Hi there, On Thu, 7 Aug 2003, Mustafa Tan wrote:
> script's name is A, and I execute the same script 20 > times subsequently there is no problem. But if I > execute B after A, and then execute A again, then I > have a problem and the problem is that there is a > socket error. This happens only on Windows machines. I > learnt that this is a common problem and that it is > because of threads. Making number of threads on apache > 1 solves the problem Sorry I know prcatically nothing about running Apache on Windows. Seems strange to me that anyone would do it... :) > Ok, here is the real question. Should I move to 5.8 > and if I should, what are the general issues that I > have to be careful about. One more thing is that, can > I run perl 5.8 with mod_perl 1.0? Is that possible, or > do I also have to move to mod_perl 2 and apache 2? You can run 5.8.x with mod_perl 1.x, the issue you will most likely meet involves character encoding. Check the archives of this List for more information. Look for "UTF-8" and/or "locale". Version 2 of Apache/mod_perl might enable you to address some of your threading problems on Windows, hopefully others will be able to tell you more than I can. 73, Ged.
