Re: trouble with path_info

2001-02-13 Thread Matt Sergeant
On Tue, 13 Feb 2001, Pierre Phaneuf wrote: > Now, I do not completely understand this. Am I right when I say that > nothing on the filesystem is needed to locate a handler? > IMHO, a handler should be able to get its path_info resolved > without any filesystem access (thus, without any dependen

Re: are there any missing modules?

2001-02-14 Thread Matt Sergeant
On Wed, 14 Feb 2001, Stas Bekman wrote: > Well, I've finally have cracked this tedious task down. I've pretty much > done with the modules chapter for the book (of course I didn't document > all of them, it'll require a separate book if I did. but quite many are > documented). > > So please take

Re: Is *anybody* running perl 5.6, modperl_1.25, apache_1.3.17 &PHP 4.0.4pl1 OK ?

2001-02-14 Thread Matt Sergeant
On Wed, 14 Feb 2001, tim fulcher wrote: > Hi > > finally build PHP4 as > > ./configure --with-apxs=/export/tools/apache/bin/apxs > --prefix=/export/tools --with-ldap --disable-xml \ > --with-sablot=/export/tools/Sablot-0.44 ^ This is most likely your probl

Re: Is *anybody* running perl 5.6, modperl_1.25, apache_1.3.17 & PHP4.0.4pl1 OK ?

2001-02-14 Thread Matt Sergeant
On Wed, 14 Feb 2001, tim fulcher wrote: > Matt Sergeant wrote: > > > On Wed, 14 Feb 2001, tim fulcher wrote: > > > > > Hi > > > > > > finally build PHP4 as > > > > > > ./configure --with-apxs=/export/tools/apache/bin/apxs > &

Re: Interested in writing for the O'Reilly Network?

2001-02-14 Thread Matt Sergeant
Plus don't forget, if you'd rather not be paid, and/or have previously published articles, take23 is always looking for article content :-) On Mon, 12 Feb 2001, Schuyler Erle wrote: > The O'Reilly Network is looking for a few good mod_perl hackers to share > their expertise with the readers of w

Re: are there any missing modules?

2001-02-15 Thread Matt Sergeant
On Thu, 15 Feb 2001, Stas Bekman wrote: > Quoting Matt Sergeant <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > > On Wed, 14 Feb 2001, Stas Bekman wrote: > > > > > Well, I've finally have cracked this tedious task down. I've pretty > > much > > > done

Re: cron for mod_perl?

2001-02-15 Thread Matt Sergeant
On Thu, 15 Feb 2001, Ask Bjoern Hansen wrote: > On Wed, 14 Feb 2001, Perrin Harkins wrote: > > > On Wed, 14 Feb 2001, Pierre Phaneuf wrote: > > > I guess two persons "simpler" aren't always the same: I find it easier > > > laying out a table and querying it than hacking something to fiddle with >

Re: are there any missing modules?

2001-02-15 Thread Matt Sergeant
= Apache::MimeXML > DESCRIPTION mime encoding sniffer for XML files > CPAN_USERID MSERGEANT (Matt Sergeant <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>) > CPAN_VERSION 0.09 > CPAN_FILEM/MS/MSERGEANT/AxKit-1.2.tar.gz > DSLI_STATUS bdpf (beta,developer,perl,functions) >

Re: cron for mod_perl?

2001-02-15 Thread Matt Sergeant
On Thu, 15 Feb 2001, Perrin Harkins wrote: > Maybe we should add process scheduling into Apache, and a file system, and > a window manager, and... :-) > Okay, I'm being silly, and there are times when duplication is necessary, > but cron is such a well-established way of solving this problem th

Re: Difference between NN and IE

2001-02-16 Thread Matt Sergeant
On Fri, 16 Feb 2001, G.W. Haywood wrote: > Hi there, > > On Fri, 16 Feb 2001, Scott Alexander wrote: > > > Why is it Netscape displays the pop up authenticate window when the > > user enters the wrong password. But Internet Explorer displays my > > 401.html page if I return an AUTH_REQUIRED; from

Re: [OT] re:advocacy at perl.com

2001-02-16 Thread Matt Sergeant
On Fri, 16 Feb 2001, Paul wrote: > Hi, all. > Nothing really new here -- just thought I'd note that perl.com has "a > budget to burn" and an open invitation for anything perl related. > Please see below; I repost the perl.com mailing in it's entirety > (please forgive the size, but I hate plagiar

Re: [OT] re:advocacy at perl.com

2001-02-16 Thread Matt Sergeant
On Fri, 16 Feb 2001, Gunther Birznieks wrote: > At 10:25 AM 2/16/01 -0500, DeWitt Clinton wrote: > >On Fri, Feb 16, 2001 at 03:14:37PM +0000, Matt Sergeant wrote: > > > > > I wonder if I should write them an article about take23, and then > > > use the fun

