Re: Can't build Apache::Dispatch on Windows / Perl 5.8.0
Hi!
On Thu, Sep 11, 2003 at 10:24:20PM -0500, Randy Kobes wrote:
Here's a patch against the Apache-Dispatch Makefile.PL to
allow it to build on Win32 - I've also put up a ppm package
Oh, great! Thanks Randy! I'll put this into the next release, which should
happen in a few days...
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Re: Can't build Apache::Dispatch on Windows / Perl 5.8.0
Hi!
On Thu, Sep 11, 2003 at 08:33:31AM +0100, Steve Hay wrote:
I posted this problem the other day, deep inside a thread about
something else, and didn't get any replies; maybe nobody spotted it?
Does anybody have Apache::Dispatch working on Windows with Perl 5.8.0?
Randy?
Randy posted this some time ago:
I just made one up, which you can install as
C:\ ppm install
http://theoryx5.uwinnipeg.ca/ppmpackages/Apache-Dispatch.ppd
Maybe this works for you?
See:
http://www.gossamer-threads.com/archive/mod_perl_C1/modperl_F7/Looking_for_Apache::Dispatch_PPD_P73122/
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Re: Can't build Apache::Dispatch on Windows / Perl 5.8.0
Hi!
On Thu, Sep 11, 2003 at 08:59:23AM +0100, Steve Hay wrote:
I would rather be able to build the module myself anyway, rather than
using a PPM package.
I guess (and Geoffrey (who BTW transfered maintainership of Apache::Dispatch
to me..) suggested something) the problem lies within the custom configuration
directives used by Apache::Dispatch.
I'm planning to make these optional in the next release of Apache::Dispatch,
so you could either use
DispatchPrefix Bar
(which needs compiling)
or
PerlSetVar DispatchPrefix Bar
(which doesn't need compiling and should thus make installation easier)
BTW, do other people have it working under Perl 5.8.0 on other
platforms? I'm not sure if this problem is Windows-related or
5.8.0-related.
There is one FAIL reported on:
http://testers.cpan.org/show/Apache-Dispatch.html
I complied it without problem on Linux Perl 5.8.0 and 5.6.1.
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Re: Help wanted with locations / configuration
Hi!
On Tue, Sep 09, 2003 at 10:05:43AM +0100, Steve Hay wrote:
Location /myproject/css
SetHandler default
/Location
Location /myproject/img
SetHandler default
/Location
This is working as expected, i.e. request for /css/foo.css or /img/bar.png
are not handled by Apache::Dispatch
What about requests for /css or /img ? Are they handled by
Apache::Dispatch? The problem I found with my LocationMatch override is
that requests for files were caught, but requests for directories
slipped through to the Perl handler.
Unfourtunatly, request for /css are handled by Apache::Dispatch. At least it
seems so, but I'm enterly sure if it's the actual request that's beeing
served, or an internal redirect (or some other funky Apache internal thing,
like ErrorDocument or index generation)
It does seem like a feature/problem of Apache. I tried various config
options (and modifications to Apache::Dispatch), but no matter what I did,
request for /img/ allways get passed to PerHandler instead of default
handler
Request for anything inside /img/ work as expected.
No, wait a minute...
If I request /foo/bar/ (another dir) than it doesn't work either.
I still do not know if this a bug in
Apache / mod_perl / Apache::Dispatch / YourHandler, and/or internal redirect.
Or if this is expected behaviour.
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Re: Help wanted with locations / configuration
Hi!
On Mon, Sep 08, 2003 at 04:51:55PM +0100, Steve Hay wrote:
The project is going to be written as a series of mod_perl handlers -
one for the main home page, and others for various sub-components.
Each handler is implemented by a separate module (all sub-classes of a
common base class). I don't want to have to configure a separate
Location for each sub-component.
You might want to take a look at Apache::Dispatch, which does exactly this.
Location /myproject
SetHandler perl-script
PerlHandler MyProject-dispatcher
/Location
LocationMatch ^/myproject/(images|javascript|stylesheets)
SetHandler default-handler
/LocationMatch
I'm using something like this with Apache::Dispatch
PerlModule Apache::Dispatch
DispatchUpperCase On # this is /not/ in Apache::Dispatch,
# only in my patched version
DispatchPrefix Oe1
DispatchExtras Error
Location /myproject
SetHandler perl-script
PerlHandler Apache::Dispatch
/Location
Location /myproject/css
SetHandler default
/Location
Location /myproject/img
SetHandler default
/Location
This is working as expected, i.e. request for /css/foo.css or /img/bar.png
are not handled by Apache::Dispatch
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Re: Ticket/cookie based authentication for mod_perl and static frontend
Hi!
On Die, Aug 26, 2003 at 09:06:05 +1000, Charlie Garrison wrote:
I need to protect resources in both the static (proxy) front-end and the
mod_perl back-end. I have been using standard http authentication which works
pretty well except for not allowing a proper logout function and some caching
issues which result in occasional false FORBIDDEN responses. Since a proper
logout has become an important requirement, I am looking for other solutions.
Did you take a look at Apache::AuthCookie?
http://search.cpan.org/author/MSCHOUT/Apache-AuthCookie-3.04/
Since I need the user credentials in the mod_perl app, I'm not happy to leave
all authentication to the front-end proxy server unless it sets the user
credentials (or some other values) before passing along the request.
As AuthCookie is a mod_perl handler, you would have to put the
Authentification into the backend. Depending on how you generate the session
key (i.e. the value of the Auth Cookie), you should be able to use the
cookie in the frontend using one of the modules you mentioned (although I
don't know any of them..)
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Re: Coding Style Question - Using exit
Hi!
On Mon, Aug 18, 2003 at 08:07:30 -0400, Chris Faust wrote:
Example To Help Explain:
sub handler {
$r = shift;
init_global_vals();
$back_url = determine_proper_action();
my $back_url = ;
$r-headers_out-set(Location = $back_url);
return Apache::REDIRECT;
}
Why not let determine_proper_action() return undef (or OK, or whatever) if
you do not want to redirect? And in your handler do:
my $rv=determine_proper_action();
if ($rv) { # or ($rv == Apache::Constants::OK)
# redirect
} else
# done
}
One problem I can see is if you're exiting somewhere deep in a nested sub
and you cannot propagate the return value back to the handler (easily).
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Re: Mod_perl how to include the result of mod_autoindex?
Hi!
On Mon, Aug 11, 2003 at 04:37:45 -0500, Slava Bizyayev wrote:
It's not quite the truth...
You can do all that staff on Apache 1.3 with appropriate skills. See LWP
for example.
If you mean to grab the output of e.g. mod_autoindex by issueing a sperate
request using LWP, that's definitly possible. But I would classify this as a
hack and not as a proper way to implement a feature.
Or /is/ there a clean way to properly filter output from different response
handlers with Apache 1.3? I'd realy like to hear about it...
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Re: Mod_perl how to include the result of mod_autoindex?
Hi!
On Mon, Aug 11, 2003 at 08:37:19AM -0700, Coexec wrote:
I am writing a mod_perl script using CGI.pm and Apache
1.3.28/Linux.
I am trying to figure out how to use Apache's
mod_autoindex to display a directories contents within
the output the CGI. Apache is configured correctly, I
am not asking for Apache help.
This is not possible using Apache 1.3. What you want to do is called
filtering and is available with Apache/mod_perl 2.0.
http://perl.apache.org/docs/2.0/user/intro/overview.html#Integration_with_2_0_Filtering
With Apache 1.3, you cannot (e.g.) generate content with mod_perl that
includes Server-Side-Include directives. You also cannot get the content of
mod_autoindex and further process this content using something.
What does work is to use only mod_perl, as suggested by Christopher Grau
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Problems installing mp1 and apache-1.3.28
Hi, I've a strange problem I've never encountered before when compiling my own apache. I simply run: 1) in mod_perl-1.28: /opt/perl/bin/perl Makefile.PL DO_HTTPD=1 USE_APACI=1 APACHE_PREFIX=/opt/apache make make test make install 2) If I know try to start my apache with a startup-file like this: 8 #!/opt/perl/bin/perl use Apache::Log; 8 I get this error-message: 8 ../bin/apachectl start [Wed Jul 30 14:18:43 2003] [error] Can't locate loadable object for module Apache::Log in @INC (@INC contains: /opt/perl/lib/5.8.0/i686-linux /opt/perl/lib/5.8.0 /opt/perl/lib/site_perl/5.8.0/i686-linux /opt/perl/lib/site_perl/5.8.0 /opt/perl/lib/site_perl . /opt/apache/ /opt/apache/lib/perl) at /opt/perl/lib/site_perl/5.8.0/i686-linux/mod_perl.pm line 14 Compilation failed in require at /opt/apache//conf/startup.pl line 3. BEGIN failed--compilation aborted at /opt/apache//conf/startup.pl line 3. Compilation failed in require at (eval 2) line 1. Syntax error on line 981 of /opt/apache/conf/httpd.conf: Can't locate loadable object for module Apache::Log in @INC (@INC contains: /opt/perl/lib/5.8.0/i686-linux /opt/perl/lib/5.8.0 /opt/perl/lib/site_perl/5.8.0/i686-linux /opt/perl/lib/site_perl/5.8.0 /opt/perl/lib/site_perl . /opt/apache/ /opt/apache/lib/perl) at /opt/perl/lib/site_perl/5.8.0/i686-linux/mod_perl.pm line 14 Compilation failed in require at /opt/apache//conf/startup.pl line 3. BEGIN failed--compilation aborted at /opt/apache//conf/startup.pl line 3. Compilation failed in require at (eval 2) line 1. ../bin/apachectl start: httpd could not be started 8 What's going on here? Any ideas. Tom
Re: Problems installing mp1 and apache-1.3.28
Oh found it my self. I forgot to add EVERYTHING=1 to perl-Makefile call because i simply copied it from INSTALL.simple where this is not mentionned. tom On Wed, 2003-07-30 at 14:20, Thomas Schindl wrote: Hi, I've a strange problem I've never encountered before when compiling my own apache. I simply run: 1) in mod_perl-1.28: /opt/perl/bin/perl Makefile.PL DO_HTTPD=1 USE_APACI=1 APACHE_PREFIX=/opt/apache make make test make install 2) If I know try to start my apache with a startup-file like this: 8 #!/opt/perl/bin/perl use Apache::Log; 8 I get this error-message: 8 ../bin/apachectl start [Wed Jul 30 14:18:43 2003] [error] Can't locate loadable object for module Apache::Log in @INC (@INC contains: /opt/perl/lib/5.8.0/i686-linux /opt/perl/lib/5.8.0 /opt/perl/lib/site_perl/5.8.0/i686-linux /opt/perl/lib/site_perl/5.8.0 /opt/perl/lib/site_perl . /opt/apache/ /opt/apache/lib/perl) at /opt/perl/lib/site_perl/5.8.0/i686-linux/mod_perl.pm line 14 Compilation failed in require at /opt/apache//conf/startup.pl line 3. BEGIN failed--compilation aborted at /opt/apache//conf/startup.pl line 3. Compilation failed in require at (eval 2) line 1. Syntax error on line 981 of /opt/apache/conf/httpd.conf: Can't locate loadable object for module Apache::Log in @INC (@INC contains: /opt/perl/lib/5.8.0/i686-linux /opt/perl/lib/5.8.0 /opt/perl/lib/site_perl/5.8.0/i686-linux /opt/perl/lib/site_perl/5.8.0 /opt/perl/lib/site_perl . /opt/apache/ /opt/apache/lib/perl) at /opt/perl/lib/site_perl/5.8.0/i686-linux/mod_perl.pm line 14 Compilation failed in require at /opt/apache//conf/startup.pl line 3. BEGIN failed--compilation aborted at /opt/apache//conf/startup.pl line 3. Compilation failed in require at (eval 2) line 1. ../bin/apachectl start: httpd could not be started 8 What's going on here? Any ideas. Tom
Re: [QUESTION] Can't read out verified username (auth)
Hi!
On Mon, Jul 21, 2003 at 12:36:55 +0200, Fatih Gey wrote:
I supposed the browser to resend always an unique bowser session id, which
is used by apache to save certain values, like $ENV{'REMOTE_USER'}
(similiar to a session-cookie with uid and serverbased $vars) ..
Isn't this the way Basic Authentication scheme works ? ..
I do not know how much Auth stuff changed in Apache 2.0/mod_perl 2, but you
seem to mix up checking user credentials in the response phase (as done in
CGI or PHP) with writing you own Auth Handlers that replace the standard
Apache ones.
If you get the user credentials via a web form, you are usually NOT using
BASIC Auth but your own scheme (or something like Apache::AuthCookie). Thus,
$r-connection-user is not set.
