[JOB] Job probably available soon

1999-11-03 Thread Robin Berjon
Hi, this is an informal job posting to announce that we will very likely be hiring soon. The job isn't there yet but we will want to find someone as fast as possible as soon as we move on to the next phase in our development, so if you are interested please send me your resume as well as

Perl Domination in CGI Programming

1999-11-03 Thread Stas Bekman
Perl Domination in CGI Programming? http://slashdot.org/askslashdot/99/10/20/1246241.shtml It seems to be a good candidate to be posted on perl.apache.org site, and to send people to, when the next "is perl/mod_perl good for CGI and why?" question hits the list. It was nice to see the names of

Re: Problems compiling mod_perl

1999-11-03 Thread Nick Moore
G'day all, I've been having similar problems to Michael Wright, building mod_perl-1.21 on Linux 2.0.36 (Debian slink) with apache 1.3.9 and perl 5.005_61. I've been trying a static build ... in the final link of httpd, two symbols (perl_eval_sv, perl_eval_pv) are used by mod_per

Re: setting cookies?

1999-11-03 Thread Andrei A. Voropaev
No. This is not true. If browser gets 401 in response to request with user authentication then it pops up the dialog box. And only if user clicks "Cancel" then it displays the Authentication failed document. Only if you send 403 then browser will not prompt user for new user name and password. A

RE: "DigExt" in user-agent hammering my site

1999-11-03 Thread Eric Cholet
Randal, This is a nice package, but I have some questions: > my $host = $r->get_remote_host; > return DECLINED if $host =~ /\.(holdit|stonehenge)\.com$/; You have host name lookups turned on? That's not very performance friendly. And you've just published how to get around your thro

Q:Embperl

1999-11-03 Thread Eugene B. Byrganov
Hi! I use HTML-Embperl-1.2b10: How make $http_headers_out{'Location'} ,so as redirect -- ó ÎÁÉÌÕÞÛÉÍÉ ÐÏÖÅÌÁÎÉÑÍÉ, å×ÇÅÎÉÊ âÙÒÇÁÎÏ×. Best regards, Eugene Byrganov mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]. work - http://www.inp.nsk.su/

Re: Perl Domination in CGI Programming

1999-11-03 Thread Jeffrey Baker
Stas Bekman wrote: [slashdot summary snipped] > Well, if the trend continues we ought to learn Java some day :) Ha! Well they are going to have to make JServ operable at some point if they want to replace Perl. Seriously, could they make their configuration process more opaque? I went to the

RE: Embperl

1999-11-03 Thread Gerald Richter
> > I use HTML-Embperl-1.2b10: > > > How make $http_headers_out{'Location'} ,so as > > redirect > I would try $url = "http://$ENV{SERVER_NAME}/path/to/edit.html?" ; while (($k, $v) = each (%fdat)) { $url .= "$k=$v&" ; } $http_headers_out{'location'} = $url ; Gerald

Re: mod_perl programming logic error

1999-11-03 Thread Vivek Khera
> "MD" == Michael Douglass <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: MD> Notice that if len < HUGE_STRING_LEN; we REQUEST to write 'len' bytes, MD> but we only write 'sent' bytes. If 0 < sent < len; then we iterate MD> back over this while loop because len > 0 after the len -= sent command. MD> On the nex

RE: Embperl

1999-11-03 Thread Jason Bodnar
That'll work but you'll end up with an extra ampersand on the end. Here map() and join() are your friends: [- $http_headers_out{'Location'} = q(edit.html?) . join('&', map({$_=$fdat{$_}} keys %fdat)) -] On 03-Nov-99 Gerald Richter wrote: >> >> I use HTML-Embperl-1.2b10: >> >> >> How make $http_

Re: Perl Domination in CGI Programming

1999-11-03 Thread Victor Zamouline
> > * Most CGI apps do text processing, where perl excels at > > Well, if the trend continues we ought to learn Java some day :) > Java is magnificent, but VERY BURDENSOME when it comes to doing any kind of text processing or designing tricky structures. There are plenty of packages and tools

Re: Memory problems

1999-11-03 Thread Greg Stark
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: > Thanks Greg > > > I strongly suggest you move the images to a separate hostname > > altogether. The > > proxy is a good idea but there are other useful effects of > > having a separate > > server altogether that I plan to write about in a separate > > message sometim

Problems building

1999-11-03 Thread Greg Stark
I'm trying to update to 1.3.9+1.21 but I'm having various problems: 1) The makefile seems to try to run ../apaci even though perl is two levels deep, so it can't find ../apaci, it would have to be ../../apaci ===> src/modules/perl gcc -I. -I../../include -I../../include/regex -I../../include

Hello

1999-11-03 Thread Javier Viveros
Hi from Paraguay. Did anyone wrote a chat client with mod_perl??? I am on that project now, and it will be helpfull to read another source code. Greetz and sorry for my poor english level.