[ANNOUNCE] AxKit 1.3

2001-02-16 Thread Matt Sergeant
to become a workable reality. Taglibs allow you to do things like: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] AxKit Rocks! Matt, I just wanted to say that I think AxKit is really cool! Thanks! Sending Mail failed: Kip Hampton has put a lot of work in with me to ma

Re: [OT] HTTP/1.1 client support using LWPng

2001-02-24 Thread Matt Sergeant
On Wed, 21 Feb 2001, Simon Rosenthal wrote: > Slightly off topic... > > I am considering using the LWPng (HTTP/1.1) client code for an app where > we could gladly use both of the HTTP/1.1 features that it offers: > persistent connections (the client and server are separated by 7 time zones > and

[Take23] In search of new articles...

2001-03-01 Thread Matt Sergeant
Its been a rather slow period in the mod_perl world lately, but here at Take23 we are still looking for those articles of interest. Specifically we'd like to hear from people interested in writing about the following subjects: - Template Toolkit - Authentication - Mason, EmbPerl or AxKit - Da

Re: Passing control from one apache module to another

2001-03-01 Thread Matt Sergeant
On Thu, 1 Mar 2001, Michael Turley wrote: > Hello, > > I am writing an apache perl module which logs HTTP > environment variables. This is fine for static content > (html, images) but is a problem for dynamic content > such as php. > > I want my module to process the required HTTP > variables

RE: security!

2001-03-01 Thread Matt Sergeant
On Thu, 1 Mar 2001, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > This is a general Unix webserver issue and not specific to > > mod_perl, so I've marked your message [OT] for off-topic. > > Well, workarounds are available for specific webserver environments, so I > don't believe it's an inappropriate questi

RE: security!

2001-03-02 Thread Matt Sergeant
On Thu, 1 Mar 2001, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > I used to believe that too, but now that I've developed > > applications that make rather extensive use of the Apache API, I would > > actually love to have an environment similar to CGI but > > providing the full > > Apache API, including logging

Re: [H/OT] time to vote

2001-03-03 Thread Matt Sergeant
On 3 Mar 2001, Randal L. Schwartz wrote: > > "Stas" == Stas Bekman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > Stas> I guess I've missed Paul, sorry Paul. Anyway the voting is > Stas> compulsory :) > > Vote early, vote often. > > http://www.stonehenge.com/merlyn/WebTechniques/col43.html > > :-) > > THE P

Re: $query->path+info is not what i thought it would be

2001-03-03 Thread Matt Sergeant
On Sat, 3 Mar 2001, Andrew Clark wrote: > Hi, could someone PLEASE help! > > I am trying to write a script that if accessed through > > http://server/script/ > > would produce HTML, where-as: > > http://server/script/wap/ > > would produce WML. > > > That all worked fine until i converted

Re: Apache, mod_perl, mysql, php segfault!

2001-03-05 Thread Matt Sergeant
On Mon, 5 Mar 2001, Michael Turley wrote: > Hello, anyone come across a problem where they get > "exit signal Segmentation fault (11)" when they try to > connect to mysql via mod_perl? This is a known issue IIRC. Simply re-compile PHP without the built-in MySQL support (you can still connect to

Re: [OT] JMS-like event framework for Perl

2001-03-10 Thread Matt Sergeant
On Sat, 10 Mar 2001, Michael A. Nachbaur wrote: > Since today seems to be "The Day of the Off Topic(tm)", I thought I'd jump > in with my question. > > Is there a event messaging framework available for Perl, similar to JMS? > I'd like to be able to have an object registered as a handler for cer

Re: [OT] Client Certificate Authentification module?

2001-03-13 Thread Matt Sergeant
On Tue, 13 Mar 2001, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > I am looking for a module that will allow me to use Client > Certificates to authenticate the users. I am pretty sure I have come > accros this before, but I cannot find it anywhere. Anybody know where > I can find this. > > I have seached CPAN for

Re: to clarify (getting what was printed in PerlHandler)

2001-03-13 Thread Matt Sergeant
On Tue, 13 Mar 2001, JR Mayberry wrote: > I actually dont want to change whats outgoing -- I just want to know what it > is.. And the answer remains the same. Apache::Filter. -- /||** Founder and CTO ** ** http://axkit.com/ ** //||** AxKit.com Ltd ** ** XML Applica

[OT] do { local *FH; }

2001-03-15 Thread Matt Sergeant
On Wed, 14 Mar 2001, Paul wrote: > Learned a new trick: > my $fh = do { local *FH; }; I've had trouble using this under mod_perl - bizarre results with it not actually being lexical and not closing the file. I had to resort to using Apache->gensym in the end. Has anyone else seen the same? --