Take a look at:
* Chapter 6 of the Eagel book, available online at:
http://modperl.com:9000/book/chapters/ch6.html
* Chapter 13.7 of the mod_perl Cookbook
* Apache::AuthCookie
At least that's how it works with mod_perl 1.x ...
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Re: How do I have a PerlAuthenHandler not popup the login box?
Hi!
On Thu, Jul 17, 2003 at 06:07:48PM -0700, Jason Fong wrote:
I'm making a login system that uses a web form instead of the browser's
popup box to input the username/password. My problem is that when I use
my authentication script as a PerlAuthenHandler in the .htaccess, it
insists on having the browser show the popup username/password box. I
tried making a simple handler function that just returns OK, but I still
get the login box.
This the way BASIC Authentication works. To solve your problem (cleanly),
you'll need to use your own custom authentication mechanism. This is not
as hard as it sound.
Take a look at Apache::AuthCookie for an example (quite likely it is exactly
what you are looking for)
Or read chapter 13.7 Writing your own authentication mechanism in the
mod_perl Cookbook.
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mod_per2/PerlInc in Virtualhost
Hi, Is it possible to use different PerlINC-Paths in different virtual hosts in mod_perl2. In mod_perl1 I've used Apache::PerlVINC what do I use in mod_perl2? thx tom
Re: How to share subroutine
:Hi!
On Wed, Jul 16, 2003 at 10:46:27PM +0100, Ged Haywood wrote:
Hi there,
On Wed, 16 Jul 2003, Matthew Wu wrote:
I put all my subroutine in file.pm, what I need to do such that it
can be used by my program? I don't what location I need to put it in and
what kind of configuration I need to modify. I am running Redhat 6.3.
At the risk of repetition... :)
Ha! :-)
This is a mailing List specifically for mod_perl issues.
Are you using mod_perl?
If you're using mod_perl, you might find this helpful:
http://perl.apache.org/docs/general/perl_reference/perl_reference.html#userequiredo_INC_and__INC_Explained
and
http://perl.apache.org/docs/1.0/guide/config.html#The_Startup_File
especially:
use lib qw(/path/to/module);
But, as Ged allready mentioned, please RTFM! The mod_perl docs are really
great, so please DO read them.
http://perl.apache.org
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Re: mod-perl - read
Hi!
On Mon, Jul 14, 2003 at 04:46:37PM -0500, Siva Yendapalli wrote:
I am totally a newbie to mod_perl. I could able to get the content length
using $r-headers_in(Content-Length). but I don't see anything in the $buf
when I call the function $r-read($buf,$r-headers_in(Content-Length)). I
Is there any reason you want to parse the request yourself? You can use
Apache::Request to access the POST/GET data
am sure I am doing some thing wrong with the configuration or with mod_perl
program. Please can some body give me an example and what I should do with
the configuration to load the program.
see perldoc Apache::Request
The mod_perl Website http://perl.apache.org also has a huge amount of
information (including pointers to the various mod_perl books).
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Re: Apache dont run
Hi!
On Mon, Jul 14, 2003 at 04:59:17PM +0100, AROSO Jose Antonio wrote:
I install the all in one package which contain the modperl 2.0 and de apache
server 2.0.46.
But after install when i write in command line apache to run the server
appears The dynamic link library libxml2.dll could not be found.
What do i do?
Read this:
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Re: Problem with PerlTransHandler
Hi!
On Fri, Jun 27, 2003 at 02:47:45PM +0400, Sergey V. Stashinskas wrote:
sub handler {
my $r = shift;
my $dbh = DBI-connect('dbi:mysql:db', 'user', 'pswd');
$dbh-disconnect;
maybe the DBI-connect isn't working and thus your script dies / throws some
error ?
I'd try to check if connect works, if $dbh works, etc.
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Re: Current directory
Hi!
On Tue, Jun 17, 2003 at 02:19:49AM +0200, Oskar wrote:
when I am executing perl script on Apache it seems that the current
directory is not the directory where the script is located but the directory
c:\program files\apache group\apache. I need current dir to be the script
dir since i have some pm in the script directories.
I have apache 1.3.27 and mod_perl 1.
See:
http://perl.apache.org/docs/1.0/guide/porting.html#_INC_and_mod_perl
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Re: How tell what version of mod_perl is installed?
Hi!
On Thu, Jun 05, 2003 at 01:37:59PM -0700, Dennis G. Allard wrote:
Please note, though, one of my goals in life is to rely on my software
providers to do the work of providing me with a stable, tested,
updatable OS and associated tools. If I download 'out of band' updates,
then I can no longer rely on Red Hat's network update tool, for example.
With all due respect for your fine work, which is awesome, there are
application developers such as myself out there who simply don't have
time to track the bleeding edge except when absolutely forced to do so
(which sometimes does happen).
The latest Red Hat comes with Apache 2 (because Apache 2 is quite stable).
Unfortunatly mod_perl 2.0 is /not/ that finished (Sorry Stas..). But because
Red Hat wants to provide mod_perl to its Users, they included the Beta
Version in their distro.
So blame them ...
/home/stas perl-blead -Mmod_perl -le 'print mod_perl-VERSION'
1.2701
/home/stas perl-blead -MApache2 -Mmod_perl -le 'print mod_perl-VERSION'
1.9910
Bummer, I don't have perl-blead and there are only 17 references to it
in the entire history of Dejanews, none that seem to point to a
download...
You don't need perl-blead (which is probably Stas' install of the latest
unstable Perl version)
This will do the same job:
% perl -Mmod-perl -le 'print mod_perl-VERSION'
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Re: How tell what version of mod_perl is installed?
Hi!
On Thu, Jun 05, 2003 at 01:56:58PM -0700, Dennis G. Allard wrote:
You don't need perl-blead (which is probably Stas' install of the latest
unstable Perl version)
This will do the same job:
% perl -Mmod-perl -le 'print mod_perl-VERSION'
Bummmer, that does not work either for me on Red Hat 8.0:
Sorry, typo: it should say -Mmod_perl instead of -Mmod-perl, i.e.:
% perl -Mmod_perl -le 'print mod_perl-VERSION'
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[OT] Re: pl extension
Hi!
On Thu, Jun 05, 2003 at 11:00:37AM +0200, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I'm running redhat 9 and trying to execute a perl script through a web
browser
http://host/file.pl
and the file displays as text, how do i get my apache to recognize this
extension?
This doesn't seems like a mod_perl question to me. Try a general CGI list:
http://lists.perl.org/showlist.cgi?name=cgi-list
Or read the Apache Docs, especially the section on ScriptAlias:
http://httpd.apache.org/docs-2.0/mod/mod_alias.html#scriptalias
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remove me from this fuckin list plss - Original Message - From: Geoffrey Young [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Shashank Kailash Shringi [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, May 30, 2003 5:00 PM Subject: Re: Stacked Handlers Location directive -- inside and outside virtual host When http://www.abc.com/~xyz gets called PerlAuthenHandler MyModule is invoked. MyModule code checks for IP after reading a file from xyz directory. If the host ip matches with the one in the file, it returns OK and the PerlAuthzHandler never gets called and the webpage is served to the user. you may want to try using a PerlAccessHander for checking the IP, then combine that with Satisfy Any (as opposed to the Satisfy All default). HTH --Geoff
Re: mod_perl caching form data?
Hi!
On Thu, May 29, 2003 at 12:19:49PM -0500, David Ressman wrote:
So far, so good. Everything works pretty well... Except that
something's caching previously entered form data and displaying it back
to me as the default values in those same forms. As an example, this
form has a text field that asks for IP addresses, and the text input
will occasionally be filled out with the IP address of a system that
you had entered a few minutes ago.
Sounds to me like you are storing your values in global variables which
won't get reset between requests.
Do you declare you vars with 'my' ?
Are you running with
use strict;
use warnings;
? If not, turn them on, as thos pragmas will help you catch this kind of
error.
See here:
http://perl.apache.org/docs/1.0/guide/porting.html#Global_Variables_Persistence
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Re: how to secure perl modules?
Hi!
On Thu, May 29, 2003 at 10:27:54AM -0700, iCap wrote:
i have a collection of perl modules (running under the mod_perl umbrella)
and would like to distribute the application to several different sources
(clients with open internet web servers). but i dont want to send it out
without at least making it somewhat difficult for some hacker to just simply
steal it and load it somewhere else without my consent. what options do i
have (if any) to secure the code so that it can't be 'easily' stolen?
'easily' being the operative word here, as i realize it wont be 100% safe no
matter what i do.
the ideal would be to perhaps encrypt some of the code, maybe a few of the
base configuration modules, maybe even the startup.pl file, others?
If you want to make it hard to read the code, use an Obfuscator (eg.
Acme::EyeDrops)
If want to really secure your code: it's not possible, see this thread on
perlmonks:
http://www.perlmonks.org/index.pl?node_id=243011
or search in the mailinglist archives. This questions was discussed here a
few times.
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best way to configure for multiple developers?
Hi I have read through the lists looking for issues related to mp2 and @INC, and have read the part about +Parent and virtual hosts. What about the following scenario? One apache2 server w/ mp2 (no virtual hosts) and several perl coders using the server as a development site. Is there a best way to configure the apache/mp2 setup so that there doesn't have to be constant additions to startup.pl to adjust the INC path? What about name space conflicts? For example, I want developer1 to use /dev1, and developer2 /dev2. I want each developer to be able to build functions below there directories in as many subdirectories as projects they have going on. I don't want developer1's functions.pm code to interfere with developer2's functions.pm. Is such an arrangement even possible under mp2? I've been using Apache1/mp1 and this works fine, but all my tests with mp2 end up giving me ModPerl::Registry: Can't locate FUNC.pm in @INC (@INC contains: /usr...) types of errors. And for identically named files (e.g. functions.pm above), I get the subroutines from the first listed functions.pm in the @INC path, which are the wrong ones being called for. Can anyone push me in the write direction? Thanks for any help BCT
Re: best way to configure for multiple developers?
Hi Thanks for the info. I'll try setting up some virtual hosts. More below... On Wed, Apr 02, 2003 at 06:07:01PM -0500, Perrin Harkins wrote: Brian C. Thomas wrote: I have read through the lists looking for issues related to mp2 and @INC, and have read the part about +Parent and virtual hosts. You should read the docs for tips on this, especially here: http://perl.apache.org/docs/general/control/control.html#Starting_a_Personal_Server_for_Each_Developer The strategies for this are mostly unaffected by mp 1 vs 2. Is there a best way to configure the apache/mp2 setup so that there doesn't have to be constant additions to startup.pl to adjust the INC path? If you don't need to restart the server, you could give each developer a separate virtual host with a separate pool of perl interpreters. These could each have a different @INC setting and would not share code. If you need people to be able to restart though, it has to be separate servers. For example, I want developer1 to use /dev1, and developer2 /dev2. I want each developer to be able to build functions below there directories in as many subdirectories as projects they have going on. I don't want developer1's functions.pm code to interfere with developer2's functions.pm. Well, what I mentioned above will let you do that, but how do you do it on the production server? You probably don't want to have multiple pools of interpreters there, since it would use more memory. If you keep these files in a separate namespace, it won't be an issue. Are these real modules, with package declarations? Is such an arrangement even possible under mp2? I've been using Apache1/mp1 and this works fine How are you doing it in mp1? There is no support for pools of interpreters in mp1, so all of your code must be using the same @INC. Right, I guess it just feels like it is working under mp1, since I can get @INC to contain . (the current dir) and use StatINC in all the developer locations. In the mp2 server, it shows me a different @INC, that doesn't include . (is it possible in mp2?). Thanks again, BCT
Re: cgi.pm does not work in handlers (why responsehandlers at all ?)
Hi!
On Wed, Apr 02, 2003 at 12:49:56AM +0200, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Is the O'Reilly about apache-modules what I'm looking for ? I've the
small O'reilly about mod_perl but it raises more questions than its
answers.
The Eagle book is definitly very interesting (if a little bit old - BTW, is
there a new edition scheduled for mod_perl 2?).
You can find lots of other usefull docs at
http://perl.apache.org
including pointers to other books (eg. the mod_perl Developers Cookbook)
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Re: inline mod_perl - is this possible?
Hi!
On Wed, Mar 19, 2003 at 03:55:20AM -0800, www.ReadNotify.com wrote:
I want to do this (serverside of course); is it
possible?
html
I am running
!#perl
print $ENV{MOD_PERL};
print process ID $$;
/!#perl
on Apache!!
/html
What modules/config/etc do I need to set up?
There are various templating system / app servers on CPAN that let you do
this. Take a look at (e.g.) Mason or Embperl.
There is also Perrin Harkins article on Choosing a Templating System that
describes those (and other) systems;
http://perl.apache.org/docs/tutorials/tmpl/comparison/comparison.html
http://www.masonhq.com/
What Is Mason?
