Re: THREE STRIKES...

2000-04-06 Thread Gunther Birznieks
Yeah, but this is the same with any X strikes solution on any other platform. It's a tradeoff. One would assume that if a DoS were being played, that other information would be gathered about the person doing a DoS. According to that theory, one would also assume securID cards are not safe from D

Re: THREE STRIKES...

2000-04-06 Thread Mark Imbriaco
On Thu, 6 Apr 2000, Gunther Birznieks wrote: > Vivek, > > Is it possible that a special auth handler could be written that stores the number > of bad authorizations for a userid and the last time of the hit in a DBM file for > quick lookup? Then, configure an environment or server variable if th

Re: [slightly OT] Problem with cookies

2000-04-06 Thread Drew Taylor
Rusty and Kee, The dual VirtualHost configuration is exactly the solution I will take! It will also apply it to the main domain as well - thinkstock.com, .org, and .net. That will solve my problem, as well as any future ones, and I can just be done with this stupid cookie problem! You just made m

memory leak during server graceful restarts

2000-04-06 Thread Nikki Chumakov
mod_perl probaly have memory leakage during rereading configs (e.g. on the apachectl graceful) My system: RH 6.1, linux-2.2.15pre17 glibc-2.1 apache-1.3.12 mod_ssl-2.6.2 russian patches (ftp.lexa.ru/pub/apache-rus/) PL29.4 mm-1.0.12 mod_perl-1.22 With mod_perl module enabled in httpd.conf ever

Re: NT/IIS/PerlEx vs ASP : stupid benckmark

2000-04-06 Thread Gunther Birznieks
It may be a "stupid" benchmark. But no one seems to have commented on the CPU rates. Why was PerlEx 100% and PerlScript 45% on the same machine, same ActiveState Perl (presumable), same CPU config. And yet took the same amount of time to complete. I find that interesting. I suspect that it is a t

Re: THREE STRIKES...

2000-04-06 Thread Gunther Birznieks
Vivek, Is it possible that a special auth handler could be written that stores the number of bad authorizations for a userid and the last time of the hit in a DBM file for quick lookup? Then, configure an environment or server variable if the auth screwed up more than 3 times within the last hour

Re: [OOT] ANNOUNCE: IPO::Shareable

2000-04-06 Thread Kip Hampton
okay, i'll bite. . . ### package IPO::Shareable use IPO::BuzzWords qw(:xml :b2b :asp :wha); use Angel::Investor use Location::PaloAlto qw(:noMatterWhatItCosts) sub hype { my ($self, $company) = @_; my $product; die "penniless" unless $self->{sold}; if ($company-

Re: Another Error in Apache::ASP and Perl 5.6.0

2000-04-06 Thread Yu Di
Hi, I have isolated the problem, but it just made me more puzzled. The problem is not in that file itself, but in "homepage.htm" which is also an ASP file, in which I tried to open a MySQL connection. When I call DBI->connect("DBI:mysql:database=...;host=...","myusername","mypasswd"), it will gene

mod_perl, Apache and zones?

2000-04-06 Thread John Darrow
I've run into a configuration problem and was wondering if anyone had any advice. I need to be able to run the same sets of pages in several different environments (basically just different environment variables). The problem is that once a process is initiated in a certain environment it can't

Re: [slightly OT] Problem with cookies

2000-04-06 Thread Christopher Taranto
>Why would you have form variables on the first time they hit the >site? (And they'd have to be POST variables for it to matter, right?) Because not all people come in the front door - such as banner ads that implement a search, etc... Not only that, but you would want to identify where they

Re: [slightly OT] Problem with cookies

2000-04-06 Thread Kee Hinckley
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 At 4:09 PM -0700 4/6/00, Christopher Taranto wrote: >Hi Drew, > >My site has several domains that lead into it and I had the same problem >with cookies that I fixed this way. > >Here's how I ended up doing the redirections using mod_rewrite and a perl