Re: VeryOT: help needed

2001-03-16 Thread Matt Sergeant
On Thu, 15 Mar 2001, Jauder Ho wrote: > Alright, it's crunch time (trying to help a coworker out) and I need > to pick up some XML parsing with perl fast. So if anyone here has some > good resources, they can point me at, it would be much appreciated. > > The problem I am trying to solve is as f

Re: [OT] ApacheCon BOF

2001-03-19 Thread Matt Sergeant
On Mon, 19 Mar 2001, Geoffrey Young wrote: > Hi all... > > In the spirit of things free and fun, I again have a sponsor for mod_perl > T-Shirts for this year's ApacheCon BOF. I think we can afford to make this > year's BOF a bit more organized than last year's (probably no shirt > tossings) b

[Take23] New IRC channel

2001-03-21 Thread Matt Sergeant
I've created an IRC channel for Take23 on irc.openprojects.net. Please feel free to come along and say Hi. http://take23.org/news/2001/03/21/irc.xml -- /||** Founder and CTO ** ** http://axkit.com/ ** //||** AxKit.com Ltd ** ** XML Application Serving ** /

Re: [Very OT] Politically Correct-ness (was: RE: [OT] ApacheCon BOF)

2001-03-21 Thread Matt Sergeant
On Wed, 21 Mar 2001, Jim Winstead wrote: > another note to throw out there -- o'reilly claims trademarks on > the camel/perl association and the mod_perl/eagle association, > so someone will either need to get permission from them to print a > shirt perpetuating those associations, or come up wit

Re: how to get underlying request_rec * ??

2001-03-22 Thread Matt Sergeant
On Wed, 21 Mar 2001, Gordon Lo wrote: > Hey, > I am writing a Perl interface to an existing C API. I > would like to do something like this in a Perl > handler: > > # Handler > sub handler { > my $r = shift; > . > . > my $rv = my_func($r, $some_other_args); > . > . > } > > where the

Re: Charset?

2001-03-23 Thread Matt Sergeant
On Fri, 23 Mar 2001, Dave Rolsky wrote: > Is there a mod_perl way to set the character set besides doing: > > $r->content_type('text/html; charset=foo'); > > ??? No, that's the way you have to do it. -- /||** Founder and CTO ** ** http://axkit.com/ ** //||** AxKit.c

Re: [ANNOUNCE} mod_perl moduile you may be interested in

2001-03-25 Thread Matt Sergeant
On Sun, 25 Mar 2001, Peter Brown wrote: > Gunther Birznieks writes: > > One of Matt's original examples of using AxKit was a CV/Resume thing. > > > > Later, > > Gunther > > cool > have not had a look at AxKit yet > > is this example in the AxKit package ?? > or somewhere else ?? http://

Re: mod_perl BOF

2001-03-28 Thread Matt Sergeant
On Wed, 28 Mar 2001, Dave Rolsky wrote: > Why was this scheduled during Matt Sergeant's AxKit presentation? > > Why not during a time slot when there are no mod_perl presentations? > > This is not rocket science here. I'm creating my own "Beer BOF", every n

RE: mod_perl BOF

2001-03-29 Thread Matt Sergeant
On Thu, 29 Mar 2001, Geoffrey Young wrote: > speaking of which, is there a meeting place for tuesday night? That's a no-brainer. The hotel bar! (I'm not really obsessed with beer, honest guvnor) -- /||** Founder and CTO ** ** http://axkit.com/ ** //||** AxKit.com Ltd

Re: PerlRestartHandler

2001-03-29 Thread Matt Sergeant
On Thu, 29 Mar 2001, Robin Berjon wrote: > At 18:20 29/03/2001 +0800, Stas Bekman wrote: > >On Thu, 29 Mar 2001, Robin Berjon wrote: > >> Ah yes, hadn't spotted that one, thanks Stas (once again...). > > > >That's the benefit you get when you review someone's book. You get the > >book's source te

Re: Apache::Session::Postgres Segmentation Fault Addendum

2001-03-29 Thread Matt Sergeant
On Thu, 29 Mar 2001, Victor Michael Blancas wrote: > I'm using Apache::Session::Postgres with Apache::ASP. > I'm getting a Segmentation Fault whenever I do a $dbh->disconnect at the > end of the script. When I comment out the the $dbh->disconnect however, I > don't get any errors. Having a scri

Re: mod_perl BOF

2001-03-29 Thread Matt Sergeant
On Thu, 29 Mar 2001, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Which hotel? The Westin Santa Clara - where the conf is being held. > > > > On Thu, Mar 29, 2001 at 02:55:35PM +0100, Matt Sergeant wrote: > > On Thu, 29 Mar 2001, Geoffrey Young wrote: > > > > > speaking of

