RE: Summary: identifiying unique users
Ged wrote: How to avoid multiple logins? The short answer is: you can't. Sure you can. Charge $10 per login. I don't want to clobber the list with non-technical trivia, but even when you charge money, you can't avoid it. If only there is one user that is willing to pay the amount twice, your scheme is broken. As with technical solutions: the higher the amount you charge, the lesser the risk of people doing it. But the risk remains... --Frank
Sleeping sessions
Hello modperl, I need help. I've compiled apache 1.3.28 + mod_perl 1.28 + mod_ssl 2.8.15. Before that all was ok, but at the moment all httpd session freezing in memory and turning to sleeping, 30-40 min and server is overloaded. I use PerlRun instead of Apache::Registry. Any ideas? --- Sincerely yours, Andrey A. Kudrin,
Re: Sleeping sessions
Hi there, On Wed, 17 Sep 2003, Andrey A. Kudrin wrote: I've compiled apache 1.3.28 + mod_perl 1.28 + mod_ssl 2.8.15. Before that all was ok, Before what? Before mod_ssl? Try it without. Have you checked in the documentation that the version of mod_ssl is suitable for your purposes? but at the moment all httpd session freezing in memory and turning to sleeping, 30-40 min and server is overloaded. You must send more information. Read the documentation on the mod_perl site to find out what you need to send. 73, Ged.
Re: Summary: identifiying unique users
On Wed, Sep 17, 2003 at 08:39:58AM +0200, Frank Maas wrote: Ged wrote: How to avoid multiple logins? The short answer is: you can't. Sure you can. Charge $10 per login. I don't want to clobber the list with non-technical trivia, but even when you charge money, you can't avoid it. If only there is one user that is willing to pay the amount twice, your scheme is broken. As with technical solutions: the higher the amount you charge, the lesser the risk of people doing it. But the risk remains... The only nearly reliable way I have found of doing this is to impliment a two stage registration process. Normal online registration with a face to face sales meeting where the account is activated. This however requires significant investment in an offline process and backoffice. On the down side people can always :- A. Use another legitimate account (Beg, Borrow, Steal) B. Have another meeting where an actor obtains the new acount details (Fraud). In respect to client side cookies this does not help as I will often in the case of system testing use multiple machines (Unix/Windows) with multiple browser versions. Your best be is to use server side token versioning which will prevent multiple browsers simultaniously using the same login but does not prevent different logins being used. Hope it helps Paddy
upgrading to apache 2
I am currently running apache 1.3.26 with mod_perl 1.36 and Perl 5.6.1 on my web server which is a Sun Solaris machine running Solaris 7. We have just bought a new Sun machine for our web server and I will be installing Solaris 9. I figure that now is a good time to upgrade my software. I would like to install Apache 2, mod_perl 2, and Perl 5.8. Does anyone know of any specific problems, issues that I should look out for? I am also running MySQL and I use the perl DBI-DBD modules for interfacing between apache and mysql. If anyone has any suggestions or tips to pass along I would appreciate it. Malki Cymbalista Webmaster, Weizmann Institute of Science Rehovot, Israel 76100 Internet: [EMAIL PROTECTED] 08-934-3036
Re: upgrading to apache 2
Hello there, On Wed, 17 Sep 2003, Malka Cymbalista wrote: I am currently running apache 1.3.26 with mod_perl 1.36 and Perl 5.6.1 on my web server which is a Sun Solaris machine ... I would like to install Apache 2, mod_perl 2, and Perl 5.8. While Apache version 2 is stable, mod_perl version 2 is not yet. If you are prepared to accept some of the issues which arise during the early stages of software development then by all means try mod_perl version 2. If not, then stay with the latest version 1, which means you must also use a version 1 Apache. There have been several issues with Perl 5.8.0, and although I have had no problems with 5.8.0 on my own development boxes, in either case I would wait for Perl 5.8.1 before release into a user environment - and I would test that for a couple of months first. As far as I can tell Perl 5.6.1 is as good a release of Perl as any. 73, Ged.
Re: AIX perfomance
Hi Ged, On 9/12/03 at 4:12 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Ged Haywood) wrote: Roughly what hardware setups do you generally work with, and what differences are notable between Linux and AIX when running mod_perl servers? (If that's not too long a piece of string to measure:). Are there situations where you'd prefer one or the other, if so why? Sorry for the slow response; I've been out of town. Most of my mod_perl/AIX systems are used to generate organizational performance reports, basically data-mart type stuff, which is very DBI (DB2) and computationally-intensive, and also often invlove running COBOL binaries which have been ported from OS/390 and run via RPC::XML. If the need to run COBOL is absent from a project, then I usually deploy on Lintel, since procurement is so much easier. I never rely on OS ditributions of perl, apache, or mod_perl so my working enviroment is always identical. As I mentioned earlier, Rafael should not be experience slowness on AIX unless he's comparing dated RS/6000 hardware with new Intel. Scalability, especially with big SMP iron, still favors the RS/6000 though at a colossal cost. Bill
Re: Sleeping sessions
Ged Haywood wrote: [...] but at the moment all httpd session freezing in memory and turning to sleeping, 30-40 min and server is overloaded. You must send more information. Read the documentation on the mod_perl site to find out what you need to send. Ouch, that's a lot to read ;) It's better to point people to a simple: http://perl.apache.org/bugs/ Thanks. __ Stas BekmanJAm_pH -- Just Another mod_perl Hacker http://stason.org/ mod_perl Guide --- http://perl.apache.org mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] http://use.perl.org http://apacheweek.com http://modperlbook.org http://apache.org http://ticketmaster.com
RTF/MSword Generation from PERL
Hi All, I have an online FAQ. Running under IIS 5.0/Win2k/PerlEx with ActiveState Perl 5.6.1 ... sorry can't run 5.8.0 yet The answers to the FAQ questions contain jpegs, bmps, and gifs I'd like to repeatably generate RTF/MSWord 97 files from XHTML1.0 Transitional webpages 1 per FAQ (webpage) and 1 large ~300MB for the whole site. I know I can use RTF::Writer and some other HTML::* modules [Thanks Sean M. Burke :) ] . but I'm a little iffy on the embedding of images in it ? It can be done since win2k app, 'write', supports it but via PERL ? Also, does anyone have a link handy to the full spec ? I can't seem to get any good search results on search.cpan.org for MSWord is there a different phrase I should be looking for ? Would SP/jade be a better solution ? Thanks in advance. END -- Philip M. Gollucci Consultant E-Mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] URL : http://p6m7g8.net/Resume/resume.shtml Phone : 301.474.9598 eJournalPress DBA / Software Engineer / System Administrator E-Mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] URL : http://www.ejournalpress.com Phone : 301.530.6375 $Id: .signature,v 1.4 2003/05/02 23:46:37 philip Exp $
Re: RTF/MSword Generation from PERL
Philip M. Gollucci wrote: Hi All, I have an online FAQ. Running under IIS 5.0/Win2k/PerlEx with ActiveState Perl 5.6.1 ... sorry can't run 5.8.0 yet The answers to the FAQ questions contain jpegs, bmps, and gifs Philip, frankly I fail to see anything in your request that has to do with modperl. There are many other appropriate places where you can ask this question. See: http://perl.apache.org/docs/offsite/other.html Let's keep the Signal to Noise ratio high on this list. Thank you. __ Stas BekmanJAm_pH -- Just Another mod_perl Hacker http://stason.org/ mod_perl Guide --- http://perl.apache.org mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] http://use.perl.org http://apacheweek.com http://modperlbook.org http://apache.org http://ticketmaster.com
