Fred Moyer wrote:
If you go to PHP, you should not expect a trouble free life :) I
don't have anything against PHP, but it has it's own set of
problems. With development in any language, you need to make sure
that you keep a tight hold on your versions. Using the latest
version of something isn't always the best move, as experience has
taught me. It's nice to try it out and report bugs back, and
helpful to the development of the project, but use the version
that works for you.
two webapps I use right now are running different sections under
mod_perl, php, and python.
by far, the biggest security issues i've had have been with php,
'versioning' issues with python, and programming with perl.
they'll all cost you the same amount of headache and time-- the
question is where are the issues going to be?
with most programmers, the php issues fall not on them, but on
someone who is stuck admining the server. so don't think you'll be
saving headaches overall. you just might be making your problem
someone elses.
On Oct 29, 2006, at 3:23 PM, Patrick Galbraith wrote:
I know, I'm just frustrated and venting after losing many hours of
dev time. The reason CGI won't work in my case is I've written all
this code as a handler and putting into CGI seems like it'd be a
lot of work. Maybe not, I'm not sure what I would have to change
since I rely so much on the request object.
he doesn't mean write it as a CGI, but to use CGI.pm
you can use any perl modules you want under mod_perl
just use CGI.pm, or formbuilder, or something else to handle parsing
your get post
in your mp handler, create a new parsing object, instantiate it with
$r, then stuff it in a pnote.
anytime you need to access form vars, just get the object out of the
pnote.
its not as fast as apr, but not significantly so -- and if you're
hitting a db at all during your request, the speed different is
completely irrelevant
When you say to use an earlier version of libapreq, do you mean
version 1.0? That won't work because all the linux dists I deal
with are ones with pre-packaged mod_perl2 and apache2 (but haven't
been able to get apreq to compile correctly against those pre-
package versions, trying everything from source).
try 1.07 / 1.08 both run for me on osx / freebsd / ubuntu
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