Re: [slightly OT] Problem with cookies

2000-04-06 Thread Rusty Foster
> At 05:29 PM 04/06/00 -0400, you wrote: > >Kee, > > > >I'm about to that point. What is the easiest way to do this? I have one > >IP for the domain. Should I have my scripts check SERVER_NAME & do a > >redirect? BTW, I have complete control over the box so I can do what I > >want. :-) > > I thin

Re: [slightly OT] Problem with cookies

2000-04-06 Thread Christopher Taranto
Hi Drew, My site has several domains that lead into it and I had the same problem with cookies that I fixed this way. Here's how I ended up doing the redirections using mod_rewrite and a perl script (which needed to be portable in my case). This could have probably been done simpler and more ef

Re: [slightly OT] Problem with cookies

2000-04-06 Thread Ian Struble
On Thu, 6 Apr 2000, Perrin Harkins wrote: > On Thu, 6 Apr 2000, Drew Taylor wrote: > > I have a site which uses cookies for user tracking. If you go to > > http://cloudstock.com/, the server is sending the cookie but the browser > > is not accepting it ("warn before accepting cookie" is on). If I

Re: [OT][General Programming] Key Generator sub

2000-04-06 Thread Christopher Taranto
Hi Jeff, Well, this is my personal hack to generate an id based on some code by Randal Schwartz. sub generate_id { my $id_letter_count= 4; my $id_digit_count = 4; #my $timeout = 100; # excluded ASCII characters [91-96] my @lett

Re: [slightly OT] Problem with cookies

2000-04-06 Thread Drew Taylor
Kee, I'm about to that point. What is the easiest way to do this? I have one IP for the domain. Should I have my scripts check SERVER_NAME & do a redirect? BTW, I have complete control over the box so I can do what I want. :-) Kee Hinckley wrote: > As a complete aside to your aside, I recommend

[OT/funny] Re: ANNOUNCE: IPO::Shareable [Re: may be an off topic question..]

2000-04-06 Thread Stas Bekman
On Thu, 6 Apr 2000, Perrin Harkins wrote: > On Thu, 6 Apr 2000, Niral Trivedi wrote: > > This book has a topic in it in which it has given an example using a > > module called 'IPO::Shareable' which is available from CPAN site.. > > =head1 NAME > > IPO::Shareable - Perl extension to get rich qu

Re: [slightly OT] Problem with cookies

2000-04-06 Thread Kee Hinckley
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 As a complete aside to your aside, I recommend against having two domains point to the same site. Make the non-www one redirect to the correct one. Otherwise you are going to get indexed twice by the search engines (and twice as often) which make

[OOT] Re: ANNOUNCE: IPO::Shareable [Re: may be an off topic question..]

2000-04-06 Thread Tobias Hoellrich
You failed to mention that this module requires: IPO::BuzzWords qw(:xml :b2b :asp :wha) Angel::Investor and Location::PaloAlto qw(:noMatterWhatItCosts) Thanks Perrin Tobias At 03:15 PM 4/6/00 -0700, Perrin Harkins wrote: >=head1 NAME > >IPO::Shareable - Perl extens

ANNOUNCE: IPO::Shareable [Re: may be an off topic question..]

2000-04-06 Thread Perrin Harkins
On Thu, 6 Apr 2000, Niral Trivedi wrote: > This book has a topic in it in which it has given an example using a > module called 'IPO::Shareable' which is available from CPAN site.. =head1 NAME IPO::Shareable - Perl extension to get rich quick =head1 SYNOPSIS use IPO::Shareable qw(:NYSE);

Re: [slightly OT] Problem with cookies

2000-04-06 Thread ___cliff rayman___
I tested this from my end also. I see the cookies being properly set when I do: lwp-request -e 'http://cloudstock.com' I get a cookie warning from Netscape when i get them via 'http://www.cloudstock.com'. no cookie warning from netscape and no cookies in cookie.txt when i access via 'http://clo

Re: [OT][General Programming] Key Generator sub

2000-04-06 Thread Marshall Dudley
The easiest way to do a crypt with plain vanilla 4 funtion math is to turn the string into a number, then divide the number by a large prime number. Then take the decimal part of the answer, and truncate to the desired length. Marshall "Martin A. Langhoff" wrote: > hi list! > > I'm guilty o

Re: THREE STRIKES...

