Any way for a PerlHandler to know what Location block it's in?

2005-06-08 Thread John Siracusa 
Confusing subject, simple question:

Location /foo/bar
  PerlSetVar  MyRoot /foo/bar
  SetHandler  perl-script
  PerlHandler MyModule
/Location

MyModule calls $r-dir_config('MyRoot') to get the /foo/bar path.

I want to ditch the  PerlSetVar MyRoot line because it will always have
the same value as the Location directiv above it.  Is there a way MyModule
can get /foo/bar using some other means?

(This is mod_perl 1, BTW)

-John

Re: Any way for a PerlHandler to know what Location block it's in?

2005-06-08 Thread Michael Peters 
John Siracusa wrote:
 Confusing subject, simple question:
 
 Location /foo/bar
   PerlSetVar  MyRoot /foo/bar
   SetHandler  perl-script
   PerlHandler MyModule
 /Location
 
 MyModule calls $r-dir_config('MyRoot') to get the /foo/bar path.
 
 I want to ditch the  PerlSetVar MyRoot line because it will always have
 the same value as the Location directiv above it.  Is there a way MyModule
 can get /foo/bar using some other means?

I feel almost silly saying this, but did you look at $r-location?
http://perl.apache.org/docs/1.0/api/Apache.html#_r_E_gt_location

-- 
Michael Peters
Developer
Plus Three, LP

Re: Any way for a PerlHandler to know what Location block it's in?

2005-06-08 Thread John Siracusa 
On 6/8/05, Geoffrey Young [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
 $r-location() ?

Duh, I'm an idiot.  Thanks :)

-John

Re: Any way for a PerlHandler to know what Location block it's in?

2005-06-08 Thread Dorian Taylor 
On Wed, Jun 08, 2005 at 12:00:23PM -0400, John Siracusa wrote:
 On 6/8/05, Geoffrey Young [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
  $r-location() ?
 
 Duh, I'm an idiot.  Thanks :)
 
 -John

$r-location will also return whatever's in a LocationMatch, Directory
and DirectoryMatch directive, should the scope of the request lay
in one of those. if you're simply clipping the location off the
front of the request uri you could potentially run into trouble.
you can always piggyback the Location directive specifically, using
the configuration api and use what you get back from that.

.d

Re: Any way for a PerlHandler to know what Location block it's in?

2005-06-08 Thread John Siracusa 
On 6/8/05, Dorian Taylor [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
 $r-location will also return whatever's in a LocationMatch, Directory
 and DirectoryMatch directive, should the scope of the request lay
 in one of those. if you're simply clipping the location off the
 front of the request uri you could potentially run into trouble.
 you can always piggyback the Location directive specifically, using
 the configuration api and use what you get back from that.

Thanks.  I realize that, but I only need it to work specifically for plain
old Location blocks.  I have sanity checks to make sure it really is a
prefix of the requested URI since I am indeed clipping it off the URI.

None of these paths have any representation in the file system, so path_info
is no help.  I thought about wandering the apache config using perl's
interface to that info but it seemed like too much trouble.  Is there a
better way to get the rest of the URI?

-John