Re: Advice sought for learning mod_perl (2 or 1)

[Robert Lee]

Ged Haywood wrote:

 Q1: Is there a similar module to Apache::Request?


Depends what you want to do, but not really.  Care to try porting it?
No no. Apache::Request 2 port is in works and it'll be available RSN thanks 
to Joe Schaefer and Randy Kobes who do an extraordinary job. Though it'll 
be released sooner if more people help with testing and polishing it. For 
more information see:
http://httpd.apache.org/apreq/
Thanks for the responses; they were very helpful.

BTW: No, there are no commercial pressures involved in this project, but 
just doing a possible/likely career transition from the embedded-telecom 
implosion to something more of the future. However, time (as always) is 
always of the essence, and I'll need to balance my choices available.

It's funny. I thought that Java would be a predominant player in the web 
world, but it looks like perl et al are the predominant players. That's ok 
as I'm was never a huge fan of Java anyhow ;p.

Enough of my rant. Thanks again.

Stas, if you have the email of Joe and Randy, please email me; I'll see if I 
am of any use to them.

Robert

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Advice sought for learning mod_perl (2 or 1)

[Robert Lee]

Hi everyone,

 I am new to Apache/mod_perl and everything else. I bought a fairly good 
book on Apache/mysql/mod_perl. Unfortunately, it is based on the Apache 1 
server and mod_perl1. In doing so, it is using the Apache::Request module 
which has not been ported to mod_perl2 yet.

 Several questions come to mind:

 Q1: Is there a similar module to Apache::Request? Similar to syntax that 
is.

 Q2: Any real benefits to working on the latest and greatest? Or should I 
go to the older versions?

Yes, I realize that for Q2, I may want to simply go with the more stable 
versions of the Apache server and mod_perl as I am just learning, but I 
would like to hear some opinions. Thanks.

Robert

FYI: OS - RH v8.0
 Apache - v2.45
 mod_perl - 1.99.09
 perl - v5.8
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