diff --git a/IkiWiki/CGI.pm b/IkiWiki/CGI.pm
index 28020b500..f2a32a958 100644
--- a/IkiWiki/CGI.pm
+++ b/IkiWiki/CGI.pm
@@ -283,7 +283,7 @@ sub check_banned ($$) {
 
 	foreach my $b (@{$config{banned_users}}) {
 		if (pagespec_match("", $b,
-			ip => $ENV{REMOTE_ADDR},
+			ip => $session->remote_addr(),
 			name => defined $name ? $name : "",
 		)) {
 			$banned=1;
diff --git a/IkiWiki/Plugin/attachment.pm b/IkiWiki/Plugin/attachment.pm
index ce688ca40..216e00b3d 100644
--- a/IkiWiki/Plugin/attachment.pm
+++ b/IkiWiki/Plugin/attachment.pm
@@ -58,7 +58,7 @@ sub check_canattach ($$;$) {
 			$config{allowed_attachments},
 			file => $file,
 			user => $session->param("name"),
-			ip => $ENV{REMOTE_ADDR},
+			ip => $session->remote_addr(),
 		);
 	}
 
@@ -185,7 +185,8 @@ sub formbuilder (@) {
 			IkiWiki::disable_commit_hook();
 			IkiWiki::rcs_commit($filename, gettext("attachment upload"),
 				IkiWiki::rcs_prepedit($filename),
-				$session->param("name"), $ENV{REMOTE_ADDR});
+				$session->param("name"),
+				$session->remote_addr());
 			IkiWiki::enable_commit_hook();
 			IkiWiki::rcs_update();
 		}
diff --git a/IkiWiki/Plugin/blogspam.pm b/IkiWiki/Plugin/blogspam.pm
index c4e5cf390..8db3780e8 100644
--- a/IkiWiki/Plugin/blogspam.pm
+++ b/IkiWiki/Plugin/blogspam.pm
@@ -58,6 +58,7 @@ sub checkconfig () {
 
 sub checkcontent (@) {
 	my %params=@_;
+	my $session=$params{session};
 	
  	if (exists $config{blogspam_pagespec}) {
 		return undef
@@ -88,7 +89,7 @@ sub checkcontent (@) {
 	push @options, "exclude=stopwords";
 
 	my %req=(
-		ip => $ENV{REMOTE_ADDR},
+		ip => $session->remote_addr(),
 		comment => defined $params{diff} ? $params{diff} : $params{content},
 		subject => defined $params{subject} ? $params{subject} : "",
 		name => defined $params{author} ? $params{author} : "",
diff --git a/IkiWiki/Plugin/comments.pm b/IkiWiki/Plugin/comments.pm
index d1558001a..4770209c9 100644
--- a/IkiWiki/Plugin/comments.pm
+++ b/IkiWiki/Plugin/comments.pm
@@ -402,8 +402,8 @@ sub editcomment ($$) {
 		$username =~ s/"/"/g;
 		$content .= " username=\"$username\"\n";
 	}
-	elsif (defined $ENV{REMOTE_ADDR}) {
-		my $ip = $ENV{REMOTE_ADDR};
+	elsif (defined $session->remote_addr()) {
+		my $ip = $session->remote_addr();
 		if ($ip =~ m/^([.0-9]+)$/) {
 			$content .= " ip=\"$1\"\n";
 		}
@@ -514,7 +514,8 @@ sub editcomment ($$) {
 			IkiWiki::rcs_add($file);
 			IkiWiki::disable_commit_hook();
 			$conflict = IkiWiki::rcs_commit_staged($message,
-				$session->param('name'), $ENV{REMOTE_ADDR});
+				$session->param('name'),
+				$session->remote_addr());
 			IkiWiki::enable_commit_hook();
 			IkiWiki::rcs_update();
 		}
@@ -603,7 +604,8 @@ sub commentmoderation ($$) {
 				my $message = gettext("Comment moderation");
 				IkiWiki::disable_commit_hook();
 				$conflict=IkiWiki::rcs_commit_staged($message,
-					$session->param('name'), $ENV{REMOTE_ADDR});
+					$session->param('name'),
+					$session->remote_addr());
 				IkiWiki::enable_commit_hook();
 				IkiWiki::rcs_update();
 			}
diff --git a/IkiWiki/Plugin/editpage.pm b/IkiWiki/Plugin/editpage.pm
index 3ba6c519e..a8e75121f 100644
--- a/IkiWiki/Plugin/editpage.pm
+++ b/IkiWiki/Plugin/editpage.pm
@@ -403,7 +403,8 @@ sub cgi_editpage ($$) {
 			disable_commit_hook();
 			$conflict=rcs_commit($file, $message,
 				$form->field("rcsinfo"),
-				$session->param("name"), $ENV{REMOTE_ADDR});
+				$session->param("name"),
+				$session->remote_addr());
 			enable_commit_hook();
 			rcs_update();
 		}
diff --git a/IkiWiki/Plugin/lockedit.pm b/IkiWiki/Plugin/lockedit.pm
index 1466e8337..5b50fd115 100644
--- a/IkiWiki/Plugin/lockedit.pm
+++ b/IkiWiki/Plugin/lockedit.pm
@@ -38,7 +38,7 @@ sub canedit ($$) {
 	if (defined $config{locked_pages} && length $config{locked_pages} &&
 	    pagespec_match($page, $config{locked_pages},
 		    user => $session->param("name"),
-		    ip => $ENV{REMOTE_ADDR},
+		    ip => $session->remote_addr(),
 	    )) {
 		if ((! defined $user ||
 		    ! IkiWiki::userinfo_get($session->param("name"), "regdate")) &&
diff --git a/IkiWiki/Plugin/moderatedcomments.pm b/IkiWiki/Plugin/moderatedcomments.pm
index ff2c2b160..5957833fc 100644
--- a/IkiWiki/Plugin/moderatedcomments.pm
+++ b/IkiWiki/Plugin/moderatedcomments.pm
@@ -48,11 +48,11 @@ sub checkcontent (@) {
 	}
 
