French, Shawn wrote: > Although this is working right now, I don't know enough [ anything? :) ] > about Apache or mod_perl to be sure that this will work in the future.
I can't see how it could be working now, unless it is actually creating a new Telnet object on every request. Your %sessionHash is not shared between processes and you have no control over which process will handle any request. You're probably opening new telnet connections from each apache process. > What > I am really concerned about is that the telnetObj will only be accessible > from scripts run by the same child process as that which created and saved > it. That won't work, since you can't control which process will handle requests from the client. > Is there a better way to do this? You could write a web server in Perl, which would run a separate persistent process for each client on a different port. Randal wrote a column about that: http://www.stonehenge.com/merlyn/WebTechniques/col23.html You could also use this technique to make a sort of telnet server, and hide that server behind Apache/mod_perl, i.e. clients talk to mod_perl which talks to the telnet server. Of course the simplest approach would be to just let each Apache process open telnet sessions as needed. - Perrin
