Charles Bueche wrote: > Hi Geoffrey, > > I own your book, and wasn't aware of this recipe.
there's lots of stuff in there people just don't know about :) > > I find this method a bit complicated, until now, my module was pure > perl. But if this is the only way... > yeah, it pretty much is. essentially, each C module's directives are private to themselves... unless you make them publically available through an api. of course, you could write your C access handler in perl, even with custom directives - that would give you full access in perl. or you could write your C access handler in C in XS land and offer a perl api for your fixup handler. an example of that is something like this http://search.cpan.org/dist/Apache-IncludeHook/ note the BOOT section in IncludeHook.xs - that's pretty much the same as writing the module in C, and it gives you the opportunity to offer a perl api. for an example of that, see http://search.cpan.org/dist/Apache-SSLLookup/ combine the two and you could be all set... or just write your access handler in perl and be done with it :) if it's custom directives in httpd.conf you want, see this http://www.modperlcookbook.org/~geoff/modules/experimental/Apache-Template-2.00_01.tar.gz and some of the other Apache2 modules on CPAN. > Thanks anyway for your hint. sure :) > > BTW : do you prepare a 2.x version of the cookbook ? I think that's unlikely at this point - everyone has far less tuits these days than we did back in 2000 :) > I find it a great resource, I learned a lot from it. thanks. --Geoff
