David, did you apply all the patches? I'm not able
to rebuild the module for apache 1 from a clean
checkout. (and in order to get a working 'configure'
i have to rebuild it with aclocal and autoconf)

 -- Massimo

On Sun, 9 Sep 2007 19:37:21 +0200, David Welton wrote
> > Here are fresh patches against trunk.
> 
> I've gone ahead and committed them.
> 
> > 4.src/apache-2/mod_rivet.c
> > Changed a bit Rivet_ParseFileArgString a bit, it fixed segfaults, but
> > still needs some work.
> > I've added apr_pool_t pointer to parameters we are passing to function.
> > I think we should go away from malloc/calloc usage to apr_*
> > equivalents, (It is a subject to discuss).
> 
> Most of the code in the apache 2 mod_rivet.c file is from Eckhard
> Lehmann  <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, who did the initial work and then abandoned
> it.  You should not consider it as something that must be there, or
> must work the way it does.  You are indeed correct that where 
> possible you should use either the apr_* functions, or the Tcl 
> functions (be careful of mixing the two).  His code, truth be told,
>  looks kind of messy - you should investigate what things apr_* 
> gives you, as well as consider using anything from this that helps out:
> 
> http://httpd.apache.org/apreq/
> 
> Things like this:
> 
> /*
>  * Rivet_IsRivetFile(char*)
>  *
>  * small helper function to get the file type. Returns 1 if
>  * the file ends with .rvt, 0 otherwise.
>  */
> static int
> Rivet_IsRivetFile (char *filepath)
> {
>     char *fileCopy = (char*) malloc((strlen(filepath)+1) * 
> sizeof(char));    char *cPtr;
> 
>     strcpy (fileCopy, filepath);
>     cPtr = fileCopy + (strlen(fileCopy) - 3);
> 
>     if (*(cPtr-1) != '.') {
>         char *ePtr = fileCopy + (strlen(fileCopy) - 1);
>         while (*ePtr-- != '?')
>             ;
>         ePtr++;
>         *ePtr = '\0';
>         cPtr = ePtr - 3;
>     }
> 
>     if (strcmp (cPtr, "rvt") == 0) {
>         return RIVET_FILE;
>     }
>     else if (strcmp (cPtr, "tcl") == 0) {
>         return TCL_FILE;
>     }
> 
>     return 0;
> }
> 
> Just look a bit dodgy to me.  In Rivet for Apache 1.3, these things
> are handled by Apache, as they should be:
> 
> AddType application/x-httpd-rivet .rvt
> AddType application/x-rivet-tcl .tcl
> 
> Of course, maybe I'm missing something, but... I'm just saying - feel
> *very* free to improve things as you see fit!
> 
> > Module successfully builds on OpenBSD and Debian for me,  it is able
> > to puts "<b>Hello World<b>" , still there's a lot of work left.
> 
> Cool!
> 
> -- 
> David N. Welton
> http://www.welton.it/davidw/
> 
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