Re: Apache::Filter doesn't filter right

2001-04-11 Thread Matt Sergeant
On Tue, 3 Apr 2001, Michael Nachbaur wrote: > I'm having a problem with Apache::Filter (and Apache::OutputChain) which I > don't think is related to Apache::Filter itself, but I can't seem to track > the problem down. > > I wrote a content handler which outputs XML, which I want to then be > pro

Re: [OT] Apachecon folks

2001-04-11 Thread Matt Sergeant
On Wed, 4 Apr 2001, G.W. Haywood wrote: > Hi Gunther, > > On Wed, 4 Apr 2001, Gunther Birznieks wrote: > > > Did you check under the bar...? > > :) > > Thanks for brightening my day, Gunther. > > Wish I was under the bar with Matt. For what it's wor

Re: negative LocationMatch syntax?

2001-04-12 Thread Matt Sergeant
On Thu, 12 Apr 2001, Perrin Harkins wrote: > Matt Sergeant wrote: > > > Is there a way I could use to specify a not condition? > > > as in > > > > > > SSLVerifyClient require > > > > > > > > > That would let me list the ex

Re: negative LocationMatch syntax?

2001-04-12 Thread Matt Sergeant
On Thu, 12 Apr 2001, Paul wrote: > Hi all. > > I need to leave a few areas of our site freely accessible, but most of > the site is restricted, and I'd like the default behavior to be > restrictive. I don't want to have to remember to change the config if I > add new directories, as in adding >

Re: mac_check in eagle book

2001-04-16 Thread Matt Sergeant
On 16 Apr 2001, Chip Turner wrote: > The modperl book mentions it double hashes to prevent a > malicious user from concatenating data onto the values being checked. > I don't know if they are referring to this weakness, but I suspect > they are. Sadly, the book doesn't seem to offer a reference

Re: Fast DB access

2001-04-17 Thread Matt Sergeant
On Tue, 17 Apr 2001, Differentiated Software Solutions Pvt. Ltd., wrote: > H/W : Celeron 433 with 64 MB RAM, IDE HDD using RH 6.1, perl 5.005, > Postgres 6.5.3 This is a very very old version of postgresql. Try it again with 7.1 for more respectable results. -- /||** Founder and CTO

Re: Fast DB access

2001-04-18 Thread Matt Sergeant
On Wed, 18 Apr 2001, Differentiated Software Solutions Pvt. Ltd., wrote: > Hi, > > There are 4 responses to our results. We will answer them to the best of our ability. > > MATT >This is a very very old version of postgresql. Try it again with 7.1 for > MATT >

Re: Fast DB access

2001-04-18 Thread Matt Sergeant
On Wed, 18 Apr 2001, ed phillips wrote: > You can scale any of these databases; Oracle, MySQL or PostgreSQL, but > please research each one thoroughly and tune it properly before you do > your benchmarking. And, again, MySQL does support transactions now. > Such chutzpah for them to have promote

Re: Must restart Apache when any .pm changes?

2001-04-22 Thread Matt Sergeant
On Sun, 22 Apr 2001, Kee Hinckley wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > At 5:36 AM +0200 4/22/01, Issac Goldstand wrote: > >man Apache::StatINC > > > > Issac > > Apache::Reload seems better. But if you have "use lib" statements in > your code you'll need some patches to

ANNOUNCE: Apache::Reload 0.07

2001-04-22 Thread Matt Sergeant
This is a minor update as promised with some patches from a couple of sources to help reload when "use lib" is in effect. Let me know if it works (or doesn't) please. -- /||** Founder and CTO ** ** http://axkit.com/ ** //||** AxKit.com Ltd ** ** XML Application Serv

Re: Can AxKit be used as a Template Engine?

2001-04-23 Thread Matt Sergeant
On Sat, 21 Apr 2001, Joachim Zobel wrote: > > Hi. > > I try to understand why and if this XML/XSL stuff is useful. Is it that > transformations (XSL) of XML to HTML can be used instead of the usual HTML > templates (eg. Template-Toolkit)? Partly. But XSLT is also able to transform documents, wh

Re: Can AxKit be used as a Template Engine?

2001-04-23 Thread Matt Sergeant
On 23 Apr 2001, Michael Alan Dorman wrote: > Errr, respectfully, I think you underestimate Mason's capabilities. Not really. I've researched Mason quite a bit, and I talk with Jon every ApacheCon/OSSCON about how we can bring together the Mason and AxKit synergy. Now Jon has been to my talk, we

Re: Can AxKit be used as a Template Engine?