Mason is a powerful Perl-based web site development and delivery engine.
With Mason you can embed Perl code in your HTML and construct pages from
shared, reusable components.
http://perl.apache.org/embperl/
Embperl is a framework for building websites with Perl. For the beginner
it's an easy to setup and use way of embedding Perl code in HTML pages. It
delivers several features that ease the task of creating a websites,
including dynamic tables, formfield-processing, escaping/unescaping, session
handling, caching and more.
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Re: Using a Startup.pl
Hi!
On Tue, Mar 18, 2003 at 01:39:41PM -0500, Chris Faust wrote:
I'm running mod_perl 2 on RedHat with Apache 2.0.44 and I'm using NamedBased
Virtual Hosting in apache (so I have a number of virtual hosts and apache
directs properly based on hostname).
I use a startup.pl to load up common things like DBI, CGI, HTML::Template
etc..
Should I have just a single startup.pl and will that work with all virtual
hosts? Or should I have a startup.pl per virtual host.
AFAIK, and with mod_perl 1.x, having multiple startup.pl's makes no sense as
they all get executed during server startup and in the main namespace.
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Job tracking and publishing question.
Hi, I want to implement a job tracking and database publishing system and hoping for some assistance. My company does short run 4 color digital printing. Because it is short urn we handle multiple jobs every day. I developed an online bidding system; it use Apache, mod_perl, and mysql. Now I would like to move to tracking jobs online; first, for internal purposes -- it would make the workflow much easier to follow -- and later for customers to view the status of their jobs on the web. Each bid has about 38 data fields associated with it and each job will have a few more fields along with an image file in the form of a pdf. Each job needs to be tracked through production with operators at each stage having being able to update its status or add notes. After the job is finished an invoice would be printed to go out with the job. Web based applications are good for this because we use Mac's and PC's, and both must be able to have access to that job. I was looking at Bricolage, however it appears to be more suited to text content publishing. I currently use Template::Toolkit to print out the bids and I imagine I could do all the programming myself--naturally, it would be helpful to find some package that suited at least some of my requirements.. I would really appreciate any thoughts or suggestions. Thanks, Thomas Whitney
Re: [mp2] disabling a perl handler within a specific location
Hi!
On Tue, Mar 04, 2003 at 12:54:30AM -0500, Matt Avitable wrote:
Does anyone know how one goes about disabling a particular handler
within a specific location? For example, consider the following:
Location /
PerlInitHandler config
PerlOutputFilterHandler filter
/Location
LocationMatch /(images|gfx)/
## what can I put here to say don't run to the above handlers?
/Location
This works for Auth*Handlers, so it should work for any phase:
LocationMatch /(images|gfx)/
PerlInitHandler Apache::Constants::OK
/Location
See recipy 7.3 in the Cookbook
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Re: Server side programming PHP Vs CGI Vs modPerl
Hi!
On Fri, Feb 14, 2003 at 03:52:35PM +0530, Devi .M wrote:
Now I tried authenticating the user, where I have to maintain
separate session for each user. When I saw how to do session management in
mod_perl a module called Apache::Session was told. But when I tried it,
that module was missing in my mod_perl. So I want to know, whether I have
to download this module separately, or what version of mod_perl will it be
available?
You'll have to download Apache::Session (and probably a lot of other usefull
modules) seperatly from CPAN, http://www.cpan.org (though I prefer
http://search.cpan.org)
Or, use the CPAN-shell that comes with Perl
(as root)
% cpan
or
% perl -MCPAN -eshell
cpan install Apache::Session
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Re: Server side programming PHP Vs CGI Vs modPerl
Hi!
On Sat, Feb 15, 2003 at 12:07:28PM +0530, Devi .M wrote:
After authentication I have to redirect to
another page,if the user and passwd is right. I am able to view my HTML
page also correctly but below the page the following message is displayed.
When I checked the error.log , there was no error thrown in it. Can anyone
help me how to overcome this
---
HTTP/1.1 200 OK Date: Sat, 15 Feb 2003 06:46:02 GMT Server: Apache/1.3.27
(Unix)
mod_perl/1.27 Connection: close Content-Type: text/html Embedded Perl
version v5.6.1 for
Apache/1.3.27 (Unix) mod_perl/1.27 process 1614,
running since Sat Feb 15 11:49:25 2003
Perl Configuration
Loaded Modules
Inheritance Tree
Enabled mod_perl Hooks
Environment
PerlRequire'd Files
Signal Handlers
Symbol Table Dump
ISA Tree
Compiled Registry Scripts
---
This looks like the output of Apache::Status.
Without further information about your configuration etc, help is hardly
possible.
Please read the mod_perl documentation at
http://perl.apache.org
and take an even closer look at
http://perl.apache.org/docs/1.0/guide/help.html#How_to_Report_Problems
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Re: development techniques
I use my debugging module
(http://cpan.perl.org/authors/id/T/TB/TBOLIOLI/Log-AndError-0.99.tar.gz)
which prints to stderr (hence I got bit by the mod_cgi issues with
read/write deadlocks on pipes) while tailing the logs, etc. I am looking
to include a syslog and other output drivers to my mod which should
allow for more fancy versions of the tail -f method.
The key to the print xxx if $debug method is to use stderr, categorize
diag msgs, have multiple levels and lastly to have many lines of code
marked to send diag info to the debugger. By using the module I have
eliminated the if statements and simply pass diag info to the debugger
which in turn determines if the msg is of importance given current
debugging levels. This is more of a performance drag but it cleans up
the code plenty.
Tom
Jim Martinez wrote:
The start of a new year has me thinking of how I can improve things.
Like the way I develop, debug and test code.
Do you develop with an xterm tailing the logs, an emacs window (or other
editor) to edit the script and/or the packages (and on some occassions
httpd.conf), and a web browser (on an alternate virtual desktop)? Do you
pepper code with :
print option: . $option{$foo . br if $debug;
Fairly low tech, huh.
At apachecon, a speaker (who neither bragged nor rambled) mentioned lwp
use instead of (or to complement) the web browser portion.
Will the use of lwp instead of a browser improve my coding ability (either
in terms of speed or just improving my perl coding)? Seems like I'd have
to spend too much time with the lwp script (tell it to first request the
page then choose option A and B then hit the submit button ... )
Is there some way to improve this cycle : edit code - refresh browser -
possibly look at the error log - edit code - ...
Or maybe you use another approach that's better?
Happy new near (9 days late),
Big big Jim
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Re: Perl Cookbook modperl chapter
On Wed, Dec 11, 2002 at 01:13:30PM -0800, Nick Tonkin wrote: Obviously you (or ORA) _are_ competing with mod_perl Developer's Cookbook ... Why wouldn't they be? They have Writing Apache modules with Perl and C after all. And with Stas' and Eric's book on the way (www.modperlbook.org) they already have two books (soon hopefully). If ORA wanted to cover mod_perl they should not have let Geoff co. get away to another publisher. Maybe they felt that the book(s) they already have signed for will/would saturate the market? A publisher can only justify a certain amount of books on each topic. [Don't really want to go into wheter or not mod_perl should be covered in gnat's book, but if they have decided to include it they are certainly within their rights to do so. If you don't like that, just don't buy the book?] -- Thomas Eibner http://thomas.eibner.dk/ DnsZone http://dnszone.org/ mod_pointer http://stderr.net/mod_pointer http://photos.eibner.dk/ !(C)http://copywrong.dk/ http://apachegallery.dk/ Putting the HEST in .COM http://www.hestdesign.com/
Re: Obfusacating the source
Hi!
On Tue, Nov 19, 2002 at 07:08:00PM +, Mark Fowler wrote:
I need some tool that gets all the perl modules and
mason components, of an application we made, and obfucaste
it a little.
See Acme::Bleach
In fact you're probably better off using Acme::EyeDrops
http://search.cpan.org/author/ASAVIGE/Acme-EyeDrops-1.16/lib/Acme/EyeDrops.pm
With Acme::Bleach, you'll need to say
use Acme::Bleach
at the beginning of your bleached module.
Acme::EyeDrops uses a big Regex, or (probably saver for your needs)
call it with Regex = 0 to generate a string to be evaled. So no need
for 'use Acme::EyeDrops', so no telltale sign for the cracker.
But no matter what Obfuscator you use: Obfuscation won't stop a determined
reader to get to the source.
shameless plug
You might want to check out the slides of my talk The Dark Art of
Obfuscation, held at YAPC::Europe 2002:
http://domm.zsi.at:/talks/obfu_yapc2002/
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Re: RFC: Template::YetAnother
Hi!
On Sat, Nov 16, 2002 at 10:43:44AM +0100, Marcin Kasperski wrote:
One note: while talking about templating systems for generating HTML,
it can be inspiring to take a look at the Zope Page Templates (yes, I
know, this is the python/zope world, not perl...). They found the nice
idea of injecting loops/ifs etc into HTML in the way which does not
spoil HTML markup.
There is a simmilar Perl implementation of this called HTML_Tree
http://homepage.mac.com/pauljlucas/software/html_tree/
A module based on HTML_Tree is on CPAN under the name of
HTML-Seamstress:
http://search.cpan.org/author/TBONE/HTML-Seamstress-1.17/Seamstress.pm
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Re: RFC: Template::YetAnother
Hi!
On Fri, Nov 15, 2002 at 07:05:49PM -0800, Josh Chamas wrote:
Don't do it. If you want a stripped down version of
..
evolution of these things. The perl template user community is
already fractured enough,
I expected that canonical answer to all Template Proposals :-)
better to hop onto a project, hack it to your
satisfaction ( with the blessing of the maintainers ) to get
the configs/subclasses you need for your requirements.
I will take a closer look if my ideas could be implemented by
subclassing/extending Template Toolkit or CGI::FastTemplate.
But do you think that the concept sounds reasonable in the first
place?
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Re: RFC: Template::YetAnother
Hi!
On Sat, Nov 16, 2002 at 03:31:39PM -0500, Perrin Harkins wrote:
I also posted this on perlmonks:
http://www.perlmonks.org/index.pl?node_id=213300
Ovid on Perlmonks already said some of the things I would have said
about needing a presentation language. For a templating system to be
useful, it has to be able to deal with loops and conditionals. Your
system pushes those into the Perl code, splitting the presentation
control into multiple places. This fails one of my major goals: the
template coders should be able to change the presentation without help
from a Perl coder. What if they decide they don't want to loop through
the links, but rather just print a message saying there are some? What
if they only want to show the first two? What if they want to display a
list with commas between the elements where they didn't use a separator
before? A mature templating system can handle all of these issues
without changing the main Perl module code.
That's a very good point I didn't really think about. I was thinking
of templates as DUMB frontends that should just display
data. Period.
Thinking of them as tools that handle presentation logic (as Ovid
pointed out) seems to make more sense.
It does pay of to write RFCs before starting to code...
Because IMO, the main reason for using templates is to seperate code
from markup.
It sounds to me like you want one of the HTML attribute ones, like Petal
or HTML::Seamstress. What was wrong with those?
One problem I see with HTML::Seamstress is that it uses the HTML
attributes 'class' and 'id' for templating info. But those attributes
are used by CSS and JavaScript and might conflict somehow. I do not
know if you can change the behaviour of HTML::Seamstress to use other
attributes, though. But this stopped my from looking further.
And I didn't look at Petal. For now.
There is one module, CGI::FastTemplate, that does seperate code from
markup completly. But the way different templates are strung together
seems rather comlicated to me.
It's not complicated, but it is somewhat confusing the first time you
look at it. I don't find your approach much easier though.
Well, I found mine easier :-)
(But I guess this is the reason for the Template Flood on CPAN -
everbody finds his own solution easier...)
Isn't your fill method just doing a sort of multi-level join here? All
of the data is passed in already, so there is no reason to delay
evaluation of the templates.
The main reason for doing this was to simplify testing. I planned to
just test the plain data structures, that should be free of HTML at
this time (before the fill). This (testing) was in fact the reason I
started thinking about this proposal in the first place.
More importantly, your use of AUTOLOAD to treat method calls as file
names looks neat, but is not a good approach. It's limiting (all
templates in one directory!) and has potential security issues with
namespace clashes. These are all just the same method call with a
single argument changed, so why not write them that way?
I planned to handle those namespace and filename issues.
..
force you to use them. They are flexible modules. I think you should
look at them more closely before you go off on your own.
That's what I'll do. Thanks for the excellent feedback.
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Namespace problem
I am having a namespace problem that is a slight twist
to that described in the 1.0 docs
http://perl.apache.org/docs/1.0/guide/porting.html#Name_collisions_with_Modules_and_libs
My problem is even simpler, but worse. If I have two
CGI programs using the same required script.
