On Tue, Jan 08, 2002 at 10:07:18AM -0600, Stathy G. Touloumis wrote:
>
> >I've just started learning modperl and I started with a simple module
> >for apache httpd 1.3.22.
> >This simple module (see below) sets & gets a cookie at every request.
> >I thought it wasn't too difficult. I put it into the fixup phase (any
> >problem with it?).
> >First it seemed to work, but when I put a 'print STDERR' line in it, I
> >saw that my script ran many times on one request.
>
> What is your interpretation of 'one' request? Remember, when requesting a
> url there may be 'many' requests that go along with it for loading images
> and other media.
>
> If you don't want to set/get cookie for every request try filtering based
> on $r->content_type. But, your handler will still be called for every
> request : )
Apache provides configuration tools that can help. PerlFixupHandlers
can be placed within a <Location> or <LocationMatch> container. For
example:
<LocationMatch "^/myapp/.*html$">
will insure that your fixup handler is only called on requests that
start with "/myaap/" and end with ".html".
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