I wanted to let everyone know that I have ported <!-- #perl --> SSI tag support to Apache 2.0. it should behave under both prefork and threaded mpms, and work pretty much the same as it did in Apache 1.3, despite the fact that mod_include is now an output filter.
while the support is fairly complete, the code is a bit messy and can be refactored. however, I wanted to get something released for people to play with before I needed to move on to something else.
--Geoff
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NAME
Apache::IncludeHook - #perl Server Side Include support
SYNOPSIS
PerlModule Apache::IncludeHook
Alias /ssi /usr/local/apache/htdocs
<Location /ssi>
AddType text/html .shtml
AddOutputFilter INCLUDES .shtml
Options +Includes
</Location>DESCRIPTION
Apache::IncludeHook offers support for #perl tags in documents parsed by the mod_include engine included in the Apache 2.0 distribution. Supported formats include
<!--#perl sub="My::PrintArgs" -->
<!--#perl arg="fee" sub="My::PrintArgs" arg="fie" -->
<!--#perl arg="foe" sub="My::PrintArgs::handler" -->
<!--#perl arg="fum" sub="My::PrintArgs->method_handler" --> here
<!--#perl arg="I smell" sub="sub { my $r = shift; print @_ }" -->In Apache 1.3, mod_include supported #perl tags out of
the box. In 2.0, support for tags outside the standard
mod_include realm ('echo', 'flastmod', etc) have been removed,
having been replaced with an API that allows you to hook
your own functionality into mod_include's parsing engine.
The 'exec' tag is an example of one that is no longer natively
supported by mod_include - mod_cgi now supplies the base
implementaiton of this tag.The current hope with this module is simply to carry over #perl tag support from Apache 1.3 to 2.0. Apache::SSI-like support for custom tags will (possibly come later). keep in mind that while this module is not inteneded to replace the old Apache::SSI for Apache 1.3, because the new Apache 2.0 API includes a filtering mechansim, you already have the ability to post-process SSI tags via Perl (or C) output filters.
EXAMPLE
file.shtml:
perl <!--#perl arg="one" sub="My::PrintArgs" --> here
PrintArgs.pm:
package My::PrintArgs;
use Apache::RequestRec ();
use Apache::Const -compile => 'OK';use strict;
sub handler {
my ($r, @args) = @_;
print join ' ', '***', (join ' : ', @args), '***';
return Apache::OK;
}which is almost identical to what you would see with mod_perl 1.0, save the mod_perl 2.0 specific classes.
NOTES
This implementation is designed to hook into the mod_include that ships with Apache 2.0. It will not work with Apache 2.1.
This is alpha ware, subject to massive API changes. Meaning, the TIEHANDLE interface may go away and you may be forced to use only the (currently non-existent) filter interface. so get to know filters now before it's too late (they're really cool anyway).
FEATURES/BUGS
Subrequests are still a work in progress - they still don't seem to work properly from filters.
only print STDOUT and $r->print are supported. other methods of sending content to the client still need to be implemented.
AUTHOR
Geoffrey Young E<lt>[EMAIL PROTECTED]<gt>
COPYRIGHT
Copyright (c) 2003, Geoffrey Young
All rights reserved.
This module is free software. It may be used, redistributed and/or modified under the same terms as Perl itself.