Initially one works without any problems. Then if I
call up the other script, each time I get an error
saying the subroutine cannot be found. Refresh the
browser and it works, but then the first one starts to
give an error;
Error message:
Undefined subroutine
ModPerl::ROOT::ModPerl::Registry::home_httpd_qx_2dbin_gdtest1::goodDay
called at /home/httpd/qx-bin/gdtest1 line 7.
This has to be something simple because I don't get
the error with normal Library components. What am I
missing here??
Here is the package, and both CGI scripts that use it.
Thanks for any help,
Tom
-- commontest.pl --
#!/usr/local/bin/perl
# Common Functions that will be 'required' by Perl CGI
scripts
CONFIG: {
package commontest ;
}
sub goodDay {
package commontest ;
print H1Good Day Billy/H1\n ;
}
1;
-- gdtest1 (First CGI script that uses the
package
#!/usr/local/bin/perl
require /usr/lib/perl5/site_perl/commontest.pl ;
print Content-Type: text/html;
charset=ISO-8859-1\n\n ;
print headtitleTest
1/title/headbodyH1Test 1/H1\n ;
goodDay ;
print /bodyhtml\n ;
exit ;
-- gdtest2 (Second CGI script that uses the
package
#!/usr/local/bin/perl
require /usr/lib/perl5/site_perl/commontest.pl ;
print Content-Type: text/html;
charset=ISO-8859-1\n\n ;
print headtitleTest
2/title/headbodyH1Test 2/H1\n ;
goodDay ;
print /bodyhtml\n ;
exit ;
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RFC: Template::YetAnother
..). I'll really appreciate feedback on this.
I hope that this descripction is clear enought. If not, let me know and I'll post some
clarification / examples.
=head1 SYNOPSIS
# generate a new template handler
my $th=Template::YetAnother-new
({
namespace='acme',
template_dir='/projects/acme/templates/',
});
# build up a data structure
$data={
title=$th-title('this is the title'),
breadcrumb=[
$th-link({url='/index.html',text='Home'}),
$th-separator_breadcrumb,
$th-link({url='/acme/index.html',text='Acme'}),
$th-separator_breadcrumb,
$th-link({url='/acme/bleach.html',text='Bleach'}),
],
content=[
$th-element({heading='SYNOPSIS',value='blabla'}),
$th-element({heading='DESCRIPTION',value='foo bar'}),
],
lastmod=scalar localtime,
};
# fill template print
print $th-fill({data=$data});
##
# for this to work, we need the following files in
# /projects/acme/templates
# file: main.tpl
htmlheadtitle[% title %]/title/head
body
center[% breadcrumb %]/center
h1[% title %]/h1
[% content %]
hr
[% lastmod %]
# file: link.tpl
a href='[% url %]'[% text %]/a
# file: seperator.tpl
/
# file: element.tpl
h3[% heading %]/h3
p[% value %]/p
##
# the finished template should look like this:
htmlheadtitlethis is the title/title/head
body
center
a href='/index.html'Home/a /
a href='/acme/index.html'Acme/a /
a href='/acme/bleach.html'Bleach/a
/center
h1this is the title/h1
h3SYNOPSIS/h3
pblabla/p
h3DESCRIPTION/h3
pfoo bar/p
hr
Thu Nov 7 21:51:05 200
=head1 DESCRIPTION
=head2 new
my $th=Template::YetAnother-new({
template_dir='/path/to/templates/',
# namespace='projectname',
# start_tag='--',
# end_tag= '--',
});
Generates a new Template::YetAnother Handler Object.
=head2 fill
$th-fill($data);
Fill the template with the data in the data structure.
=head2 _gen
my $fragment=$th-_gen('type',$data)
Generates a new Template Fragment
You usually do not have to call this. You just say
$th-type($data)
and AUTOLOAD passes it to C_gen
=head1 EXPORT
Nothing.
=head1 SEE ALSO
Search for Ctemplate on http://search.cpan.org, if you dare.
=head1 AUTHOR
Thomas Klausner, [EMAIL PROTECTED], http://domm.zsi.at
=head1 COPYRIGHT
This module is Copyright (c) 2002 Thomas Klausner, ZSI.
All rights reserved.
You may use and distribute this module according to the same terms
that Perl is distributed under.
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Re: [OT] Perl vs. PHP..... but where is mod_perl?
On Fri, Oct 18, 2002 at 05:05:47PM +0100, Jeff AA wrote: - I get The requested story: 19716 has not been published (set live) yet. when I visit http://www.newsfactor.com/perl/story/19716.html Do you think the lists comments upset someone? 8-) It better have. I'm sure the php team wouldn't even put something like that up. Maybe Randall should even contact them and offer his services in fixing their broken site. (I got the Apache::Cookie:: scalar link too). -- Thomas Eibner http://thomas.eibner.dk/ DnsZone http://dnszone.org/ mod_pointer http://stderr.net/mod_pointer http://photos.eibner.dk/ !(C)http://copywrong.dk/ http://apachegallery.dk/ Putting the HEST in .COM http://www.hestdesign.com/
Re: SSL - mod_gzip - mod_perl = mod_proxy error
On Fri, Oct 18, 2002 at 09:46:38PM -0500, Nigel Hamilton wrote:
Hi,
I'm trying to hand all SSL requests to a backend mod_perl server
with mod_gzip installed for compression.
This means that SSL content is pre-compressed by the backend
server before being encrypted by the frontend (Mini How To - below).
Apparently mod_gzip and SSL on the same server will not work -
this is why I need to pass the request to a proxy to handle the compression.
So ... a request on https://turbo10.com:446/index.html (server A)
passes to http://turbo10.com:44300/index.html (server B).
The file is compressed by server B and passed back to server A for
encryption and tranmission to the client.
This works fine for static files.
BUT
Mod_perl scripts seem to fail:
https://turbo10.com:446/cgi-bin/splashpage1.cgi
The log reports:
[Mon Oct 14 21:33:25 2002] [error]
proxy:http://turbo10.com:44300/cgi-bin/splashpage1.cgi not found or unable
to stat
Something tells me that the proxy isn't handling this, have you double
checked that the proxy server is actually sending the request to the
mod_gzip enabled server?
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Re: Handler Concept / Question
You were close. It's default-handler. http://httpd.apache.org/docs/handler.html And in mod_perl docs: http://perl.apache.org/docs/1.0/guide/config.html#Overriding_E_lt_LocationE _gt__Setting_in__Sub_Location_ __ Thanks, that was what I was looking for. Thomas Whitney
Re: Handler Concept / Question
If I do set my script to answer all requests, how do I tell the webserver to show the static content that exists under the requested url? You have to make the default handler pick it up. I forget the exact syntax, but there were some examples posted to the mailing list a while back. - Perrin Hi, I was following this thread with interest because I want to do something like this. I started searching on list archive for the above mentioned syntax, I searched for 'static content', then 'default handler', but with no luck. I do not mind doint the the searching, if you would perhaps suggest a couple other search topics. Thanks, Thomas Whitney.
Re: Hiding perl code
Hi!
On Sun, Jul 21, 2002 at 10:58:24PM -0400, Jonathon M. Robison wrote:
Anyone know offhand a good way to hide your perl code when using
mod_perl? Acme::Bleach isn't doing it - httpd is failing to start on
You could write an obfuscator. Maybe Acme::EyeDrop works?
See
http://domm.zsi.at/source_code/obfu/O.pm
for an obfuscated mod_perl handler.
A very simple thing to do is eg:
$yourcode=s/\s+/~/gs;
Than, in to be obfuscated module, do:
$_='package~Your::Code'.$yourcode;s/~/ /g;eval;
That's basically what I did in my mod_perl obfu.
This definitly isn't unbreakable, but (if you add some more
obfu-tricks and maybe do some encryption on the code to be evaled)
would require some knowledge to deparse.
I guess you started this thread on perlmonks?
http://www.perlmonks.org/index.pl?node_id=183932
If not, read it.
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Re: Static vs. DSO on Linux specifically
Hi!
On Mon, Jul 22, 2002 at 10:26:32AM -0500, David Dyer-Bennet wrote:
So, specifically for the Linux environment, what are the downsides of
running mod_perl as a DSO? (Pointers to the FM so I can R it would be
fine.)
Did you take a look at this:
http://perl.apache.org/docs/1.0/guide/install.html#Pros_and_Cons_of_Building_mod_perl_as_DSO
?
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Re: mod_proxy_add_forward.c
On Mon, Jul 22, 2002 at 08:34:08AM +1000, Jie Gao wrote: On Sat, 20 Jul 2002, Ask Bjoern Hansen wrote: As you may know then the proxy module in httpd 2.0 incorporates the X-Forwarded-For, X-Forwarded-Host and X-Forwarded-Server functionality of mod_proxy_add_forward.c. What are the differences between them? I believe there is a difference in what headers was decided on to send in mod_proxy. mod_proxy_add_forward.c: X-Forwarded-For X-Host X-Server-Hostname mod_proxy: X-Forwarded-For X-Forwarded-Host X-Forwarded-Server I have: ProxyPass /my-bin/ http://127.0.0.1:8081/my-bin/ ProxyPassReverse /my-bin/ http://127.0.0.1:8081/my-bin/ and I still see 127.0.0.1 - - [22/Jul/2002:08:32:53 +1000] GET /my-bin That's what's supposed to happen. On the backend you have the headers you can use to determine the original client. I've created a module (both 1.3 and 2.0) to take advantage of the headers called mod_rpaf [1] (reverse proxy add forward) in the backend. 1: http://stderr.net/apache/rpaf/ -- Thomas Eibner http://thomas.eibner.dk/ DnsZone http://dnszone.org/ mod_pointer http://stderr.net/mod_pointer http://photos.eibner.dk/ !(C)http://copywrong.dk/ http://apachegallery.dk/ Putting the HEST in .COM http://www.hestdesign.com/
Apache 2.0.40 / modperl-2.0 - Under Cygwin environment
Anyone have any success getting mod_perl 2.0 to compile under Cygwin? I have Apache 2.0.40 compiled and working fine, however, when I point mod_perl at the apache prefix directory and go to build the ld2 compiler cannot find the ap/apr libraries needed to finish the link for the dll. I have found that apr and aprutil are not in the linker path and have added them, however, there is no apache library created that the linker is looking for. Any help here would be greatly appreciated. Thanks, Thomas
[OT] mod_perl obfuscation / T-shirt ?
Hi!
Concerning the yearly what to put on the t-shirts-discussion...
I was thinking about doing a mod_perl Obfuscation for some time, and today I
found some time and wrote up something .. It's not that much obfusacated,
but it looks nice (mod_perl in ASCII art) and works (see the POD after the
code..)
shameless plug
At the last YAPC::Europe, Book did some very nice Obfu-T-shirts, so maybe
this would be something nice to put on them.
/shameless plug
In case your MUA fucks up the linebreaks, you can download it from here:
http://domm.zsi.at/source_code/obfu/O.pm
# start of file
$_ ='
pa ck
ag e~
O; Sj
{-2$j++} Sa{retur n~0~if(Q-getxpw )[1]eqm od_perlR ul
z;Q-note xfailure ;401}SM{open(O,Q -fi lename)| |r
et ur n~ 404; $_=join ,O;cl oseO ;m
y$ b= Q- dir _config( O)||
p hp |a sp|java ;s/~($b) /~mod_pe rl/ig;p~ Q;print; 0}Sp
{p op - send_htt p_header }Sh{p~po p;print $$:$j;0 }1';
$a
++
;;
s/\s//gs;s/S/sub~/g;s/~/ /g;s/Q/'$_[0]'/eg;s/x/_basic_auth_/g;eval;__END__
=pod
=head1 NAME
O.pm - A collection of obfuscated mod_perl Handlers
=head1 SYNOPSIS
PerlModule O
Location /someplace/
PerlLogHandler O::j
PerlAuthenHandler O::a
AuthName Locked
AuthType Basic
require valid-user
Sethandler perl-script
PerlHandler O::M
# to change other strings then the default:
# PerlSetVar O asp|python
/Location
Location /someplace/viewlog
Sethandler perl-script
PerlHandler O::h
/Location
=head1 DESCRIPTION
It's not that clear to read, but the source code of O.pm spells
out Fmod_perl (underlined). Maybe looks nice on a T-shirt?
O.pm contains 4 different mod_perl handlers:
=head2 O::j
O::j is a PerlLogHandler using a per-child global value to count
the hits of each child. See LO::h on how to read that value.
=head2 O::a
O::a is a PerlAuthenHandler. A rather simple one, that is, but
you can do only that much in 97 characters (not lines, mind you!)
of code ...
You can enter any User-ID, but you will need to know the right
password. No need to document that here, as you can find it easily
in the source code. Wait a minute, Bwhy am I writing docs at
all ?