2001-04-23 Thread Matt Sergeant
On Mon, 23 Apr 2001, Ian Kallen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Mason and AxKit solve different but related problems. The former a > code-aware component system with process semantics that lend itself to > easily scoping a component's applicability, the latter a > transformation engine. It would b

Re: Can AxKit be used as a Template Engine?

2001-04-23 Thread Matt Sergeant
On 23 Apr 2001, Michael Alan Dorman wrote: > Well I will say that you made an excellent point that hadn't really > occured to me---I use XML + XSL for a lot of stuff (the DTD I use for > my resume is a deeply reworked version of one I believe you had posted > at one time), but not web sites, in p

Re: ANNOUNCE: Apache::Reload 0.07

2001-04-23 Thread Matt Sergeant
On Mon, 23 Apr 2001, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > Would Apache::Reload be helpful in the case where you have > multiple virtualhosts which each want their own @INC ? > I tried fixing this problem with a previous release, but gave up > when I realized the implication of all those use lib () > dire

Re: FW: Tomcat or WebLogic's WebServer?

2001-04-24 Thread Matt Sergeant
On Tue, 24 Apr 2001, Wang, Pin-Chieh wrote: > Hi modperl guys, > > Anybody can confirm about this performance issue? Sorry to sound rude, but why would we care? This is a Java issue, nothing to do with mod_perl. -- /||** Founder and CTO ** ** http://axkit.com/ ** //||*

Re: Apache growing (memory)

2001-04-25 Thread Matt Sergeant
On Wed, 25 Apr 2001, G.W. Haywood wrote: > Hi all, > > On Wed, 25 Apr 2001, Remco Schaar wrote: > > > It is very hard to write perfect code, > > True, but it's not hard to write code that doesn't leak memory. > > void *p = NULL; > ... > ... > if( p ) { exit(POINTER_ERROR); } > void *p = malloc(n)

Re: an unusual [job request] + taking mod_perl to the commercialworld

2001-04-28 Thread Matt Sergeant
On Sat, 28 Apr 2001, Gunther Birznieks wrote: > As I think I mentioned, it's great that the people like you on this list > have a passion for delivering cool software. > > I may have missed the intent of these two posts (micropayment and messaging > engines), but unfortunately, I don't really

Re: an unusual [job request] + taking mod_perl to the commercialworld

2001-04-28 Thread Matt Sergeant
On Sat, 28 Apr 2001, Bakki Kudva wrote: > On Sat, 28 Apr 2001 09:14:10 +0100 (BST) > Matt Sergeant <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Amen to that and there is Enhydra on the Java side. To get the > functionality of these two frameworks I'd have to integrate many many CPA

Re: an unusual [job request] + taking mod_perl to the commercialworld

2001-04-29 Thread Matt Sergeant
On Sun, 29 Apr 2001, Gunther Birznieks wrote: > At 09:14 AM 4/28/01 +0100, Matt Sergeant wrote: > >On Sat, 28 Apr 2001, Gunther Birznieks wrote: > > > > > As I think I mentioned, it's great that the people like you on this list > > > have a passion for deliv

Re: CORE::format() and CORE::write() under 5.6.x

2001-04-29 Thread Matt Sergeant
On Sun, 29 Apr 2001, Stas Bekman wrote: > On Sun, 22 Apr 2001, Stas Bekman wrote: > > > There is this entry in the guide: > > > > > > The interface to file handles which are linked to variables with > > Perl's tie() function is not yet complete. The format() and write() > > functions are mi

Re: CORE::format() and CORE::write() under 5.6.x

2001-04-30 Thread Matt Sergeant
On Mon, 30 Apr 2001, Stas Bekman wrote: > cool, but this section in the guide was stating the CORE::format() doesn't > work. And it's still doesn't under mod_perl. So doesn't CORE::write(). Right, but it would be nice to point to an alternative. The module is called Text::Reform, by the way. -

Re: CORE::format() and CORE::write() under 5.6.x

2001-04-30 Thread Matt Sergeant
On Tue, 1 May 2001, Stas Bekman wrote: > On Mon, 30 Apr 2001, Matt Sergeant wrote: > > > On Mon, 30 Apr 2001, Stas Bekman wrote: > > > > > cool, but this section in the guide was stating the CORE::format() doesn't > > > work. And it's still

Exception modules

2001-04-30 Thread Matt Sergeant
> [1] for my Perl exception package (yes, another one :) which, in its > development version, now mostly does the Right Thing for mod_perl. See > http://sourceforge.net/projects/perlexception/ for the curious. Since I'm doing the mod_perl exception handling talk at TPC, I feel obligated to ask

Re: Exception modules

2001-04-30 Thread Matt Sergeant
On Mon, 30 Apr 2001, Jeffrey W. Baker wrote: > > > On Mon, 30 Apr 2001, Matt Sergeant wrote: > > > > > > [1] for my Perl exception package (yes, another one :) which, in its > > > development version, now mostly does the Right Thing for mod_perl. See &