Re: mod_perl programming logic error

1999-11-03 Thread Doug MacEachern
> Granted we're running an older copy of mod_perl; but when we noticed > that we were getting hammered by the spam of "rwrite returned -1" > in our log files, I took a look at the source code. I then compared > it to the current source code; I believe I have found a programming > logic error that

RE: Hello

1999-11-03 Thread Eric Cholet
Javier Viveros: > Hi from Paraguay. Did anyone wrote a chat client with mod_perl??? I am on > that project now, and it will be helpfull to read another source code. > Greetz and sorry for my poor english level. I have written a chat server and client that works with modperl.I plan to release it b

Re: mod_perl programming logic error

1999-11-03 Thread Doug MacEachern
> thanks Michael! I've committed your change to the cvs tree. actually, Eric Cholet did, mine failed, cvs rocks. need more coffee. cvs server: Up-to-date check failed for `Changes' cvs server: Up-to-date check failed for `src/modules/perl/Apache.xs' cvs [server aborted]: correct above errors f

RE: Embperl

1999-11-03 Thread Gerald Richter
> > That'll work but you'll end up with an extra ampersand on the > end. Here map() > and join() are your friends: > > [- $http_headers_out{'Location'} = q(edit.html?) . join('&', > map({$_=$fdat{$_}} > keys %fdat)) -] > Yes, that's more elegant, but is it possible that you forgot a qq before {$_=

RE: Embperl

1999-11-03 Thread Jason Bodnar
On 03-Nov-99 Gerald Richter wrote: >> >> That'll work but you'll end up with an extra ampersand on the >> end. Here map() >> and join() are your friends: >> >> [- $http_headers_out{'Location'} = q(edit.html?) . join('&', >> map({$_=$fdat{$_}} >> keys %fdat)) -] >> > Yes, that's more elegant, but

DBI and pooling

1999-11-03 Thread John S. Evans
So I'm starting development on a project with multiple components which will be talking to an Oracle 8 database, and I'm trying to understand what the various options are. The project will consist of HTML::Embperl pages, modperl CGIs, and random Perl processes, all of which will connect to the da

make test fails (modules/src.t) with Error 29

1999-11-03 Thread G.W. Haywood
Hi all, This is the first time I've tried build mod_perl, although I've compiled Apache several times with no trouble. First of all I just want to use it to speed up my CGI scripts, then to add footers and stuff like that. Maybe I'll get into the fancier things later. I'm using Apache 1.3.9 (f

Re: DBI and pooling

1999-11-03 Thread Perrin Harkins
On Tue, 2 Nov 1999, John S. Evans wrote: > So I'm starting development on a project with multiple components which will > be talking to an Oracle 8 database, and I'm trying to understand what the > various options are. Pretty much everyone uses Apache::DBI. With Oracle, you can even get real con

Re: Apache::DBI crashes apache-mod_ssl-1.3.9.2.4.6

1999-11-03 Thread Nick Urbanik
Dear Edmund, thank you for taking the time to reply. Edmund Mergl wrote: > in case you are using the stock rpm's fo apache and mod_perl, the solution is > rather simple: > > compile apache with mod_perl from the sources and install just the binary > httpd (you can rename it as httpd_modperl). >

mod_perl on Apache 2.0

1999-11-03 Thread Jeffrey Baker
There was a short discussion a while ago about getting mod_perl working with Apache 2.0. Since Apache 2.0 can actually be built and run on a few platforms now, I think it is worth taking a lot at this for real. As far as I can tell, these are the broad things that need to be done: *Make all mod

RE: DBI and pooling

1999-11-03 Thread Gerald Richter
> So I'm starting development on a project with multiple components > which will > be talking to an Oracle 8 database, and I'm trying to understand what the > various options are. > > The project will consist of HTML::Embperl pages, modperl CGIs, and random > Perl processes, all of which will conn

RE: mod_perl on Apache 2.0

1999-11-03 Thread Gerald Richter
> I'm assuming that Perl itself is reentrant, since it has been embedded > in multithreaded environments before (IIS). Hopefully someone can > comment on that. > Perl 5.005 has experimetal thread support, Perl 5.006 might be stable enought to really use it. What ActiveState has done for IIS, is

hostname fails under Apache::Registry, but not as CGI??