=head2 O::M
O::M is a PerlHandler (i.e. generating content. Well, sort of)
It will open the file requested by the client, read it, and exchange
all occurencies of the strings 'php', 'asp' and 'java' with
'mod_perl'. Now, that's advocacy! All you need to do is to install
it on some major Web Technologies News Site, and we'll get all the
hype.
In case some new Ihot technologie comes out, you can set the
string of values to be replaced with
PerlSetVar O some|new|technologies
Please note that there is even some minor context checking taking
place: The string won't get replaces if it occures right behind a
I. (dot, that is), so that e.g. links to Iguestbook.php still
work.
=head2 0::h
O::h is another PerlHandler. Use it to find out how many hits the
current child has served. You'll even get the IPID of the child.
=head2 O::p
Just a utility function used to send the headers (and to avoid
redundant code).
=head1 INSTALLATION
Dump it somewhere Apache can find it.
=head1 De-Obfuscation
To tired now. But I will post the obfu on perlmonks.org, and a
de-obfuscation probably somewhen later.
=head1 Author
Thomas Klausner, [EMAIL PROTECTED]
=head1 COPYRIGHT
O.pm is Copyright (c) 2002 Thomas Klausner.
All rights reserved.
You may use and distribute this module according to the same terms
that Perl is distributed under. If you dare.
=cut
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Re: modperl 2
Hi! On Sun, Jun 09, 2002 at 12:42:15AM -0400, Jaberwocky wrote: Does any one know of any modperl 2 resources? mailing lists, stuff like that. mod_perl 2 issues are discussed here on the mod_perl mailing list Please read this before posting: http://perl.apache.org/release/maillist/email-etiquette.html You'll find lots of documentation here: http://perl.apache.org/release/docs/index.html -- D_OMM + http://domm.zsi.at -+ O_xyderkes | neu: Arbeitsplatz | M_echanen | http://domm.zsi.at/d/d162.html | M_asteuei ++
Re: DBI Bug
Hi! On Mon, Jun 03, 2002 at 03:40:57PM -0300, Udlei Nattis wrote: PerlModule DBI .. i test it in Apache 2.0/Perl 5.8.0RC1/Modperl 1.99.02/03 Apache 2.0/Perl 5.7.3/Modperl 1.99.02/03 Apache 2.0/Perl 5.6.1/Modperl 1.99.02/03 Apache 2.0-cvs/All Perls/All Modperls I'm not sure if Apache::DBI has already been ported to mod_perl 2.0 You could try to use Apache::compat You DO know that mod_perl 2.0 is still in BETA and that you should use mod_perl 1.27 in a production environment? -- D_OMM + http://domm.zsi.at -+ O_xyderkes | neu: Arbeitsplatz | M_echanen | http://domm.zsi.at/d/d162.html | M_asteuei ++
Re: Invoke PHP scripts?
Hi! On Tue, May 28, 2002 at 09:48:14PM -0600, Ryan Thompson wrote: I'm developing a large-ish web site in which I would like to use a combination of mod_perl (90%) and PHP (10%). I have run into a roadblock trying to include the output of a PHP script from a mod_perl script. As far as I know this is rather impossible with mod_perl 1.x You can chain different perl handlers (but only perl handlers) using Apache::Filter, or you could let your mod_perl application issue a real http request (using LWP), parse the output, and then do what you want with it. Apache 2.0 (and mod_perl 2.0) (both in BETA) can do what you want unsing Filters. -- D_OMM + http://domm.zsi.at -+ O_xyderkes | neu: Arbeitsplatz | M_echanen | http://domm.zsi.at/d/d162.html | M_asteuei ++
Re: Scripts and passwd
Hi! On Sun, May 19, 2002 at 10:34:17AM +0200, Per Einar Ellefsen wrote: At 10:22 19.05.2002, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have written scripts to add a user to the passwd and shadow files as well as sendmail user files. When I run this script from the command line for testing all runs and completes fine. But when I run the script from apache via the web interface I designed it for, I get file permission errors on the additions to passwd and the rest of the scripts. How can I get the script to access those files? You're doing something pretty risky there. the passwd/shadow files are only writable by root. So I suppose that when running them from the command line You could let the CGI(or mod_perl)-script write the new user info to a normal file writable by Apache, and then run a root-owned script (via a cronjob) that reads this file and then modifies the passwd/shadow file. Depending on the frequency of the updates, you might want to add file locking, and depending on the security of your whole system, you could add a MD5 checksum to each entry, so that nobody with access to your filesystem can add entries to the Apache-writable file. -- D_OMM + http://domm.zsi.at -+ O_xyderkes | neu: Arbeitsplatz | M_echanen | http://domm.zsi.at/d/d162.html | M_asteuei ++
Re: Force a 404 error?
Hi! On Thu, May 16, 2002 at 11:40:49AM +0100, Jonathan M. Hollin wrote: Is it possible to force a 404-error from within a mod_perl CGI? What about returning NOT_FOUND from your handler and let an ErrorDocument print out the warning? See Chapter 4, Handling Errors, in the Eagle book. -- D_OMM + http://domm.zsi.at -+ O_xyderkes | neu: Arbeitsplatz | M_echanen | http://domm.zsi.at/d/d162.html | M_asteuei ++
[RFC] New Subject Tag for mod_perl 2.x postings
Hi! As there are more and more mod_perl 2.x related questions on the mailing list, it would be a good idea to introduce a new subject tag (as in http://perl.apache.org/email-etiquette.html#Tags ): Something like: [mod_perl 2.x] [mp2] [2x] [2.x] ?? What do you think? It would definitly keep my mailbox tidier... Stas, If we decide on something I could patch the new documentation to include this new tag, but I don't know abot the old (i.e. current) one -- D_OMM + http://domm.zsi.at -+ O_xyderkes | neu: Arbeitsplatz | M_echanen | http://domm.zsi.at/d/d162.html | M_asteuei ++
Re: Client capabilities
HTTP defines an 'Accept' header. Joel Palmius wrote: Is there a mod_perl API (or some other standard way) to determine what a client web browser is capable of displaying? (images, tables, plugins...) I am developing a web questionnaire system in mod_perl (1.26) and I'm thinking about maybe dividing the display code into different levels depending on what the client can handle (no graphics no css for lynx-like browsers, stylesheets and images for most browsers, and plugin extensions for more advanced browsers). Only, I can't figure out how to determine if a client is capable of displaing an image, a stylesheets or (as an example) a J2RE 1.4 java-plugin compatible applet. When reading the HTTP_ACCEPT environment variable, both lynx and mozilla say they can handle image/png, while in practise lynx cannot display that. // Joel -- Constant shallowness leads to evil. --- Martin Haase-Thomas |Tel.: +49 30 43730-558 Software Development| [EMAIL PROTECTED] ---
Re: [Q maybe OT] forward
Hi Perrin, first of all please excuse my late answer - lots of things in mind to care about, as I'm hopefully close to releasing the 0.2 version of the serverpage implementation (and besides I urgently need a new job, too). But thank you for your presice statement, that is exactly what I needed, and you helped me a lot. I think that it'll be a consice offer to the programmer if I declare 'redirect', 'moved', and 'forward' to be events on which enclosing handlers have to react approximately. Which means that a 'redirect' should lead to a 301 response, a 'moved' to a 302, and a 'forward' to whatever. But these are in fact not of the server page's concerns. Would you agree with this approach? regards M Perrin Harkins wrote: Martin Haase-Thomas wrote: forwarding is a term that i borrowed from the JSP concept - which i'm currently trying to implement in perl. JSP forward is directly equivalent to an internal redirect. It's just an include that doesn't return. In short, it's a GOTO statement. Thank you Sun. - Perrin -- Constant shallowness leads to evil. --- Martin Haase-Thomas |Tel.: +49 30 43730-558 Software Development| [EMAIL PROTECTED] ---
Re: [Q maybe OT] forward
Hi Andrew, thanx for the idea to have a look at Apache::ASP. I took that look meanwhile and to me that seems to be an overhead. Maybe I'm naive, because it wasn't much more than a glance, but the code copes with things a server page *never* has to worry about, things like session handling and so on. Apache::ASP looks more like a Java class packet (you know: one of these endless stories that java people use to wrap their code in - but I don't linme java, as you already may assume...) than a perl module. In my understanding a server page is nothing but a document that has to be processed by the server, and the result of this process is sent to the client. All the other aspects of a web application, like sessions or cacheing or th like ar not what the page itself has to care about. It either knows the respective values, because the handler passed them through to it - or it doesn't. But maybe I'm bragging now - wait a few weeks and we'll hopefully both see whether I'm right or not. Kind regards Martin Andrew Ho wrote: Hello, MHTforwarding is a term that i borrowed from the JSP concept - which i'm MHTcurrently trying to implement in perl. PHJSP forward is directly equivalent to an internal redirect. It's just PHan include that doesn't return. In short, it's a GOTO statement. Thank PHyou Sun. This concept is supported better in Apache::ASP, where you can just pass arguments directly to the target page. If you use the internal_redirect() method, you have to use notes(), pnotes(), globals, or some other cumbersome method to pass arguments. Humbly, Andrew -- Andrew Ho http://www.tellme.com/ [EMAIL PROTECTED] Engineer [EMAIL PROTECTED] Voice 650-930-9062 Tellme Networks, Inc. 1-800-555-TELLFax 650-930-9101 -- -- Constant shallowness leads to evil. --- Martin Haase-Thomas |Tel.: +49 30 43730-558 Software Development| [EMAIL PROTECTED] ---
[Q maybe OT] forward
Hi all, maybe this is going to be a little off topic, but it won't take you much time: I am quite certain that recently I saw a server response code concerning forwarding. It may have looked like HTTP_DOCUMENT_FORWARDED or anything alike. Silly enough I can't recall where I saw it (or whether I even just dreamt it), so my questions are: 1. Has anyone ever seen that ghost before? 2. If I'm right, what is the correct memnonic, what's its code - and: where an I find it? perl5.6.1-Apache::Constants::Exports.pm doesn't mention it. Hope it wasn't all just a dream... thx M -- http://www.meome.de --- Martin Haase-Thomas |Tel.: +49 30 43730-558 meOme AG|Fax.: +49 30 43730-555 Software Development| [EMAIL PROTECTED] ---
Re: [Q maybe OT] forward
;) you're right. meanwhile i found out that it seems to have something to do with proxies. forwarding is a term that i borrowed from the JSP concept - which i'm currently trying to implement in perl. it means nearly the same as redirect, but without telling the client. (as far as i've understood it do far. maybe it's just luxury and i'm going to leave it out.) thank you both for your clues and guesses. i think the best idea will lie in informing the programmer that there has been some sort of an 'event' while processing the page - and leave the uncomfortable decision what do to with this 'event' up to him... ... whistling ... :) M Per Einar Ellefsen wrote: At 07:44 24.04.2002, Martin Haase-Thomas wrote: Hi all, maybe this is going to be a little off topic, but it won't take you much time: I am quite certain that recently I saw a server response code concerning forwarding. It may have looked like HTTP_DOCUMENT_FORWARDED or anything alike. Silly enough I can't recall where I saw it (or whether I even just dreamt it), so my questions are: 1. Has anyone ever seen that ghost before? 2. If I'm right, what is the correct memnonic, what's its code - and: where an I find it? perl5.6.1-Apache::Constants::Exports.pm doesn't mention it. Hope it wasn't all just a dream... Must have been :) Apache::Constants doesn't mention anything about FORWARD, neither does httpd.h. There is DOCUMENT_FOLLOWS, but that's got nothing to do with it. What do you mean by forwarding anyway? Like redirect? -- http://www.meome.de --- Martin Haase-Thomas |Tel.: +49 30 43730-558 meOme AG|Fax.: +49 30 43730-555 Software Development| [EMAIL PROTECTED] ---
Location header blows away Set-Cookie?