2000-04-06 Thread Vivek Khera
> "GJ" == Gram, Jim <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: GJ> This is more an Apache question, but here goes. Is there any way to GJ> modify the "Authorization Required" page received after three failed GJ> attempts to login in using Basic Authentication (or insert a custom page) ? GJ> Also, can

Re: [slightly OT] Problem with cookies

2000-04-06 Thread Drew Taylor
Drew Taylor wrote: > > Perrin Harkins wrote: > > > > Does your Set-Cookie header include a path setting? Some browsers require > > that. > Yes, it sets the path to '/'. I'm sitting here scratching my head. I'm > doing everything I know to do and it's not working... :-( > > Here's the relevant c

may be an off topic question..

2000-04-06 Thread Niral Trivedi
All, I am not sure whether this is the right group to post this question.. I have found this thing in book "Writing Apache Modules with PERL and C" from O'Reilly.. This book has a topic in it in which it has given an example using a module called 'IPO::Shareable' which is available from CPAN sit

Re: confusion between scripts

2000-04-06 Thread Stas Bekman
> Stas Bekman wrote: > > > mod_perl guide is your friend: > > http://perl.apache.org/guide/rel/config.html#A_Script_From_One_Virtual_Host_C Oops, sorry. I've used the URL one from my local machine. This is the right one: http://perl.apache.org/guide/config.html#A_Script_From_One_Virtual_Host_C

Re: [slightly OT] Problem with cookies

2000-04-06 Thread Drew Taylor
Perrin Harkins wrote: > > Does your Set-Cookie header include a path setting? Some browsers require > that. Yes, it sets the path to '/'. I'm sitting here scratching my head. I'm doing everything I know to do and it's not working... :-( Here's the relevant code: ($domain is 'cloudstock') my $co

Re: confusion between scripts

2000-04-06 Thread Marshall Dudley
Stas Bekman wrote: > mod_perl guide is your friend: > http://perl.apache.org/guide/rel/config.html#A_Script_From_One_Virtual_Host_C Apparently not. -- Not Found The requested URL /guide/rel/config.html was not found on this server. Apache/1.3.9 Server at perl.apache.org

Re: [OT][General Programming] Key Generator sub

2000-04-06 Thread Jeff . Bulley
Well as another self-made programmer the idea occurs to me to grab the modules Crypt::DES or Crypt::IDEA from CPAN might provide either a fix, or at least insite into possible resolutions. Jeff CN=Jeff [EMAIL PROTECTED]> on 04/06/2000 03:02:38 PM Sent by: "Martin A. Langhoff" <[EMAIL PRO

Re: confusion between scripts

2000-04-06 Thread Stas Bekman
On Thu, 6 Apr 2000, Marshall Dudley wrote: > We have had banners servers running on 2 different boxes for years under > mod_perl without any problems. Recently we moved two banner servers > onto the same box, each under a different virtual domain. > > Now I cannot get them to run reliably. It

Re: [slightly OT] Problem with cookies

2000-04-06 Thread Perrin Harkins
On Thu, 6 Apr 2000, Drew Taylor wrote: > I have a site which uses cookies for user tracking. If you go to > http://cloudstock.com/, the server is sending the cookie but the browser > is not accepting it ("warn before accepting cookie" is on). If I go to > http://www.cloudstock.com/ the cookie is s

THREE STRIKES...

2000-04-06 Thread Gram, Jim
Dear Mod_perlers, This is more an Apache question, but here goes. Is there any way to modify the "Authorization Required" page received after three failed attempts to login in using Basic Authentication (or insert a custom page) ? Also, can the number of attempts before failure be modified?

