Re: Problems with proxying POST?

2000-10-04 Thread Alexander Farber (EED)
Chris Lewis wrote: [Given that Stronghold is a bit old, I'm endeavering to build Apache/mod_ssl/mod_perl from scratch, but it complains about not being able to load Apache.pm... Is there a step-by-step set of Solaris instructions somewhere?] Maybe following helps:

Re: Help...

2000-10-04 Thread Nouguier
Christophe wrote: I am pretty new with mod_perl and I have the following runtime error : Database handle destroyed without explicit disconnect at /usr/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.005/i386-linux/Apache/Registry.pm line 144. [Tue Oct 3 22:33:58 2000] [error] Can't call method "errstr" on

Re: [DIGEST] mod_perl digest 9/24/2000

2000-10-04 Thread Roger Espel Llima
-- mod_perl digest September 24, 2000 - September 30, 2000 -- Welcome to the first digest of the

Re: Way it is so copmplicated

2000-10-04 Thread ricarDo oliveiRa
I think someone should tell Mr. "-" (aka 051581324) not to go offtopic. Or at least say something intelligent, if you must go offtopic. --Original Message-- From: Matt Sergeant [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: - [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: October 2, 2000 7:43:23 AM GMT Subject: Re: Way it is so

Re: Way it is so copmplicated

2000-10-04 Thread Gunther Birznieks
The difficulties in using mod_perl are not an offtopic though. But I agree about the intelligent part. There are certainly clearer ways of wording ones frustrations. At 05:24 AM 10/4/00 -0400, ricarDo oliveiRa wrote: I think someone should tell Mr. "-" (aka 051581324) not to go offtopic. Or

[JOB] Short-term/repeat development opportunities

2000-10-04 Thread Simon_Wilcox
I'm looking for individuals/companies to undertake short duration tightly scoped development projects in mod_perl, apache, MySQL LDAP. Williams Lea Group is building it's intranet using these technologies and we need a variety of small applications to support various business

Re: Help with Apache::Status

2000-10-04 Thread Stas Bekman
On Tue, 3 Oct 2000, James Xie wrote: I try to use Apache::Status to find out memory usage of my perl scripts, I configured the system according to the mod_perl guide: Add the following lines to httpd.conf Location /perl-status SetHandler perl-script PerlHandler

RE: [DIGEST] mod_perl digest 9/24/2000

2000-10-04 Thread Geoffrey Young
-Original Message- From: Roger Espel Llima [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Wednesday, October 04, 2000 5:09 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: Geoffrey Young Subject: Re: [DIGEST] mod_perl digest 9/24/2000 [snip] Great! I think this is the best thing that could be done at

Re: Pointer to a CGI.pm list

2000-10-04 Thread Keith G. Murphy
"Roderick A. Anderson" wrote: Sorry but I've run out of sources. (Don't have netnews.) Is there a mailing list for CGI.pm? I've done all I can by reading the 'the book' and searching the net. Can't find anything like the symtoms I'm seeing. Actually the problem may be a lack of perl

Solved, partially - Pointer to a CGI.pm list

2000-10-04 Thread Roderick A. Anderson
I found _my_ error that caused me to send the original message. It was a perl thingy. Now I've got to get with the Camel book to find out if I can and how to do what I really wanted to do. Fyi, I was trying to pass the keys of a hash to the -values in a popup_menu (CGI.pm). Followed by the

Apache::Session - kludgy workaround?

2000-10-04 Thread Ian Mahuron
If I repeatedly write to: $session{foo}{bar} I find that I have to do something like: $session{smack}++; to get it to write when the hash is untied. Is there a better way to do this? TIA ian

RE: Apache::Session - kludgy workaround?

2000-10-04 Thread Jerrad Pierce
Reading the directions ;-) Apache::Session doesn't do any deep checking, if a top level doesn't value doesn't change it may not detect the change. This is why your workaround works... The offically recommend workaround (I believe) is to keep a timestamp as a top level value in the hash...

Re: Pointer to a CGI.pm list

2000-10-04 Thread Peter J. Schoenster
On 3 Oct 2000, at 14:17, Roderick A. Anderson wrote: Sorry but I've run out of sources. (Don't have netnews.) Is there a mailing list for CGI.pm? I've done all I can by reading the 'the book' and searching the net. Can't find anything like the symtoms I'm seeing. Actually the

RE: Help with Apache::Status

2000-10-04 Thread James Xie
It seems I forgot to pre-load the Apache::Status module, it works now once I add the following line in configuration file: PerlModule Apache::Status; I also pre-loaded B::Terse in the startup.pl. Thanks James -Original Message- From: Stas Bekman [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]

Re: Loading modules in Parent??

2000-10-04 Thread Bill Moseley
At 12:04 AM 10/02/00 -0600, Scott Wilson wrote: I've seen a similar result on an IRIX installation I'm working on. Anyone have any ideas? So did you decide NOT to pre-load modules? Scott Bill Moseley wrote: Won't someone comment on this post? That's a chunk of memory! At 11:46 AM

Forking in mod_perl?

2000-10-04 Thread David E. Wheeler
Hi All, Quick question - can I fork off a process in mod_perl? I've got a piece of code that needs to do a lot of processing that's unrelated to what shows up in the browser. So I'd like to be able to fork the processing off and return data to the browser, letting the forked process handle the

RE: Forking in mod_perl?