Re: Exception modules

2001-04-30 Thread Matt Sergeant
On Mon, 30 Apr 2001, Jeffrey W. Baker wrote: > Yes precisely. It used to be that you could only die() with a string, but > 5. gave us die() with a reference to an object and at that moment > the system was complete. The creation of a rational exception object type > is left to the discretion of

Re: Exception modules

2001-04-30 Thread Matt Sergeant
On Mon, 30 Apr 2001, Jeffrey W. Baker wrote: > I have learned that errors from down in the call stack are very rarely > conditionally recoverable. If I call obj->method(), and it throws an > exception, there are few situations where the cause of the exception > matters at all. In most cases I w

Re: Apache::Registry - a thought

2001-05-01 Thread Matt Sergeant
On Mon, 30 Apr 2001, Pete Jordan wrote: > I've been off this list for over a year, so I may be covering ground that > I've failed to find in the archives, but whatever... > > I've had occasion to examine the internals of Apache::Registry recently[1] > and have been reminded of the unfeasably l

Re: modify Server header via a handler

2001-05-02 Thread Matt Sergeant
On Wed, 2 May 2001, Mark Maunder wrote: > You can get the server string in the header down to a minimum (Just 'Apache') > by putting > ServerTokens ProductOnly > on your httpd.conf. (Only supported after 1.3.12) > You can then use ap_add_version_component (C API) to add stuff after that. Right,

Re: modify Server header via a handler

2001-05-02 Thread Matt Sergeant
On Wed, 2 May 2001, Richard Chen wrote: > On Wed, May 02, 2001 at 03:22:51PM +0100, Matt Sergeant wrote: > > On Wed, 2 May 2001, Mark Maunder wrote: > > > > > You can get the server string in the header down to a minimum (Just 'Apache') > > > by putt

Re: XML::Parser & Expat cause segfaults

2001-05-02 Thread Matt Sergeant
On Wed, 2 May 2001, Oskari 'Okko' Ojala wrote: > I compiled mod_perl with > > perl Makefile.PL APACHE_SRC=../apache_1.3.19/src DO_HTTPD=1 USE_APACI=1 > PREP_HTTPD=1 EVERYTHING=1 Try changing PREP_HTTPD=1 to APACHE_PREFIX=/usr/local/apache, and add APACI_ARGS='...' where ... are your --enable-mod

[JOB SEEKER] mod_perl expert for hire

2001-05-02 Thread Matt Sergeant
I feel bad that, with the dot-bomb, all we see now are job seekers, not job adverts, but here I am, in need of some work to keep food on my table. My skills are fairly well known here. I'm an expert in XML and mod_perl. I built the take23.org mod_perl news and resources site. And I'm the develope

Re: modify Server header via a handler

2001-05-02 Thread Matt Sergeant
On Wed, 2 May 2001, Larry Leszczynski wrote: > Hi Matt - > > > Actually I lied! It is possible, though only from XS. I just added a > > module_init section to AxKit's config directives, and now I get: > > > > # HEAD http://axkit.org/ | grep Server > > S

RE: :Parser & Expat cause segfaults

2001-05-03 Thread Matt Sergeant
On Thu, 3 May 2001, Oskari 'Okko' Ojala wrote: > On Thu, 3 May 2001, Stephen Anderson wrote: > > > > Got a problem: About 250 of 1000 requests cause a segfault > > > (11) when using XML::Parser::parse() under mod_perl. > > > There's (apparently) a known symbol conflict between XML::Parser 2.30

Re: Throwing die in Apache::Registry

2001-05-04 Thread Matt Sergeant
On Fri, 4 May 2001, Perrin Harkins wrote: > on 5/4/01 9:28 AM, Mark Maunder at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > I have an Apache::Registry script that is using XML::Parser. The parser throws > > a > > 'die' call if it encounters a parse error (Why?). > > Because it's an exception and the parser can'

Re: PHP4 causes DBI connections to fail silently in mod_perl

2001-05-07 Thread Matt Sergeant
On Sun, 6 May 2001, Rodney Broom wrote: > Hi all, > > The other day I installed PHP4 as a DSO. No problem, it works fine. Today I was > adding a Perl handler that needs a DB connection (MySQL). Nothing special, I > used DBI. But at the time of the connection, the handler stops. No error, no > me

Re: really odd XML + CGI.pm + mod_perl + Macintosh + IE 4.5 problem

2001-05-08 Thread Matt Sergeant
On Mon, 7 May 2001, Jason Terry wrote: > OK I have ben RTFMing for about 5 hours now and I did find a fix for part of my >problem > > It seems that Mac browsers (IE 4.5 and an old AOL that I know of) are having trouble >viewing our HTML producing CGI scripts that use > a function called &C

Re: modify Server header via a handler

2001-05-11 Thread Matt Sergeant
On Tue, 8 May 2001, Doug MacEachern wrote: > On Wed, 2 May 2001, Matt Sergeant wrote: > > > Right, but the problem is you can't do this after module initialization > > (which is where mod_perl adds it's bits), but the PerlModule's are loaded > > after

Re: mod_perl and 700k files...

