I'm using Apache/1.3.11 with mod_perl/1.22 on an AIX platform to serve
as an
application server, with persistent ties into a MySQL database.
My company is using an in-house socket API for data transfers. The
request
messages in our API are somewhat similiar to an HTML GET request, in
that
we use tagged, delimited fields (pipe delimited instead of & delimited).
I have written a socket server gateway to act as a protocol converter,
to convert
our API's requests into HTML GET's (and also convert the HTML output
into our
API's response format).
My question is this. Is it possible using mod_perl for me to
incorporate the protocol
conversion into Apache itself? In other words, can I strip out the need
for HTML
headers, and rewrite the format of GET requests to comply with our
proprietary API?
I don't know if this is something that I can do through mod_perl, or if
I will have to
dig deeper into C and recompile a new server.
Any help or ideas will be mucho appreciated!
Thanks,
Brian Burke
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
