      * This replaces the balancers fictional name with the
@@ -399,6 +407,12 @@
     if (route) {
         apr_table_setn(r->notes, "session-sticky", (*balancer)->sticky);
         apr_table_setn(r->notes, "session-route", route);
+
+        /* Add session info to env. */
+        apr_table_setn(r->subprocess_env,
+                       "BALANCER_SESSION_STICKY", (*balancer)->sticky);
+        apr_table_setn(r->subprocess_env,
+                       "BALANCER_SESSION_ROUTE", route);
     }
     ap_log_error(APLOG_MARK, APLOG_DEBUG, 0, r->server,
                  "proxy: BALANCER (%s) worker (%s) rewritten to %s",