2001-05-11 Thread Matt Sergeant
On Wed, 9 May 2001, Morbus Iff wrote: > Hey there, wondering if anyone could help me with this. > > I'm relatively new to mod_perl... I've got a 700k file that is loaded each > time I run a CGI script, so I'm hoping to cache the file using mod_perl > somehow. The file will change occasionally

Re: mod_perl and 700k files...

2001-05-12 Thread Matt Sergeant
On Sat, 12 May 2001, Morbus Iff wrote: > >I store a .stor file which is a storable dump of my XML tree. I check the > >mtime of that against the mtime of the .xml file. Whichever is newer I > >load that. Works fast and is very simple. > > I'll certainly check it out. I also started looking into

Re: Connection to MySQL DB fails when mod_perl enabled...

2001-05-21 Thread Matt Sergeant
On Tue, 22 May 2001, Jonathan M. Hollin wrote: > This is driving me crazy... is there anything special I need to do when > using DBI (DBD::MySQL) with mod_perl. A script that works just fine sans > mod_perl dies with error 500 (Internal Server Error) when mod_perl is > enabled for that file typ

Re: Real Widgets and Template Languages

2001-05-22 Thread Matt Sergeant
On Tue, 22 May 2001, Gunther Birznieks wrote: > Does anyone have a widget framework like this? I think the closest I found > to widget abstraction is SmartWorker, but it is not abstract in quite the > way that I want above. We're planning to do something like this as a taglib in XSP for AxKit. I

Re: Real Widgets and Template Languages

2001-05-22 Thread Matt Sergeant
On Tue, 22 May 2001, Gunther Birznieks wrote: > > > Has someone done this already? > > > >Struts. But you knew that already :-) > > For those that do not know struts is a Java framework and I think someone > is trying to get me riled up! > > I want/need a *Perl* solution! Well if you can pay for

Re: ANNOUNCE: Soup (0.2) (fwd)

2001-05-25 Thread Matt Sergeant
On Thu, 24 May 2001, brian moseley wrote: > > so who's doing the perl wrappers? /me raises a hand. Since it uses libxml, I might as well have a look. -- /||** Founder and CTO ** ** http://axkit.com/ ** //||** AxKit.com Ltd ** ** XML Application Serving ** // ||

Re: User tracking in IE 6

2001-05-26 Thread Matt Sergeant
On Sat, 26 May 2001, Differentiated Software Solutions Pvt. Ltd., wrote: > Hi, > > This is related to other thread on user tracking > I've been reading up a bit on the upcoming IE6 release. > Couple of facts which may bite some of our software are > a) By default 3rd party cookies are to be disab

Re: Real Widgets and Template Languages

2001-05-30 Thread Matt Sergeant
On Tue, 29 May 2001, Stephen Adkins wrote: > I completely understand what all three of you are saying, and I think the > needs of the Gunther and Jay are being accommodated in the new design. > > However, a note on XML and Storable ... > > The XML::Simple class allows you a "cache" option (which

[Take23] Jobs Page online

2001-06-04 Thread Matt Sergeant
Take23 now has a jobs page, thanks to Ask's efforts on jobs.perl.org, we mirror their RSS feed. http://take23.org/jobs/ -- /||** Founder and CTO ** ** http://axkit.com/ ** //||** AxKit.com Ltd ** ** XML Application Serving ** // ||** http://axkit.org ** **

ANNOUNCE: AxKit 1.4 (fwd)

2001-06-05 Thread Matt Sergeant
Finally out of beta!!! The next stable release of AxKit is now available for download. This is a major release, fixing many bugs, improving functionality, performance, and flexibility. There is another major update to XSP functionality, and all taglibs have been released to CPAN updated to the n

Re: ANNOUNCE: AxKit 1.4 (fwd)

2001-06-05 Thread Matt Sergeant
On Tue, 5 Jun 2001, Matt Sergeant wrote: > Finally out of beta!!! > > The next stable release of AxKit is now available for download. > > This is a major release, fixing many bugs, improving functionality, > performance, and flexibility. There is another major update to XSP &g

Re: Practical examples of mod_perl Method handlers?

