On 25 May 2001, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>
> > On 24 May 2001, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> ..
> > > I have a web site where *everything* is mod_perl handlers. The problem that I'm
> > > seeing is that I will go to the url http://hostname/foo and I get the content
> > > from http://hostname/bar
> > >
> > > This seems to be happening when there is a server error of some variety, and
> > > from then on, until a server restart, users are just getting whatever the last
> > > thing was that that Apache child served. I have not been able to completely
> > > verify this, but I am consistently getting the same (wrong) content from a
> > > particular child, so apparently the particular child just keeps giving me
> > > whatever it served the last time.
>
> > On Fri, 25 May 2001 10:31:09 +0800 (SGT), Stas Bekman said:
> > looks like
> > http://perl.apache.org/guide/porting.html#Exposing_Apache_Registry_secret
> > http://perl.apache.org/guide/porting.html#Sometimes_it_Works_Sometimes_it
>
> We're not doing anything with Apache::Registry. Everything is with Perl
> handlers. It always seemed to me that the problems described at those locations
> were specific to Apache::Registry. So you're saying that if a Perl handler
> module falls over for some reason, that child will continue serving the last
> content it served, forever? This strikes me as a bad thing.
It's quite possible if you happen to create closures in your "dispatch"
handler for example. It's a bad thing :)
> Anyways, all of the possible reasons listed there are not, as far as we can
> tell, going on in our code. Everything is 100% OO, nothing is global or
> exported, and everything uses strict and warnings. Perhaps I'm misunderstanding
> when things actually pass out of scope in a mod_perl environment.
>
> Since almost all of the availble documentation seems to be about using
> Apache::Registry, rather than about writing handlers, it's not always clear
> whether things like this necessarily translate to both.
I'd switch to a single server mode first thing first. Do you see the same
behavior with httpd -X?
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