Re: [slightly OT] Problem with cookies

2000-04-06 Thread Drew Taylor
Cliff, I thought about that, but according to the CGI.pm docs (and the netscape cookie specs too), you have to have at least two(2) dots so that you can't match things like .edu or .com. The .domain.com is supposed to match all hosts containing domain.com. Argh! Thanks for the thought, I'll look

Re: [slightly OT] Problem with cookies

2000-04-06 Thread ___cliff rayman___
  The domain in the Set-Cookie header is '.cloudstock.com'. According to every spec I've read, this should work properly. I telnetted to   just a guess here but, 'cloudstock.com' does not match '.cloudstock.com' when you set the domain as '.cloudstock.com' you are saying that the domain should e

[OT][General Programming] Key Generator sub

2000-04-06 Thread Martin A. Langhoff
hi list! I'm guilty of being a self taught programmer, and so, from time to time, I find myself asking silly questions. Hope you don't mind too much. [if you do, flame me privately, please ... lets keep my shame between the two of us] ok, what I'm looking for is a poor man's crypt()

[slightly OT] Problem with cookies

2000-04-06 Thread Drew Taylor
Hi all, This post is a little off topic, but since I'm using mod_perl... here goes. :-) I have a site which uses cookies for user tracking. If you go to http://cloudstock.com/, the server is sending the cookie but the browser is not accepting it ("warn before accepting cookie" is on). If I go to

Re: NT/IIS/PerlEx vs ASP : (my) stupid benckmark

2000-04-06 Thread Valter Mazzola
>From: Nicolas MONNET <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >To: Valter Mazzola <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >CC: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >Subject: Re: NT/IIS/PerlEx vs ASP : stupid benckmark >Date: Thu, 6 Apr 2000 20:35:00 +0200 (CEST) > >On Thu, 6 Apr 2000, Valter Mazzola wrote: >|i've made a stupid unscientific benckmark: >|

[OT] getting an identifier from a ref

2000-04-06 Thread Chris Warren
I was writing a debugging routine and came across an issue I have not been able to resolve. Basically, I have a reference and I would like to get the identifier of the variable to which it refers. For example: my $foo = 5; debugDisplay(\$foo); sub debugDisplay { my ($var_ref) = @_;

Apache::Registry error message?

2000-04-06 Thread jter
Does anybody know how to track down what is causing this error. It seems that Apache::Registry is trying to undefine some handler, but I don't know what handler or where. Any ideas? [Thu Apr 6 11:06:26 2000] [error] Can't undef active subroutine at /usr/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.005/i386-linux/

apache/news/sendmail/unixadmin mailing list.

2000-04-06 Thread Wu, Gordon
does anybody know where is the mailling list for any of followings? apache inn news server sendmail Unix Admin thanks, Gordon Wu

RE: confusion between scripts

2000-04-06 Thread Wu, Gordon
It should be easy enough --: tow different virtual domain in one Unix box should have no problem at all (even over hundereds). Solution: for each v-host, use seperate cgi-bin dir this is setup inside your apache web server: httpd.conf file, in the V-host block. Gordon Wu > -Origina

confusion between scripts

2000-04-06 Thread Marshall Dudley
We have had banners servers running on 2 different boxes for years under mod_perl without any problems. Recently we moved two banner servers onto the same box, each under a different virtual domain. Now I cannot get them to run reliably. It appears that since the banners in each are run as /cgi

Re: NT/IIS/PerlEx vs ASP : stupid benckmark

2000-04-06 Thread Nicolas MONNET
On Thu, 6 Apr 2000, Valter Mazzola wrote: |i've made a stupid unscientific benckmark: | |the program loops 100 and print a series of "a ", PerlEx takes the same |time as ASP (same NT machine) , BUT processor goes 100% with PerlEx, 45% |with ASP. | |Can someone benchmark mod_perl under Win32,

RE: test

2000-04-06 Thread Wu, Gordon
I got this msg. Gordon Wu > -Original Message- > From: J. Horner [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: Thursday, April 06, 2000 1:27 PM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: test > > > Is the mailing list down? > > 2000/04/06 13:14 (GMT -05:00) > > J. J. Horner > Linux, Apache, Perl, Unix

test

2000-04-06 Thread J. Horner
Is the mailing list down? 2000/04/06 13:14 (GMT -05:00) J. J. Horner Linux, Apache, Perl, Unix, Stronghold [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.knoxlug.org System has been up: 5 days.