2001-06-06 Thread Matt Sergeant
On Tue, 5 Jun 2001, Randy J. Ray wrote: > Are there any CPAN modules for Apache that are examples of writing a method > handler? The docs in the manpage, the book, and the mod_perl guide are > pretty much all the same (brief) text. A good example would help a great > deal. Thanks. I think this i

mod_perl IRC channel

2001-06-06 Thread Matt Sergeant
Someone recently visited the mod_perl IRC channel and said they had a hard time finding it. So I thought I'd post here again. Come chat to other mod_perlers at: Server: irc.openprojects.net Channel: #take23 There's also a URL bot on the channel that publishes URLs posted to Take23, so if you ha

Re: 500 unexpected EOF before status line seen

2001-06-07 Thread Matt Sergeant
On Thu, 7 Jun 2001, Juan Julian Merelo Guervos wrote: > What does this mean? I'm using mod_perl alongside SOAP::Lite module, > with by-the book configuration, and the SOAP client issues this error > and coredumps. Calling the program from a browser returns a "no data" > error. > > Any idea? Most

Re: Apache pnotes

2001-06-09 Thread Matt Sergeant
On Sat, 9 Jun 2001, Jamie Krasnoo wrote: > The Eagle Books explanation of notes isn't very clear. Could someone point > me to a page that explains it somewhat better? In what situation would it be > beneficial to use them? You use notes (or pnotes) when you want a kind of global variable that is

Re: Installation woes :)

2001-06-10 Thread Matt Sergeant
On Mon, 11 Jun 2001, Jason wrote: > LoadModule usertrack_module modules/mod_perl.so Eek, that should be: LoadModule perl_module modules/mod_perl.so -- /||** Founder and CTO ** ** http://axkit.com/ ** //||** AxKit.com Ltd ** ** XML Application Serving **

Re: Questions Concerning Large Web-Site

2001-06-11 Thread Matt Sergeant
On Mon, 11 Jun 2001, Ron Beck wrote: > > Is there a good tutorial or book on the subject of constructing Perl > modules? I too have done some of this and would like to create actual > modules instead of required subroutines. There's a good intro (though I'm biased) on http://take23.org/ --

Re: comparison of templating methods?

2001-06-11 Thread Matt Sergeant
On Mon, 11 Jun 2001, will trillich wrote: > > At 08:59 AM 6/8/2001 -0500, will trillich wrote: > > >which of the existing paradigms will the widget farm most > > >closely resemble? and what are your expectations for tradeoff in > > >functionality/modularity-vs-performance? > > > > 1) What do you

Just a few questions...

2001-06-12 Thread Matt Ellison
some light on exactly what is happening with ab here? I have verified that there is no Content-Length header in the output via telnet to the Apache server, but how safe is it to omit this header? Why is the results with ab inconsistent? Thanks, Matt E.

Re: Setting the "Server" header in a response

2001-06-14 Thread Matt Sergeant
On Thu, 14 Jun 2001, Randy J. Ray wrote: > I'd like to append the ident string for my XML-RPC server class to the > outgoing Server: header, within my mod_perl handler. It seems that setting > this with $r->header_out (or getting the tied hash from $r->headers_out and > setting the key) doesn't a

Re: server tokens

2001-06-23 Thread Matt Sergeant
On Sat, 23 Jun 2001, brian moseley wrote: > > is there any way to access the server tokens in mp 1.24? i'd > like to use them at server startup time. You have to use XS. AxKit does it this way. I'd paste the code here but it's a bit all over the place, so you'd be easier to just download it. -

ANNOUNCE: AxKit::XSP::PerForm (fwd)

2001-06-27 Thread Matt Sergeant
, XPathScript, XSP ** // \\| // ** mod_perl news and resources: http://take23.org ** \\// //\\ // \\ -- Forwarded message -- Date: Wed, 27 Jun 2001 15:19:51 +0100 (BST) From: Matt Sergeant <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: AxKit Users Mailing List <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subje

Re: Just a few good men? Was: ignored (again)

2001-07-04 Thread Matt Sergeant
#x27;s enough to convince people to move to "mod_perl". They want to move to a better framework. I'm sure you know which one I favour :-) Sadly most people *still* see Perl on the web as CGI, as printing out your HTML from code, etc. It needs more articles in the right places to fix that sort of misconception. Matt.

Re: I need help...

2001-07-05 Thread Matt Sergeant
ss to that data ... (Now the only solution I've found is to write that data to a file ... but it isn't a good thing because of synchronizations problems...) I hope to have been clear enough ... and to have written to the right e-address! How about Apache::SharedMemory? Matt

Re: Limiting Input size

2001-07-06 Thread Matt Sergeant
nt with 10 billion bytes. > > I can do it after. But without doing a read(), I'm wondering if > these shortcuts provide security protection in this regargd, or > if there is a better solution? perldoc Apache::Request Also see the Apache docs. Matt.

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