1999-11-03 Thread Nick Urbanik
Dear folks, When I run a CGI program as such, hostname works. When I run it under Aapche::Registry, it fails. Can anyone understand why? Sorry, I am new to all this. [error] Cannot get host name of local machine at /home/httpd/dbi/frame_control.cgi line 13 use Sys::Hostname; my $hostname

Re: Checking for valid dates

1999-11-03 Thread Michael J. Miller
True. For general or public use, this would be a big issue. However, we use this for an intranet/extranet application, and strictly control who (and what and where also) can access the http servers. Eventually the whole mess gets put into Oracle on the back end via a package procedure (in a date

Embperl: Session handling

1999-11-03 Thread Simon Lindgren
Hello, I use the standard Embperl mechanism for session handling (with DBI), latest version of Embperl and Apache::Session. The Apache::Session docs mention tied(%session)->delete; as a way to permanently delete a session from storage. tied(%udat)->delete; "empties" the session data, but the se

Memory Leaks in mod_perl

1999-11-03 Thread David Huggins-Daines
Hi, I have more or less the same problem as Ben here. mod_perl appears to leak memory on SIGHUP proportionately to the number of extra Perl modules loaded into the interpreter (though without any PerlRequire directives or PerlHandlers or sections it still leaks about 64k of memory on each SIGHU

RE: mod_perl on Apache 2.0

1999-11-03 Thread C. Jon Larsen
One of the main reasons I use mod_perl is because of the pre-fork caching I can do in the parent that the children can share cheaply. I take huge data structures and assemble them in ram as read-only databases (read hash tables) that are much faster and simpler to access than sql (I use sql only

Re: mod_perl on Apache 2.0

1999-11-03 Thread Jeffrey W. Baker
"C. Jon Larsen" wrote: > > One of the main reasons I use mod_perl is because of the pre-fork caching > I can do in the parent that the children can share cheaply. I take huge > data structures and assemble them in ram as read-only databases (read > hash tables) that are much faster and simpler to

ANNOUNCE: HTML-Embperl 1.2b11 (pre 1.2)

1999-11-03 Thread Gerald Richter
The URL ftp://ftp.dev.ecos.de/pub/perl/embperl/HTML-Embperl-1.2b11.tar.gz has entered CPAN as file: $CPAN/authors/id/GRICHTER/HTML-Embperl-1.2b11.tar.gz size: 255406 bytes md5: ada4317a5ebcb2c8b3aa90ff446739b9 Embperl is a module for embedding Perl code in HTML pages. See http://per

Re: hostname fails under Apache::Registry, but not as CGI??

1999-11-03 Thread Stas Bekman
> When I run a CGI program as such, hostname works. When I run it under > Aapche::Registry, it fails. Can anyone understand why? Sorry, I am > new to all this. > > [error] Cannot get host name of local machine at > /home/httpd/dbi/frame_control.cgi line 13 > > use Sys::Hostname; > > my $ho

Apache::DBI crashes apache-mod_ssl-1.3.9.2.4.6

1999-11-03 Thread Nick Urbanik
Dear folks, I am installing and setting up a RH 6.1 system with (quoting /var/log/httpd/error_log): Apache/1.3.9 (Unix) mod_ssl/2.4.6 OpenSSL/0.9.4 mod_perl/1.21 configured When I put use Apache::DBI (); into my startup.pl, or PerlModule Apache::DBI into my perl.conf, then httpd stops with a sem

Re: Failing to reconnect after Oracle "shutdown abort" (Apache::DBI)

1999-11-03 Thread Greg Stark
Jeffrey Baker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > That's what the driver handle's ping method is for. > > if (!$dbh->ping) { &reconnect; } I suppose I could do a ping before every page, but really that's only a kludgy work-around. Really I would want to do this before every single query, and the rig