Benckmarking

2000-04-06 Thread Valter Mazzola
Why not make a benckmark between ASP, PerlEX, mod_perl under Win32 ? Using the same hardware and same (ported to asp) simple scripts. CAn be useful to have a small script that connects to an access db and performs some simple query. thank you, valter __

NT/IIS/PerlEx vs ASP : stupid benckmark

2000-04-06 Thread Valter Mazzola
>From: Gunther Birznieks <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >CC: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >Subject: Re: mod_perl compat on win32? RE: mod_perl weaknesses? help me >build a case >Date: Thu, 06 Apr 2000 13:40:51 +0800 > > > >Soulhuntre wrote: > > > Hiya :) > > > > > -Original Message

Re: mod_perl shared perl instances?

2000-04-06 Thread Gunther Birznieks
Yeah... http://perl.apache.org/guide/strategy.html#One_Plain_Apache_and_One_mod_per Soulhuntre wrote: > Hiya :) > > OK... mod_perl embeds an instance of Perl inside the Apache system, and with > Apache::ASP allows us to mix perl/html. Good :) > > The problem is that these processes are 'heavy'.

Re: Win32/Linux cross dev... closing in :) Last comments?

2000-04-06 Thread Gunther Birznieks
Soulhuntre wrote: > Hiya :) > > > -Original Message- > > From: Gunther Birznieks [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > > Sent: Thursday, April 06, 2000 6:56 AM > > Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > Subject: Re: Win32/Linux cross dev... closing in :) Last comments? > > > > > > Writing Apache::Registry an

RE: external access to intranet

2000-04-06 Thread Jonas Nordström
I don't understand how to do that. Let's say that I have an Intranet HTML-file at "intranethost1" with three links (anchors): http://intranethost1/index.html> http://intranethost2/index.html> http://www.sunet.se/index.html> These should be sent to the client as https://gatewayserver/virtualhos

RE: Win32/Linux cross dev... closing in :) Last comments?

2000-04-06 Thread Soulhuntre
Hiya :) > -Original Message- > From: Gunther Birznieks [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: Thursday, April 06, 2000 6:56 AM > Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Re: Win32/Linux cross dev... closing in :) Last comments? > > > Writing Apache::Registry and then moving to PerlEx will have greate

mod_perl shared perl instances?

2000-04-06 Thread Soulhuntre
Hiya :) OK... mod_perl embeds an instance of Perl inside the Apache system, and with Apache::ASP allows us to mix perl/html. Good :) The problem is that these processes are 'heavy'. Is there any way to simulate the actions of "Velocigen" in that we could have a few (configurable number) of perl

Re: Win32/Linux cross dev... closing in :) Last comments?

2000-04-06 Thread Gunther Birznieks
Writing Apache::Registry and then moving to PerlEx will have greater performance than writing Apache::ASP and moving to PerlScript Pages on IIS. However, the performance difference is probably not that great compared to using CGI on both platforms. Later, Gunther Soulhuntre wrote: > Hiya :) >

Win32/Linux cross dev... closing in :) Last comments?

2000-04-06 Thread Soulhuntre
Hiya :) Thanks for all the help so far, it has proved VERY valuable. We have narrowed our architecture down a lot over the last few days. We will work with mod_perl/Apache/Apache::ASP under Linux. And we will use Activestate's PerlScript under Win32. We will avoid as many "ASPisms" as we can, a