This problem of installing the SessionX patch when I was pointed to how to install
patches. It
works now! Thanks everyone for their help.
> On Thu, 2002-09-05 at 20:01, Dean Powers wrote:
>> I'm trying to install SessionX from CPAN. It fails, of course, and now I'm trying
>to modify
>> the MD5.pm file in per the following patch from May 26th.
>> Question. Exactly what part of this patch do I put in the MD5.pm file? What is @@
>-26,7 +26,7
>> @@? Why is there a minus sign in front of "use MD5".
>>
>> Why can't this get added to the CPAN so us Newbies don't have to do go in and patch
>files?
>>
>> I've added the part from "use strict; to the last "}" bracket but it doesn't work.
>>
>> Thanks for anyone's help. I really need to install SessionX.
>
> Rather then explain the patch process, it would be better/simpler to just install
>MD5 if you
> can. I just did a fresh install under Perl 5.8 and have 5.6.1 on my other servers
>and I have
> not had to batch any files in order to get it to work. The error that I got most
>recently that
> indicated I needed MD5 was misleading. The error that was reported via the server
>was that the
> error was in an Apache::Session handler, when in theory we expect it to die with a
>"Can't
> locate Snorkal.pm in @INC...." error message. This is due, I believe, to the nature
>in which
> the inheritance between the session modules work.
>
> Aaron Johnson
>
>>
>>
>> --- /tmp/MD5.pm Sun May 12 22:13:34 2002
>> > +++ /usr/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.6.0/Apache/SessionX/Generate/MD5.pm Sun May 12
>22:12:57 2002
>> > @@ -12,7 +12,7 @@
>> >
>> > use strict;
>> > use vars qw($VERSION);
>> > -use MD5;
>> > +use Digest::MD5;
>> >
>> > $VERSION = '2.1';
>> >
>> > @@ -26,7 +26,7 @@
>> > }
>> >
>> > $session->{data}->{_session_id} =
>> > - substr(MD5->hexhash(MD5->hexhash($arg || (time(). {}. rand().
>> $$))), 0, $length);
>> > + substr(Digest::MD5::md5_hex(Digest::MD5::md5_hex($arg || (time().
>> {}. rand(). $$))), 0, $length);
>> >
>> >
>> > }
>> >
>> >
>>
>>
>>
>> Dean Powers,
>> PriceObjects
>>
>>
>>
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