# The following was supposedly scribed by
# Smylers
# on Thursday 29 July 2004 01:56 am:
>> This allows you to access the documentation for all installed modules
>> and scripts via your browser ... � if anybody knows of similar
>> scripts, I would like to hear about them.
>
>Apache::Perldoc does this (though it requires mod_perl, not just a
>CGI-enabled web server).
From reading the Apache::Perldoc source, it is exactly as the documentation
claims "A simple mod_perl handler".
That's essentially what my perldoc was yesterday morning, before I added the
index generation, regex name-search and etc.
As Rich says in his documentation "a lot of other people have been doing this
for ages." If this is the case, why is pod2html being run on a pipe via a
system command (hey, I do it to.) Seems that it needs to be properly
modularized, rather than the current "do this" front-end:
use Pod::Html;
pod2html @ARGV;
Then, maybe a cgi front-end and mod-perl front-end could share the same
features (and become secure?)
I still haven't figured out where the source to search.cpan.org is.
--Eric
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