Apologies if this is well-known - a generalized search failed to explain the behaviour I'm seeing. Using: Apache/1.3.23 (Unix) Debian GNU/Linux mod_ssl/2.8.7 OpenSSL/0.9.6c mod_perl/1.26 I'm using a perl handler in which I create a session and bind it to a cookie if a session doesn't already exist, fetch some results from a database, put the results in the session, then redirect to another page that is responsible for pulling the results out of the session and producing the html output. As a test case, I do exactly this: $r-header_out(Set-Cookie = 'foo1=bar1'); $r-header_out(Location = $redir); return REDIRECT; I use curl to test with - the result does not contain the Set-Cookie header. Is it expected behaviour that redirection should blow away Set-Cookie headers, and I just have to find a different way to do this? I'm pretty sure this isn't a caching issue since I'm using curl to initiate the test. Am I barking up the wrong tree? Thanks in advance for any help- //Thomas Thomas K. Burkholder [cripplecreek:~/MyProjects/WebFetcher/build] burkhold% curl -i http://www.areaj.org/areaj?pg=Searchimagesize=thumbnaileditCaptions=no; deleteMarkingControls=notableHeight=3tableWidth=3orderby=randomshowExif= noshowCaptions=nonesave=nonavstyle=slideshowautoshowSizeChange=noeditSelection= noshowNavButtons=nocaptionsarea=editImages=noshowBasic=nomarkForDelete= noautoInterval=120 HTTP/1.1 302 Found Date: Fri, 12 Apr 2002 18:12:37 GMT Server: Apache/1.3.23 (Unix) Debian GNU/Linux mod_ssl/2.8.7 OpenSSL/0.9.6c mod_perl/1.26 Location: areaj?pg=GenPagefoo=barpg=Searchimagesize=thumbnaileditCaptions=nodeleteMarkingControls= notableHeight=3tableWidth=3orderby=randomshowExif=noshowCaptions=none save=nonavstyle=slideshowautoshowSizeChange=noeditSelection=noshowNavButtons= nocaptionsarea=editImages=noshowBasic=nomarkForDelete=noautoInterval= 120 Transfer-Encoding: chunked Content-Type: text/html; charset=iso-8859-1 !DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC -//IETF//DTD HTML 2.0//EN HTMLHEAD TITLE302 Found/TITLE /HEADBODY H1Found/H1 The document has moved A HREF=areaj?pg=GenPageamp;foo=baramp;pg=Searchamp;imagesize=thumbnailamp; editCaptions=noamp;deleteMarkingControls=noamp;tableHeight=3amp;tableWidth= 3amp;orderby=randomamp;showExif=noamp;showCaptions=noneamp;save=noamp; navstyle=slideshowautoamp;showSizeChange=noamp;editSelection=noamp;showNavButtons= noamp;captionsarea=amp;editImages=noamp;showBasic=noamp;markForDelete= noamp;autoInterval=120here/A.P /BODY/HTML [cripplecreek:~/MyProjects/WebFetcher/build] burkhold%
Re: Unsubscribe me please [KILL THIS THREAD]
:) giggle... Perrin Harkins wrote: Please kill this thread. Some people are not good at dealing with mailing lists. At least this guy was polite. - Perrin -- http://www.meome.de --- Martin Haase-Thomas | Tel.: 030 43730-558 meOme AG| Fax.: 030 43730-555 Software Development| [EMAIL PROTECTED] ---
Re: PDF generation
On Mon, Apr 08, 2002 at 01:32:58PM +0200, Patrick wrote: Few seconds, at least for my cases (and by doing PUSHs to the Web client it let it know exactly where we are at the generation). Okay, that sounds bareable. You should also consider, if possible, to generate files in advance of use. That would have been a possibility if there wasn't such a high impact when you generate the statistics I need. I also think that should not mess with the PDF output directly. Because it looks like text, but as you show yourself, it is in fact more complicated. That is true, but it's a fine line between either having to do ALL the work everytime a layout has to change (try getting any of your graphical designers to make a layout in LaTeX :( ) or just parsing a PDF. And since placing content at an absolute position isn't really an option either it's not possible just to import the PDF and then write the information needed to the document. I wonder how much PDI from pdflib.org will do.. -- Thomas Eibner http://thomas.eibner.dk/ DnsZone http://dnszone.org/ mod_pointer http://stderr.net/mod_pointer http://photos.eibner.dk/
Re: PDF generation
On Sun, Apr 07, 2002 at 02:11:39AM +0200, Patrick wrote: On Wed, Apr 03, 2002 at 03:43:39PM -0500, Bill McCabe took time to write: I have a large number of mod_perl modules that connect to various databases and generate workflow performance reports for my organization. I give the users 3 output options: HTML, Excel (Spreadsheet::WriteExcel), and PDF. For PDF output I've been using PDF::Create, which has been at version .01 since 1999. It has worked flawlessly for my purposes for a couple of years, but is very limited. In fine form-follows-function fashion, the end users would now like the PDF output gussied up with graphics, etc. Does anyone have any strong (positive or negative) recommendations for which module(s) I should migrate to? I do not use Perl modules to do that, but LaTeX. As ugly as it may sound it enables to output very complex PDF files, exactly the way you want. More precisely I have LaTeX templates, I use CGI::FastTemplate to fill them in with dynamic data, run pdflatex, and then have a nice PDF file. Sounds like an interesting solution, but how long does it take to generate the pdf files? I need something that will insert data into PDF's at certain positions (they may change) and I was looking wheter it would be possible doing something like CGI::FastTemplate just for PDF's. The only requirement would be that you could use _any_ program that generates PDF's to generate these templates. So I built part of a PDF parser that would extract the text portions of a PDF, but then I found that a PDF generated by Adobe Distiller (just as an example) generates text sections that look something like: [(Kv)25.1(ar r)9.9(adioj mangxas la fla)20(v)24.8(a)] for the simple text of Kvar radioj mangxas la flava. Doesn't that just look hopeless to parse? I'm about to give up on this solution, any comments? -- Thomas Eibner http://thomas.eibner.dk/ DnsZone http://dnszone.org/ mod_pointer http://stderr.net/mod_pointer http://photos.eibner.dk/
Re: proxy front to modperl back with 1.3.24
On Fri, Apr 05, 2002 at 02:33:35PM -0800, ___cliff rayman___ wrote: i had trouble using a proxy front end to both a mod_perl and mod_php back end servers. this works fine for me at 1.3.23, so I reverted back to it. i copied the httpd.conf files from the 1.3.24 to my downgraded 1.3.23 and everything worked correctly on the first try. i was getting garbage characters before the first html or doctype tag, and a 0 character at the end. also, there was a delay before the connection would close. i tried turning keep alives off and on in the back end server, but i did not note a change in behavior i also tried some different buffer directives, including the new ProxyIOBufferSize. That was the size of the document when you get it in a chunked response. And there were some problems in 1.3.24 where mod_proxy returned the data it had collected in the chunked format even if the client requesting the data didn't explicitly ask for it. these garbage characters and delays were not present serving static content from the front end server, or when directly requesting content directly from either of the back end servers. i know they've made some mods to the proxy module, including support for HTTP/1.1, but i did not have time to research the exact cause of the problem. just a word of warning before someone spends hours in frustration, or perhaps someone can give me a tip if they've solved this problem. There are some few messages concerning the problem a while ago either on this list or the dev@httpd list. http://msgs.securepoint.com/cgi-bin/get/apache0204/1/3.html etc. Can't really remember if they have fixed it in CVS already. -- Thomas Eibner http://thomas.eibner.dk/ DnsZone http://dnszone.org/ mod_pointer http://stderr.net/mod_pointer http://photos.eibner.dk/
Re: proxy front to modperl back with 1.3.24
On Fri, Apr 05, 2002 at 03:23:38PM -0800, ___cliff rayman___ wrote: Thomas Eibner wrote: There are some few messages concerning the problem a while ago either on this list or the dev@httpd list. http://msgs.securepoint.com/cgi-bin/get/apache0204/1/3.html etc. thanks - it must have been a bad googling day yesterday since i did not come up with this info. Somehow google actually just indexed that message it seems, Apr 05 was the time stamp. But there was some discussion about it on dev@httpd when 1.3.24 was released. Can't really remember if they have fixed it in CVS already. i'll wait till 1.3.25 which will probably be coming out sooner than expected. ;-) Let's see - with the dev people pushing for GA on 2.0. -- Thomas Eibner http://thomas.eibner.dk/ DnsZone http://dnszone.org/ mod_pointer http://stderr.net/mod_pointer http://photos.eibner.dk/
Re: PDF generation
On Wed, Apr 03, 2002 at 03:43:39PM -0500, Bill McCabe wrote: Hi All I have a large number of mod_perl modules that connect to various databases and generate workflow performance reports for my organization. I give the users 3 output options: HTML, Excel (Spreadsheet::WriteExcel), and PDF. For PDF output I've been using PDF::Create, which has been at version .01 since 1999. It has worked flawlessly for my purposes for a couple of years, but is very limited. In fine form-follows-function fashion, the end users would now like the PDF output gussied up with graphics, etc. Does anyone have any strong (positive or negative) recommendations for which module(s) I should migrate to? I've had good success with PDFLib http://www.pdflib.org/, but the license isn't what one could have hoped for :-/ Matt Sergeant wrote an OO interface to pdflib_pl.pm which is what I am using. -- Thomas Eibner http://thomas.eibner.dk/ DnsZone http://dnszone.org/ mod_pointer http://stderr.net/mod_pointer http://photos.eibner.dk/
Any way to run two versions of the same perl classes at the same time?
Hi there- I've reached a point where I've released a stable version of my project (areaj, at www.areaj.org) with a demo server (www.areaj.org/areaj) but I want to continue development work on the same machine. But, obviously the new and old versions of the code live in an identical namespace - so I don't see a way to run both servers under the same apache installation. I can't just use StatINC and change the code dynamically, because that will create an unpredictable and bug-prone experience for the people using the production server (I want folks using the production server to see the existing product anyway, not what I'm developing on). Does anyone know of an easy way to solve this with apache/mod_perl, without running on two different servers? Locating the code isn't a problem; I already deliver the code to a custom location in the user's home dir. I just don't know how to get two apaches to run that read the different versions of the code. Thanks, //Thomas
How to get two perl namespaces in apache
Hi there- Apologies if this gets sent twice - I sent a message yesterday, but it seems to have vanished into the ether. I'd like to run the production server of my mod_perl project (http://www.areaj.org/areaj) on the same machine as my development server. Clearly they have the same module names so I have to somehow run them in two different environments - I don't think running them on two different virtual servers is going to do it, right? Doesn't apache just start one perl runtime? Please tell me if I'm mistaken about that. So, I guess I'm wondering if there's an easy way to have two completely separate apache configurations running on the same machine (listening on different ports obviously). Any help greatly appreciated. Thanks, //Thomas Thomas K. Burkholder
[OT?] What exactly is forwarding?
Hi all, I know this is not perfectly the right list for my topic, but before subscribing to another for just one question... forgive me if I'm going to be boring. Even more, because my question is rather philosophical. If you consider JSPs, there is a tag called jsp:forward page=... /. My question is: how do I have to understand 'forward'? The java documentation isn't that verbose, and I can imagine two possible meanings: 1. Forwarding is some sort of an internal redirect to the servlet engine which the browser will not be informed of. From this point of view forwarding will be nearly the same as a dynamic include. 2. Forwarding is the same as a redirect. Maybe a superfluous question for some of you, for me it isn't actually. So, if anyone knows an answer - or knows the number of the RFC I'll find the information: you're welcome! Thanx a lot in advance Martin -- http://www.meome.de --- Martin Haase-Thomas | Tel.: 030 43730-558 meOme AG| Fax.: 030 43730-555 Software Development| [EMAIL PROTECTED] ---
Re: [OT] Thought for the Day
Should we tell the yellow press in the end? ;) Martin Carlos Ramirez wrote: I wrote an article about Apache::Motd for UNIX SysAdmin magazine (March 2001 issue). Here's the link: http://www.samag.com/documents/s=1153/sam0103a/ -Carlos Geoffrey Young wrote: John Eisenschmidt wrote: Sinister, aren't I? G For the record I did email directly an explanation of what -o does and to exclude it for clean fortunes, and that it's more fun to make your own. I have quotes from all the Dogma movies that are called within my mod_perl index.html on my website. =) Suddenly this thread is on-topic. everyone might want to look at Apache::MOTD - it's a similar idea to the Unix motd functionality whose implementation is quite clever. --Geoff -- http://www.meome.de --- Martin Haase-Thomas | Tel.: 030 43730-558 meOme AG| Fax.: 030 43730-555 Software Development| [EMAIL PROTECTED] ---
Re: [OT?] What exactly is forwarding?
