On Wednesday 06 September 2006 16:26, Sumit Shah wrote: > Charles, > > Thanks for the information. I will surely take a look at mod_proxy in > detail. I believe I would still need to use mod_perl to invoke the perl > script I have to do the processing. > > So if I understand, I could use mod_proxy and mod_perl in conjunction > with each other. MOD_PROXY would provide me with filtering capabilities > while MOD_PERL would let me invoke perl script to do the processing. > Please correct me if I am wrong.
You do not need mod_perl to run perl scripts as CGI scripts. Mod_perl imbeds a persistent perl interpreter into apache, while for CGI scripts, the perl interpreter is started again with each request. You can use mod_proxy with or without mod_perl. Sean
