Apache::ASP internal redirects
hello. i'm testing the new $Server-Transfer for internal redirects but have run into a minor problem. when i try to use File::Basename::basename $0 to determine the name of the current Apache::ASP file, $0 contains the name of the previous file if the current file had been called by $Server-Transfer. is there a way to determine the correct filename? thanks again, remi __ Do You Yahoo!? Get Yahoo! Mail Free email you can access from anywhere! http://mail.yahoo.com/
Re: Hope you didn't miss me too much
Must be nice being your own boss! I think we missed not just your technical expertise but also your moral guidance (don't worry though, there wasn't another eToys thread). Glad to have you back... -Adi "Jeffrey W. Baker" wrote: I got a three week vacation from technology as a wedding gift from myself. I'm back now, and I'll get around to answering many of the Apache::Session questions I recieved in the coming days. Cheers, Jeffrey
Re: Script that stays on the same page
Pierre-Yves BONNETAIN wrote: Hello, For my server, I need to write some script that will be 'regularly' triggered (GET or POST), but that will NOT send the user to another page. The user must stay on the same page he is, without ANY html being exchanged as a result of the script. This will be used to change parameters on the user's session, but since those params will not affect the page the user is currently looking at, there is no need to send HTML back. So, 1/ can it be done ? 2/ How ? www.macconnection.com or www.pcconnection.com do a nice job of this. see any of their 'smart selectors'... every time you select a menu option, the number of items 'found' by the /server/ scripts, based on the users' new parameters, pop up into a text box. very slick. -+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+- Their is five errers in this sentance.
Re: Script that stays on the same page
what about returning the http no response code 204. as in
print $query-header('text/html','204 No response');
will trillich wrote:
Pierre-Yves BONNETAIN wrote:
Hello,
For my server, I need to write some script that will be 'regularly'
triggered (GET or POST), but that will NOT send the user to another page. The
user must stay on the same page he is, without ANY html being exchanged as
a result of the script.
This will be used to change parameters on the user's session, but since
those params will not affect the page the user is currently looking at, there
is no need to send HTML back.
So, 1/ can it be done ? 2/ How ?
www.macconnection.com or www.pcconnection.com do a nice job of this.
see any of their 'smart selectors'... every time you select a menu
option, the number of items 'found' by the /server/ scripts, based on
the users' new parameters, pop up into a text box. very slick.
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Their is five errers in this sentance.
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Re: best encryption module
On Fri, 7 Jul 2000, clayton cottingham aka drfrog wrote: whats the best encryption module for use with mod perl? i want to encrypt passwords store in a db and then be able to check what a users inputs against it Perl has a built-in crypt() function. The actual encryption algorithm used depends on your system's C library. Older systems still use 56-bit DES. Newer ones may use something stronger like MD5 or Blowfish. See your crypt(3) manpage and `perldoc -f crypt` for more information. - Matt
Forking off lengthy processes
I've just read the Guide's advice on fork and system calls, but it doesn't really seem to offer a resolution to the problems it raises. I'm trying to set up an SMS gateway for my webmail users. The gateway just uses LWP to contact a web-SMS provider and sends a POST request (following some redirects in the process). This can be a lengthy process, so rather than have my mod_perl process waiting, I'd like to pass on the request to another process. Here are the potential solutions I can think of and their problems: * fork(): Memory hog, since it copies the entire Apache process (is this right--does it share the memory for all the modules etc...?) * system(): Slow--would have to start up a new Perl process * Create a simple preforking server and have mod_perl just pass a request to it through a socket: Seems like overkill. The most hopeful possibility seems to be fork(), but the Guide says to avoid it. Isn't almost all the memory shared though? The other place I'd like to avoid holding up my mod_perl processes is in waiting for file uploads to finish (which is a common situation as people upload attachments for their emails). Is there a any way to do this... perhaps by using some kind of 'gateway' server? -- Jeremy Howard [EMAIL PROTECTED] FastMail--Sign up at http://fastmail.fm
Re: CGI.pm: start_form defaults
No wonder Alexei V. Barantsev on Jul 8 said that, AVB] Playing with CGI I have found that real behaviour of start_form AVB] without parameters does not correspond to documentation. AVB] AVB] From the documentation: AVB] AVB] The defaults are: AVB] method: POST AVB] action: this script AVB] enctype: application/x-www-form-urlencoded AVB] AVB] From the source code of startform: AVB] AVB] $method = $method || 'POST'; AVB] $enctype = $enctype || URL_ENCODED; AVB] $action = $action ? qq/ACTION="$action"/ : $method eq 'GET' ? AVB]'ACTION="'.$self-script_name.'"' : ''; Yes, it's empty. And when it is, according to HTML spec, the default ACTION will be "this script". So the doc is just fine. san -- trabasLabs * [EMAIL PROTECTED] * http://www.trabas.com Zero Point * [EMAIL PROTECTED] * http://www.zp.f2s.com -- We are all alone --The X-Files
Re: Forking off lengthy processes
At 01:19 10/07/2000 +, Jeremy Howard wrote: I've just read the Guide's advice on fork and system calls, but it doesn't really seem to offer a resolution to the problems it raises. I'm trying to set up an SMS gateway for my webmail users. The gateway just uses LWP to contact a web-SMS provider and sends a POST request (following some redirects in the process). This can be a lengthy process, so rather than have my mod_perl process waiting, I'd like to pass on the request to another process. Here are the potential solutions I can think of and their problems: * fork(): Memory hog, since it copies the entire Apache process (is this right--does it share the memory for all the modules etc...?) * system(): Slow--would have to start up a new Perl process * Create a simple preforking server and have mod_perl just pass a request to it through a socket: Seems like overkill. It may only overkill if you have to write it in it's entirety just for that :) There's plenty of example code and modules to build one such tool easily. If you don't need all this to be done in real time you might want to try a simple cron based system. Write your requests to a database, and have them be sent every now and then. -- robin b. Suicidal twin kills sister by mistake!
Using modules
Hi all, I have a small problem. I have a package which is not situated in perl\lib folder. It has a different path. I have some problems in copying this to library folder. Can I use the package from the present position without copying to the library folder?? How do tell the perl compiler to search that folder also?? Thanx in advance RegardsSrinidhi Rao S
