I knew my first post to this mailing list had to be stupid. ;-)
On 11/11/04 2:21 PM, "Tom Schindl" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Mark S Lowe wrote:
> I have a need to create my own suffix and hijack the output for page
> rendering code, and then re-output the page with my own OK. I have the
> O’Reilly book “Practical mod_perl” and there is a great example of
> this on page 114 in Chapter 4. However, the example is incomplete. The
> example suggests that we can intercept the request for a page, remove
> all the HTML tags, and re-output the page. This isn’t exactly what I
> want to do, but it will server as a great architecture for my needs.
>
> I’ve got my <Files> directive working perfectly in httpd.conf, but now
> I need some help intercepting the page request event, re-rendering the
> page, and then outputting it. I imagine this is like a three line
> explanation, but I can’t seem to find it anywhere. I imagine it
> something like this:
>
> PerlModule MyPlatform::Converter
> <Files ~ "\.(pla)$">
> SetHandler perl-script
> PerlHandler MyPlatform::HTML2TextConverter MyPlatform::
> HTMLContentGenerator
> </Files>
>
> I just don’t know how to grab the HTML page text once it gets to my
> module. STDIN doesn’t have it. So where is it?
>
> Suggestions?
>
> Thanks!
>
> Mark
Well you have to read the file yourself:
package MyPlatform::HTML2TextConverter MyPlatform:: HTMLContentGenerator;
sub handler {
# .....
my $content;
local $/ = undef;
open( READFILE, |$r->filename| );
$content = <READFILE>;
close( READFILE );
# ...
}