 	my $session=$params{session};
-	my $user=$session->param("name") if $session;
+	my $user=$session->param("name");
 	if (pagespec_match($params{page}, $config{moderate_pagespec},
 			location => $params{page},
 			(defined $user ? (user => $user) : ()),
-			(defined $ENV{REMOTE_ADDR} ? (ip => $ENV{REMOTE_ADDR}) : ()),
+			(defined $session->remote_addr() ? (ip => $session->remote_addr()) : ()),
 	)) {
 		return gettext("comment needs moderation");
 	}
diff --git a/IkiWiki/Plugin/passwordauth.pm b/IkiWiki/Plugin/passwordauth.pm
index baddca093..35ebd961f 100644
--- a/IkiWiki/Plugin/passwordauth.pm
+++ b/IkiWiki/Plugin/passwordauth.pm
@@ -297,7 +297,7 @@ sub formbuilder (@) {
 					),
 					wikiurl => $config{url},
 					wikiname => $config{wikiname},
-					REMOTE_ADDR => $ENV{REMOTE_ADDR},
+					remote_addr => $session->remote_addr(),
 				);
 				
 				eval q{use Mail::Sendmail};
diff --git a/IkiWiki/Plugin/poll.pm b/IkiWiki/Plugin/poll.pm
index 6bc4579c2..e50efa5e0 100644
--- a/IkiWiki/Plugin/poll.pm
+++ b/IkiWiki/Plugin/poll.pm
@@ -136,7 +136,8 @@ sub sessioncgi ($$) {
 			IkiWiki::disable_commit_hook();
 			IkiWiki::rcs_commit($pagesources{$page}, "poll vote ($choice)",
 				IkiWiki::rcs_prepedit($pagesources{$page}),
-				$session->param("name"), $ENV{REMOTE_ADDR});
+				$session->param("name"),
+				$session->remote_addr());
 			IkiWiki::enable_commit_hook();
 			IkiWiki::rcs_update();
 		}
diff --git a/IkiWiki/Plugin/remove.pm b/IkiWiki/Plugin/remove.pm
index d23b2cc10..b664cbf74 100644
--- a/IkiWiki/Plugin/remove.pm
+++ b/IkiWiki/Plugin/remove.pm
@@ -214,7 +214,8 @@ sub sessioncgi ($$) {
 					IkiWiki::rcs_remove($file);
 				}
 				IkiWiki::rcs_commit_staged(gettext("removed"),
-					$session->param("name"), $ENV{REMOTE_ADDR});
+					$session->param("name"),
+					$session->remote_addr());
 				IkiWiki::enable_commit_hook();
 				IkiWiki::rcs_update();
 			}
diff --git a/IkiWiki/Plugin/rename.pm b/IkiWiki/Plugin/rename.pm
index 0da90a538..977c09e67 100644
--- a/IkiWiki/Plugin/rename.pm
+++ b/IkiWiki/Plugin/rename.pm
@@ -350,7 +350,9 @@ sub sessioncgi ($$) {
 			}
 			IkiWiki::rcs_commit_staged(
 				sprintf(gettext("rename %s to %s"), $srcfile, $destfile),
-				$session->param("name"), $ENV{REMOTE_ADDR}) if $config{rcs};
+				$session->param("name"),
+				$session->remote_addr(),
+			) if $config{rcs};
 
 			# Then link fixups.
 			foreach my $rename (@torename) {
@@ -575,8 +577,8 @@ sub fixlinks ($$$) {
 					$file,
 					sprintf(gettext("update for rename of %s to %s"), $rename->{srcfile}, $rename->{destfile}),
 					$token,
-					$session->param("name"), 
-					$ENV{REMOTE_ADDR}
+					$session->param("name"),
+					$session->remote_addr(),
 				);
 				push @fixedlinks, $page if ! defined $conflict;
 			}
diff --git a/IkiWiki/Receive.pm b/IkiWiki/Receive.pm
index ae1bd8bef..fdd463025 100644
--- a/IkiWiki/Receive.pm
+++ b/IkiWiki/Receive.pm
@@ -57,7 +57,6 @@ sub test () {
 	eval q{use CGI};
 	error($@) if $@;
 	my $cgi=CGI->new;
-	$ENV{REMOTE_ADDR}='unknown' unless exists $ENV{REMOTE_ADDR};
 
 	# And dummy up a session object.
 	require IkiWiki::CGI;