David Dyer-Bennet <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
I'm running into flakoid behavior in a script that uses Image::EXIF to
read file information under mod_perl (via Apache::Registry).
Sometimes, without throwing any error or setting the internal error
variable, Image::EXIF reads nothing from the file. I can't correlate
it with anything; a random string of reloads will start producing
different results at a random point.
Not solved yet; but setting the same script up as a CGI instead
(i.e. copying into /cgi-bin/), it works fine; whatever the problem is
it's definitely caused by running under mod_perl.
And now that I'm not changing the script so often, I see that it seems
to always (nearly always?) run correctly the first time after I change
it, and after that it mostly finds null EXIF data. I see a very
*very* rare case where it comes up with the right data, so it's not
100.00% failure on reload, but it's close.
Still looking for clues!
David, take a look at:
http://perl.apache.org/docs/1.0/guide/debug.html#Debugging_your_code_in_Single_Server_Mode
to avoid guessing. If you have a problem in your code, you will see it immediately on the second request.
Most likely it's the fault of the module that you are using. Perhaps it wasn't written in mind to run under mod_perl. I'd look there first. Look for globals first. Then see if there are initialized on each request. My guess is that this is your problem. Under mod_cgi you can't see that since there is no interpreter persistance. Take some time to read:
http://perl.apache.org/docs/1.0/guide/porting.html#Global_Variables_Persistence
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