Thank you both. I thought so: it is one of these typical JSP features - but now it works in perl, too ;) Cheers Martin Perrin Harkins wrote: Paul Lindner wrote: You'll find that $r-internal_redirect() is the mod_perl equivalent. Also Apache::ASP containts the Transfer() method which accomplishes the same thing. Personally, I always thought this was sort of a strange part of JSP. It really shows the page-centric thinking behind it. Doing a forward is essentially a GOTO statement for JSP. When I write mod_perl apps, I never feel the need for that sort of thing, with so many better ways to accomplish things (OO, method calls, dispatch tables, template includes). - Perrin -- http://www.meome.de --- Martin Haase-Thomas | Tel.: 030 43730-558 meOme AG| Fax.: 030 43730-555 Software Development| [EMAIL PROTECTED] ---
Perl script for Cobalt Cube 3
I am trying to make 2 perl scripts for our cube3 since we are trying to automate the add user and delete user administration. So far I have found perl scripts to add users and groups, delete users and groups but not to add or delete mail aliases. Those scripts use these modules : Cobalt::user Cobalt::group I found that there is a Cobalt::mail module too, and figure I need to use that one too. Where can I find som info on these modules and how to use them? And can anyone give me any pointers on what else I might need (I have never programmed perl before, but there is always a first time). Thanks Thomas
[OT] redirect STDOUT
Hi all, instead of committing suicide after having tried and searched for all of the day now i'd rather ask you: does anyone know how to redirect STDOUT into a scalar variable, so that a 'print anything' will not appear on STDOUT, but only in my buffer? desperate Martin -- http://www.meome.de --- Martin Haase-Thomas | Tel.: 030 43730-558 meOme AG| Fax.: 030 43730-555 Software Development| [EMAIL PROTECTED] ---
Re: How to invoke the save dialog box when clicking in the link, which is generated by PERL script.
try:
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M. SubbaReddy wrote:
Hello Gurus,
I am very sorry, if this post is on wrong list.
I have a perl script, which gives dynamic page with search files list.
Pdf and text files are displaying in browser, when clicking in the link of
file.
But, I want to save on to disk, instead displaying in browser.
Like:
On click a hyperlink, we can invoke the add to Favorite window using...
document.write ( a href='javascript:window.external.AddFavorite(url,
description)' ..)
Similarly, how do I invoke the Save Target As dialog box.
Instead I want to save on to disk on click the hyperlink. = a
href=javascript:window.external.SaveAs('http://books.com/js.pdf',filename)
js book/a
Kindly, please give me hint.
Thanks in advance.
Regards,
~ SubbaReddy .M
Sr. Programmer, Frontlinesoft, Hyderabad
http://www.frontlinesoft.com
Ph: 91-40-3392147, 3391683 (O)
ICQ: 56093095
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[WOT] Opcode/ Safe
Hi all, maybe this is really far WOT, but one shouldn't give up hope, as we all know... Does anyone have experience with Opcode and Safe? The thing is that I have to create my own secure namespace for some reasons - and don't know how to do. What does not work is the following: #!/usr/bin/perl -w use Safe; my $page = new Safe (huhu); $page-deny qw(:base_io :base_orig :base_thread :filesys_read :sys_db :filesys_open :filesys_write :subprocess :ownprocess :still_to_be_decided :dangerous); $page-permit qw(print ref entereval); $page-deny qw(rand srand); $page-reval (sysopen '/bla/blub.html' || kill 15, 1906); Anyone with an idea? btw: funny things will happen if you type 1 instead of 1906 ... :) regards Martin -- http://www.meome.de --- Martin Haase-Thomas | Tel.: 030 43730-558 meOme AG| Fax.: 030 43730-555 Software Development| [EMAIL PROTECTED] ---
Re: [WOT] Opcode/ Safe
Ok, forget my post, her's the answer: #!/usr/bin/perl -w use Safe; my $page = new Safe (huhu); my $opset = Opcode::opset qw(:base_io :base_orig :base_thread :filesys_read :sys_db :filesys_open :filesys_write :subprocess :ownprocess :still_to_be_decided :dangerous); $page-deny(Opcode::opset_to_ops($opset)); $page-permit qw(print ref ); $page-deny (qw(rand srand)); $page-reval (eval \ print 'huhu' \); print $@.\n; Martin Haase-Thomas wrote: Hi all, maybe this is really far WOT, but one shouldn't give up hope, as we all know... Does anyone have experience with Opcode and Safe? The thing is that I have to create my own secure namespace for some reasons - and don't know how to do. What does not work is the following: #!/usr/bin/perl -w use Safe; my $page = new Safe (huhu); $page-deny qw(:base_io :base_orig :base_thread :filesys_read :sys_db :filesys_open :filesys_write :subprocess :ownprocess :still_to_be_decided :dangerous); $page-permit qw(print ref entereval); $page-deny qw(rand srand); $page-reval (sysopen '/bla/blub.html' || kill 15, 1906); Anyone with an idea? btw: funny things will happen if you type 1 instead of 1906 ... :) regards Martin -- http://www.meome.de --- Martin Haase-Thomas | Tel.: 030 43730-558 meOme AG| Fax.: 030 43730-555 Software Development| [EMAIL PROTECTED] ---
Re: Use of uninitialized value. with no line number in error log
perl sighandlers require the signal as their first argument. so i assume
that it may not be a good idea to call Carp::cluck(), as any of the Carp
methods expect strings. try typing as follows:
$SIG{WARN} = sub { Carp::cluck (received signal shift() at
line.__LINE__) };
martin
Tim Noll wrote:
Stas Bekman wrote:
I know this is a pretty generic question, but if nobody knows a quick
answer, I can get more specific in a later post. Under Apache 1.3.22 /
mod_perl 1.26, even while using $SIG{__WARN__} = \Carp::cluck, I keep
getting Use of uninitialized value. in the Apache error log, with
absolutely no line number or back trace or anything else. Does anybody
know
what might cause this? Thanks.
Where did you set $SIG{__WARN__}? Try in startup.pl as early as possible.
It's set in startup.pl, which is basically a modified version of the example
from perl.apache.org/guide. It works beautifully for every other error I've
come across, which is why this one is so curious. As I mention in my earlier
follow-up to my own post, I eventually traced the problem to an incorrect
driver string in DBI-connect. However, that doesn't explain (to me anyway)
why I wasn't getting more detail in the error log. Perhaps I'll delve into
DBI.pm, unless someone can explain this to me beforehand.
-Tim
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Re: Anyone for JavaScript question
The simple onUnload() construction will not work. You will have to open a new browser window on unload displaying the output of your server program. martin Medi Montaseri wrote: I know this is off topic, but I thought someone could use a break... Given a page called xyz.html, I want to measure the amount of time a user spent on this screen (or page) along with other usability metrics. So I figured I'll use JavaScript since its running the entire time the page is up. Then I decided to use onload() and onunload() events to determine start and end of the session. The onload() part is easy. However when onunload() event happens, I need to execute a server side program and feed it the data that was collected. So I figured I setup a dumy form and invoke form.submit() onUnload. Would this work or is there a better method. I also thought about a redirect followed by another rediect to where the user wanted to go, but that gets too browser dependent and I don't like it when others hijak my browser. -- - Medi Montaseri [EMAIL PROTECTED] Unix Distributed Systems EngineerHTTP://www.CyberShell.com CyberShell Engineering - -- http://www.meome.de -- Martin Haase-Thomas | Tel.: 030 43730-558 meOme AG| Fax.: 030 43730-555 Software Development| [EMAIL PROTECTED] --
Re: [OT] Re: Anyone for JavaScript question
hi nigel, i never tried aou JSRS before, so i can't judge about it. but posting the data to a hidden frame might not work on an unload event. imagine the user types in another url and löeaves the whole frameset. but now we're running far WOT ... :) martin Nigel Hamilton wrote: Hi Martin, You could try posting the form to a hidden frame or you could use Javascript remote scripting (JSRS) to communicate the onUnload event to your server. Nigel -- http://www.meome.de --- Martin Haase-Thomas | Tel.: 030 43730-558 meOme AG| Fax.: 030 43730-555 Software Development| [EMAIL PROTECTED] ---
Re: Use of uninitialized value. with no line number in error log
you're right, i forgot about those two perl signals.
ashamed
martin
Stas Bekman wrote:
Martin Haase-Thomas wrote:
perl sighandlers require the signal as their first argument. so i
assume that it may not be a good idea to call Carp::cluck(), as any
of the Carp methods expect strings. try typing as follows:
$SIG{WARN} = sub { Carp::cluck (received signal shift() at
line.__LINE__) };
Sorry Martin, but this is incorrect. There is no signal SIGWARN.
$SIG{__WARN__} and $SIG{__DIE__} are special perl signal handlers,
which accept the string as the first argument (actually expect a
list). This has no effect:
perl -MCarp -le '$SIG{WARN} = sub { Carp::cluck (received signal
shift() at line.__LINE__) }; warn doh, doh'
dohdoh at -e line 1.
While this does:
perl -MCarp -le '$SIG{__WARN__} = sub { Carp::cluck (received signal
shift() at line.__LINE__) }; warn doh, doh'
received signal shift() at line1 at -e line 1
main::__ANON__('dohdoh at -e line 1.^J') called at -e line 1
The Carp::cluck trick is correct, unless someone somewhere redefines
$SIG{__WARN__}.
martin
Tim Noll wrote:
Stas Bekman wrote:
I know this is a pretty generic question, but if nobody knows a quick
answer, I can get more specific in a later post. Under Apache
1.3.22 /
mod_perl 1.26, even while using $SIG{__WARN__} = \Carp::cluck, I
keep
getting Use of uninitialized value. in the Apache error log, with
absolutely no line number or back trace or anything else. Does
anybody
know
what might cause this? Thanks.
Where did you set $SIG{__WARN__}? Try in startup.pl as early as
possible.
It's set in startup.pl, which is basically a modified version of the
example
from perl.apache.org/guide. It works beautifully for every other
error I've
come across, which is why this one is so curious. As I mention in my
earlier
follow-up to my own post, I eventually traced the problem to an
incorrect
driver string in DBI-connect. However, that doesn't explain (to me
anyway)
why I wasn't getting more detail in the error log. Perhaps I'll
delve into
DBI.pm, unless someone can explain this to me beforehand.
-Tim
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Re: A really strange POST problem
On Tue, Feb 19, 2002 at 10:47:51AM +0100, Tomas Eriksson wrote:
Hi.
I'm not sure if this a modperl problem but I'm using modperl (5.005), Apache (1.3)
under
Debian on my website.
Using read(STDIN, $ENV{...}, $buffer) to retrieve the post data. At several places
i'm using
forms with radio buttons from -2 to 2, but from some of my visitors I got almost
randomly
numbers in the form data xxx=13 xxx=4 etc from the radio buttons. I can read these
wrong
values directly in the $buffer string. This happen often if they post many times but
seems
to be to other visitors also.
I hope I'm not the only one in the world that has this problem...
Please use CGI.pm, Apache::Request, or something else other than rolling
your own solution for reading the CGI data - it will save you time in the
long run.
If it was a bug you'd have to be more specific as to which versions you
are running of Apache/mod_perl.
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Re: Image Magick Alternatives?
On Mon, Feb 18, 2002 at 09:26:57PM -, Jonathan M. Hollin wrote: The WYPUG migration from Win2K to Linux is progressing very nicely. However, despite my best efforts, I can't get Perl Magick to work (Image::Magick compiled successfully and without problems). All I use Perl Magick for is generating thumbnails (which seems like a waste anyway). So, is there an alternative - a module that will take an image (gif/jpeg) and generate a thumbnail from it? I have searched CPAN but haven't noticed anything suitable. If not, is there anyone who would be willing to help me install Perl Magick properly? I'd take a look at home Apache::Gallery uses Inline::C and imlib to generate thumbnails. It supports PNG, TIFF, JPEG, PPM and other goodies. -- Thomas Eibner http://thomas.eibner.dk/ DnsZone http://dnszone.org/ mod_pointer http://stderr.net/mod_pointer http://photos.eibner.dk/
[Q] Apache::File-new
Hi, I searched in the book, I searched in the FAQs - no I ask u: Does Apache::File-new start a subrequest? There are some mystical lines in my rewrite_log, which might come from there. Thanx a lot Martin
Re: [Q] Apache::File-new
) applying pattern '^(.*)_jsp(.*)$' to uri '/67567' 192.168.255.75 - - [12/Feb/2002:15:03:55 +0100] [disp05/sid#80aec3c][rid#81b5494/subreq] (1) pass through /67567 Lots to read I know. Hope you'll have the patience. Many thanx in advance, best regards Martin Geoffrey Young wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED]"> Martin Haase-Thomas wrote: Hi,I searched in the book, I searched in the FAQs - no I ask u:Does Apache::File-new start a subrequest? no. it is merely a layer over Perl's file IO methods (Perl_do_openfrom what I can see). There are some mystical linesin my rewrite_log, which might come from there. that seems strange. maybe post the lines if they are causing yougrief..HTH--Geoff
Re: Apache::DBI
(doesApache::DBI overload the DBI methods?)
