I ran into this problem today. I am trying to develope a small
application server with a few handlers and Apache/1.3.22 .
So I have something that looks like this set up in the apache conf file:
<Location /somewhere>
<Limit GET POST HEAD>
Allow from all
</Limit>
PerlRequire "startup.pl"
SetHandler perl-script
PerlHandler AppServer
AuthName "AppServer"
AuthType Basic
PerlAuthenHandler AppServer::Auth
require valid-user
PerlAccessHandler AppServer::Access
</Location>
Now, you notice that these packages are all under the same namespace.
This, somehow, causes an 'Undefined subroutine &AppServer::handler
called.' each time the server recieves a request from a client. However,
if i move the main handler into another
namespace or simply rename it to foo.pm ( and adjust the apache conf
file of course ) the error magically disappears. If one of the access
handler or authentification handler is under the same namespace as the
main handler, i always get the undefined subroutine error msg.
I'm not sure why or how apache handles this or if it's a bug or if i'm
just too tired and missed something somewhere else. I would appreciate
someone's insight on this. Is it a bug / limitation /... ?
Thanks for your time,
Guillaume
