Excellent question, and very easily doable. You want to look at the PerlTransHandler
http://perl.apache.org/docs/2.0/user/handlers/http.html#PerlTransHandler Issac Beginner wrote: > Hi, > > I hope this isn't a dumb question. > > I want to try and create a small REST style installation and was > considering how to overcome the problem of urls in the form > > http://www.myfactory.com/parts/1234 > > The resource after /parts could in theory be any number but you would > not want to have a <Location> for each part that existed. Rather > you'd want the handler responsible for /parts to check your db and > return either content or 400. > > On the face of it this is the sort of thing mod_perl should excel at. > Does it? Can you intercept requests like this one above? Which API > methods should I be looking at? > > TIA, > Dp.
