Hey Ken, You are probably right. Your Apache::SSI module looks quite simple to extend, although the same can be said for HTML::Embperl::Syntax. The reason I was working with the Embperl module, was that I was wanting to change <!--#exec cgi="listsomething.cgi"--> calls to something faster. I rewrote the cgi's in Embperl, but needed a fast way of including them without requiring the HTML guy to learn Embperl and have to rewrite all his pages... and Embperl.v2's new Syntax::SSI module fit the bill. Either way you get access to mod_perl... although if Apache::SSI is extended, its easier to share with other mod_perl folks I suppose...
BTW, I did a couple of quick benchmarks. With the old mod_include system, page.shtml included headers, footers, and exec'd a CGI twice. On a production server (dual PIII-933 Mhz processors, SCSI, 512 MB) this resulted in 1.5 requests per second. By the end of the test (ApacheBench) the load was at 8 or 9. On my development system, I changed page.shtml in both places, so that <!--#exec cgi="listsomething.cgi"--> is now <!--#include virtual="listsomething.epl"-->. This results in 13 requests/second. This is actually on my workstation, which is running PostgreSQL, MySQL, X, and KDE, all on a PIII-550 Mhz system with an IDE drive and 384 MB of memory. By the end of the test (ApacheBench), the load was still less then 1. Steven, by hacked mod_include, do you mean that you hacked mod_include to support the OAS directive, or that Real Media did this? Ken Williams wrote: > > Wim & Steven, > > Wouldn't it be better to subclass Apache::SSI instead of > HTML::Embperl::Syntax::SSI ? That part of it would be really easy - the > hard part would be actually implementing the OAS directive actions. > > Wim Kerkhoff <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Steven Boger wrote: > >> > >> I've been netsearching for hours..... It's time to beg for help... > >> > >> My apache has a hacked mod_include that has a new directive, OAS: > >> > >> <!--OAS > >> SETUP="www.realmedia.com/Samples/lx.shtml@TopLeft,TopRight,BottomLeft, > >> BottomRight"--> > >> > >> <!--OAS AD="BottomRight"--> > >> > >> Can I somehow run those directives right from mod_perl???? > > > > Well... Since I've been spending several hours looking at the > > HTML::Embperl::Syntax::SSI module (Embperl.v2), I'm going to suggest > > that you might be able to extend Embperl's SSI syntax to do what the > > mod_include hack does. This means that can parse the directive, let OAS > > do its thing, and at the same time have direct access to the request > > object... > > > > But then, I know squat about OAS and what it does, so this may not be > > all that feasible :-)