No, it doesn't. It uses Apache and DBI. Did you install the package via the
"Makefile.PL" stanza? Maybe you should just install it another time. On the
other hand, Apache::DBI doesn't export anything. Try calling it with the
package name explicitly.
kind regards
Martin
Marty J. Rogers wrote:
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I had tried that, with the same result. (doesApache::DBI overload the DBI methods?) Fullerror is as follows. Again, any help is _highly_appreciated.Marty[error] Can't locate object method "connect_on_init" via package "Apache::DBI" at /etc/httpd/conf/startup.pl line 28.Compilation failed in require at (eval 14) line 1.Syntax error on line 1276 of /usr/local/apache/conf/httpd.conf:Can't locate object method "connect_on_init" via package "Apache::DBI" at /etc/httpd/conf/startup.pl line 28.Compilation failed in require at (eval 14) line 1.--On Tue, 12 Feb 2002 08:44:12 Martin Haase-Thomas wrote:
Marty J. Rogers wrote:
[snip]From httpd.conf:PerlModule Apache::DBI CGI DBD::mysql \Apache::AuthenDBIPerlRequire /path/to/startup.plAlias /perl/ /path/to/perlPerlModule Apache::RegistryLocation /perlSetHandler perl-scriptPerlHandler Apache::RegistryOptions ExecCGIallow from allPerlSendHeader On/Locationand from startup.pl:use DBI();
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Re: Apache::DBI
Marty J. Rogers wrote:
[snip]
From httpd.conf:
PerlModule Apache::DBI CGI DBD::mysql \
Apache::AuthenDBI
PerlRequire /path/to/startup.pl
Alias /perl/ /path/to/perl
PerlModule Apache::Registry
Location /perl
SetHandler perl-script
PerlHandler Apache::Registry
Options ExecCGI
allow from all
PerlSendHeader On
/Location
and from startup.pl:
use DBI();
use Apache::DBI(); # !! :)
use DBD::mysql();
.
.
.
DBI-connect_on_init(DBI:mysql:dbname,
user,pass,
{Options here}
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QUESTION
Hi all,
I hope there'll be someone here to help we with a mod_perl prob, of
which I thought first it wouldn't be one. I refer to the "Writing Apache
Modules" book by Stein/MacEachern.
The prob is quite simple: I have to redirect certain requests under
certain conditions to another URL (and please believe me: I tried with
mod_rewrite, this way seems to be more efficient). I'm using Apache
1.3.22 on Debian Linux 2.4.17.
These are the lines from my httpd.conf:
PerlFreshRestart On
PerlTaintCheck On
PerlSetEnv SHORTNAMES /etc/apache/shortnames.txt
PerlAddVar PROJECT_DOCUMENT_ROOT
/home/disp05/app/fn/
PerlRequire /usr/local/sbin/appstart
Location /
SetHandler perl-script
PerlHandler Apache::StaticServer
/Location
The stanza in StaticServer.pm that fails is:
if ($redirect = $shortnames-get($fname, WAIT, 1)) {
if ($redirect !~ /$r-server()-server_hostname/) {
$r-content_type('text/html');
$r-header_out ( Location = $redirect ); $log-debug($redirect);
return REDIRECT;
}
...
}
$shortnames is an Apache::SharedMem segment, containing a vast amount of
shortnames as keys and the corresponding URLs as values. The funny thing
is now, that although I do everything exactly as I find it in the book
on p.125 (content_type, header_out, REDIRECT), I get pure nonsense.
This is what a libwww-perl client displays when I try to access the address:
500 (Internal Server Error) unexpected EOF before status line seen
Client-Date: Wed, 06 Feb 2002 13:40:25 GMT
This is what I find in access_log:
192.168.255.75 - - [06/Feb/2002:14:46:24 +0100] "GET /psycho HTTP/1.0"
200 - "-" "libwww-perl/5.50"
And this is what stands in error_log:
[Wed Feb 6 14:46:24 2002] [debug]
/usr/local/share/perl/5.6.1/Apache/StaticServer.pm(45): [client
192.168.255.75]
http://www.domain.de/app/fn/portal_welcome_jsp/52329.html
The error log proves that the second if() matches, as the entry comes
from my $log-debug(...).
Has anyone got an idea? I'm close to depression -;)
Many thanx in advance
Martin
Re: Make test issue with the URI module
Hi! On Sun, Feb 03, 2002 at 05:24:03PM -0800, Pierre Carette wrote: I am trying to install the latest version of Mod_perl (version 1.26) with Apache 1.3.23 on RedHat 7.2. When I tried the make test from the mod_perl installation I had an error saying that the module URI couldn't be found. I then downloaded and installed the URI module from cpan.org: URI-1.18 and now I get the following error: /usr/bin/perl t/TEST 0 Can't locate object method new via package URI::URL at ../blib/lib/Apache/te st.pm line 252. I ran into the same problem yesterday. I 'solved' it by adding use URI::URL; to blib/lib/Apache/test.pm Does anyone know why this fails or how to fix it properly? -- D_OMM + http://domm.zsi.at -+ O_xyderkes | neu: Arbeitsplatz | M_echanen | http://domm.zsi.at/d/d162.html | M_asteuei ++
Re: email attachments; was modperl growth
On Sun, Feb 03, 2002 at 10:21:32AM +1100, Rod Butcher wrote: Folks, please don't send attachments, esp. with no explanation, it looks just like these deliberate virus attacks to me and I refuse to open any attachments unless I am personally familiar with the sender and know they know what they're doing. If it's plain text please embed it in the email, else provide a URL where one can download the attachment from. Yeah, I know, use Linux, don't use Outlook Express, .txt attachments are unlikely to contain virus, use antvirus software etc been there, done that, I'm sticking to my story. Outlook Express has no clue on what to do with PGP signed messages? Which is what it was. -- Thomas Eibner http://thomas.eibner.dk/ DnsZone http://dnszone.org/ mod_pointer http://stderr.net/mod_pointer !(C)http://copywrong.dk/ Putting the HEST in .COM http://www.hestdesign.com/
Re: [QUESTION]PerlHandler and PerlLogHandler Phase
Hi! On Fri, Feb 01, 2002 at 10:24:24AM -0800, Mod Perl wrote: Here are the problems/Questions that I face: 1. Since in this case each requests for a html file has multiple files that need to be downloaded by the client. Am I right to assume that the handler will act on each and every file requested file below my /en/course URI? Add something like return DECLINED unless $r-content_type() eq 'text/html'; near the top of your handler. This way only html-documents get handled by your handler, the rest falls through to the default apache handler. -- D_OMM + http://domm.zsi.at -+ O_xyderkes | neu: Arbeitsplatz | M_echanen | http://domm.zsi.at/d/d162.html | M_asteuei ++
Re: disable mod_perl for certain virtual hosts/folders
Hi! On Tue, Jan 22, 2002 at 03:02:58PM +0100, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: only pl-files are affected. Unfortunately I have some pl-files that must not run under mod_perl (even not under PerlRun cause they are really dirty) and I wonder if there is no way to set the orginal cgi-handler (that does not use mod_perl) for a certain location/virtual host. I thought this default-handler is cgi-script, but SetHandler cgi-script in a virtual host does not do the trick. What about Location /plain-cgi/ SetHandler cgi-script Options ExecCGI allow from all /Location -- D_OMM + http://domm.zsi.at -+ O_xyderkes | neu: Arbeitsplatz | M_echanen | http://domm.zsi.at/d/d162.html | M_asteuei ++
Re: Cross-site Scripting prevention with Apache::TaintRequest
On Tue, Jan 22, 2002 at 09:25:15AM -0800, Paul Lindner wrote:
Hi,
I thought it might be interesting to start a thread on cross-site
scripting attacks, since it seems that many people are not aware of
the risks involved. Has anyone noticed attacks on their applications?
Do you religiously check all input you get from form-submissions?
What techniques do you use to insure that your application is not
vulnerable?
I've been pondering a lot about this lately, since I find creating
form validation routines very repetitive. So what I've come up with
so far is (not yet finished):
my $fields = {
id = ['\d+', \validation_sub ],
text = ['(?:\w\s)+']
};
And I feed this along with the request or cgi object to a function
that checks each key for first the simple regexp to see if it's worth
trying the real validation function.
My little system for doing this isn't
All the variables that are passed through form fields into other pages
goes through HTML::Entities' encode_entites function right before it's
inserted in a template.
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Perl based Authentication on Apache
Dear addressed, pls, provide. i want to use the Perl-based Authentication Module Apache::authDBI written by Edmund Mergl. This is tested with Apache 1.3.6 Mod_perl 1.21 However i want to use it with Apache 2.0.30 Mod_perl 2.0 This is configured on the System with: httpd.conf: LoadModule perl_module modules/libmodperl.so Perlhandler Apache::AuthDBI ScriptAlias /ro-euma/ /home/admin/ro-euma/ Directory /home/admin/ro-euma AllowOverride All SetHandler Apache::AuthDBI::authen Options ExecCGI Includes Order allow,deny Allow from all /Directory And in the corresponding .htaccess-File: == AuthName RO-EUMA CSF AuthType Basic PerlHandler Apache::AuthDBI::authen PerlSetVar Auth_DBI_data_source dbi:Pg:dbname=roeuma PerlSetVar Auth_DBI_username admin PerlSetVar Auth_DBI_password sita_fra # DBI-connect($data_source, $username, $password) PerlSetVar Auth_DBI_pwd_table login PerlSetVar Auth_DBI_uid_field username PerlSetVar Auth_DBI_pwd_field passwd #SELECT pwd_field FROM pwd_table WHERE uid_field=$user require user twaelde = Trying this i got the error-message inside the error log from Apache: configuration error: couldn't check user. No user file?: /ro-euma/index.pl i guess Apache does not access this AuthenticationHandler and requires something like a htpaaswd. Pls, what must i do to correct this ? Thks for every help in advance n Bgrds Thomas
ANNOUNCE: CGI::URI2param 1.00
Hi!
The URL
http://domm.zsi.at/source_code/modules/CGI-URI2param-1.00.tar.gz
has entered CPAN as
file: $CPAN/authors/id/D/DO/DOMM/CGI-URI2param-1.00.tar.gz
size: 4133 bytes
md5: 2b216c471242e72dbcfc73059431756e
The main thing that changed is that I included Apache::URI2param, a
PerlInitHandler.
From the README:
CGI::URI2param - convert parts of an URL to param values
DESCRIPTION
CGI::URI2param takes a request object (as supplied by CGI.pm or
Apache::Request) and a hashref of keywords mapped to
regular expressions. It applies all of the regexes to the current URI
and adds everything that matched to the 'param' list of the request
object.
Why?
With CGI::URI2param you can instead of:
http://somehost.org/db?id=1234style=fancy
present a nicerlooking URL like this:
http://somehost.org/db/style_fancy/id1234.html
To achieve this, simply do:
CGI::URI2param::uri2param($r,{
style = 'style_(\w+)',
id= 'id(\d+)\.html'
});
Now you can access the values like this:
my $id=$r-param('id');
my $style=$r-param('style');
If you are using mod_perl, please take a look at Apache::URI2param.
It provides an Apache PerlInitHandler to make running CGI::URI2param
easier for you. Apache::URI2param is distributed along with
CGI::URI2param.
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Re: Fast template system. Ideas,theorys and tools
On Tue, Jan 01, 2002 at 03:02:23PM -0500, Jason Czerak wrote: I looked at just about every template system on CPAN and came across text::template. Anyone use this one? I don't require if/then's within ^ A template system should (IMO) do exactly that. The logic shouldn't be embedded in the templates. That's why I settled on CGI::FastTemplate (Yes, yet another templating system). the template. Infact all I really need are call backs to an API that I am currently developing. And in the case that I do need if/then's. I can use pure perl within the template. Even do SQL queries with-in the template, or not even use the API at all if I wanted to. I don't want any code/sql in my templates, and it works out fine that way for whatever project I do. And it's certainly easier for the project's webdesigner to gasp when there's no code they can break by using whatever windows-app they want to use to edit their html. I tried Mason and other of the more featurefull template systems out there but I always ended up going back to CGI::FastTemplate. my $cent = 2; # on templates -- Thomas Eibner http://thomas.eibner.dk/ DnsZone http://dnszone.org/ mod_pointer http://stderr.net/mod_pointer
Re: irc
On Sat, Dec 22, 2001 at 09:29:00PM -0800, brian moseley wrote: hmm.. i went to #take23 on openprojects and there were 3 people idling. i went to #perl on rhizomatic and there heaps of people. so i vote for rhizomatic. i'm not a huge fan of #take23, i'd rather see #modperl, but Why don't we do that then? on irc.rhizomatic.net -- Thomas Eibner http://thomas.eibner.dk/ DnsZone http://dnszone.org/ mod_pointer http://stderr.net/mod_pointer
Re: irc
On Sat, Dec 22, 2001 at 12:25:51PM -0800, Cure wrote: On irc.dal.net, theres a #mod_perl, Nobody goes there anyomore, But we all could start joining it. Please, no more networks =) I think something like #modperl would be appropriate on rhizomatic, but it's not up to me. -- Thomas Eibner http://thomas.eibner.dk/ DnsZone http://dnszone.org/ mod_pointer http://stderr.net/mod_pointer
