On Oct 26, 2006, at 6:02 PM, Patrick Galbraith wrote:
Thanks much! I did find Apache2::Request. I'm really a bit lost
with all the changes in mod_perl2 and libapreq2. It seems, at least
to me, that version 1.0 of both seemed a bit more simple and
concise whereas now is a bit scattered as to what modules do what.
I don't understand why libapreq2 is separate from mod_perl. Before,
I could do:
sub handler {
my $r = @_;
my $form = $r->param
hm. i had no idea. never used the 1.x branch
Something as basic as obtaining the form parameters seem like
something that not require a separate module. I don't understand
why this was changed. If I was a newbie who had never done mod_perl
programming and had no dogmatic allegiance to perl, I'd be lost,
and probably end up coding in PHP.
libapreq is mostly an apache module that provides a c library, not a
perl one. it ships with / is popular for the Perl glue it provides.
i *believe* its being mostly split and migrated into apache core and
mp2, but i could be wrong. someone else here will chime in,
you don't need libapreq to get to the post data. there are a ton of
modules that do that in pure perl (like the cgi series, and others )
libapreq / Apache2::Request just does it fastest -- and handles it as
$r->param
I've had to really hunt around for information and hack around to
get things to work. It seems many linux distributions do a poor job
of packaging mod_perl/libapreq2 in such a way that it works out-of-
the-box.
i think it works out of the box on freebsd only ( thanks AGAIN to
Philip )
if you use ubuntu, you can get it to work off the global (or whatever
its called ) ports tree , just by switching sources for apt-get.
its a damn nightmare to do in suse/redhat/debian -- you're better off
building from source on those platforms.
its poorly maintained in most ports trees though. usually its only
on the distros that a big site that runs it uses. apache2/mod_perl2/
libapreq2 is an often forgotten system.
i think its half because everyone is hyped up over php/rails, and
half that its geared for dedicated servers (not shared ones). yet
its still one of the fastest and most stable frameworks around (which
is why smart people use it).
// Jonathan Vanasco
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