2000-10-04 Thread Geoffrey Young
-Original Message- From: David E. Wheeler [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Wednesday, October 04, 2000 3:44 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Forking in mod_perl? Hi All, Quick question - can I fork off a process in mod_perl? I've got a piece of code that needs to do a

Re: Forking in mod_perl?

2000-10-04 Thread ed phillips
Hi David, Check out the guide at http://perl.apache.org/guide/performance.html#Forking_and_Executing_Subprocess The Eagle book also covers the C API subprocess details on page 622-631. Let us know if the guide is unclear to you, so we can improve it. Ed "David E. Wheeler" wrote: Hi All,

More mod-perl as DSO on Solaris (Please help)

2000-10-04 Thread Patrick Durusau
Hello, I am trying to install Apache 1.3.12 with mod_perl 1.24 on Solaris 2.8. In my most recent attempt, relying on several suggestions from the archive I have: (Using gcc 2.92.2 for all compiling.) Recompiled Perl 5.6.0 sh Configure -Dcc=gcc -Uuselargefiles Recompiled Apache 1.3.12

A really really weird use for subrequests...

2000-10-04 Thread Luis 'Champs' de Carvalho
Hy, list people. I'm need build a rewriting proxy module for my apache. The basic idea is get a request, turn it on a proxy request as described in the eagle book @ page 371, rewrite the $request-contents so the client will come back to me when processing the

RE: Forking in mod_perl?

2000-10-04 Thread Jay Jacobs
I was just going to post that url to the guide also... But another option I've come up with not listed in the guide is to use the *nix "at" command. If I need to run some processor intensive application that doesn't need apache_anything, I'll do a system call to "at" to schedule it to run

Re: Forking in mod_perl?

2000-10-04 Thread David E. Wheeler
ed phillips wrote: Hi David, Check out the guide at http://perl.apache.org/guide/performance.html#Forking_and_Executing_Subprocess The Eagle book also covers the C API subprocess details on page 622-631. Let us know if the guide is unclear to you, so we can improve it. Yeah, it's

Re: A really really weird use for subrequests...

2000-10-04 Thread Jim Winstead
On Oct 04, Luis 'Champs' de Carvalho wrote: Can i make the mod_proxy redirect using a sub-request, and still have the contents (and headers, and everything else) to let apache handle the response phase ? no. If not, how can i do this weird thing? take a look at

Re: Forking in mod_perl?

2000-10-04 Thread ed phillips
I hope it is clear that you don't want fork the whole server! Mod_cgi goes to great pains to effectively fork a subprocess, and was the major impetus I believe for the development of the C subprocess API. It (the source code for mod_cgi) is a great place to learn some of the subtleties as the

Re: Forking in mod_perl?

2000-10-04 Thread Billy Donahue
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Wed, 4 Oct 2000, ed phillips wrote: Now you are faced with a trade off. Is it more expensive to detach a subprocess, or use the child cleanup phase to do some extra processing? I'd have to know more specifics to answer that with any modicum

Re: Forking in mod_perl?

2000-10-04 Thread David E. Wheeler
ed phillips wrote: I hope it is clear that you don't want fork the whole server! Mod_cgi goes to great pains to effectively fork a subprocess, and was the major impetus I believe for the development of the C subprocess API. It (the source code for mod_cgi) is a great place to learn some

Re: Forking in mod_perl?

2000-10-04 Thread David E. Wheeler
Billy Donahue wrote: Now you are faced with a trade off. Is it more expensive to detach a subprocess, or use the child cleanup phase to do some extra processing? I'd have to know more specifics to answer that with any modicum of confidence. He might try a daemon coprocesses using

Re: Forking in mod_perl?

2000-10-04 Thread Neil Conway
On Wed, Oct 04, 2000 at 02:42:50PM -0700, David E. Wheeler wrote: Yeah, I was thinking something along these lines. Don't know if I need something as complex as IPC. I was thinking of perhaps a second Apache server set up just to handle long-term processing. Then the first server could send a

redirecting large POSTs

2000-10-04 Thread chris
I have an authentication scheme which checks every request for a valid cookie, and if your session has timed out redirects to a login page. After logging in, the request is resubmitted as a GET. This works great except when the original post is large--the redirect URL gets way too long (10K or

Disable/Enable Persistant Connections On Demand

2000-10-04 Thread Mark Kirkwood
Dear List, This may be a stupid question... but anyway... I am using mod_perl with persisent database connections enabled via Apache::DBI. This works great, because most of the web site uses a "generic" user to connect to the database. However I do authentication via the database ( i.e :

Re: Forking in mod_perl?

2000-10-04 Thread C. Jon Larsen
I use a database table for the queue. No file locking issues, atomic transactions, you can sort and order the jobs, etc . . . you can wrap the entire "queue" library in a module. Plus, the background script that processes the queue can easily run with higher permissions, and you don't have to

RE: Apache::Session - kludgy workaround?

2000-10-04 Thread Jeffrey W. Baker
On Wed, 4 Oct 2000, Jerrad Pierce wrote: Reading the directions ;-) Apache::Session doesn't do any deep checking, if a top level doesn't value doesn't change it may not detect the change. This is why your workaround works... The offically recommend workaround (I believe) is to keep a

Re: Forking in mod_perl?

2000-10-04 Thread Jim Woodgate
David E. Wheeler writes: Using the cleanup phase, as Geoffey Young suggests, might be a bit nicer, but I'll have to look into how much time my processing will likely take, hogging up an apache fork while it finishes. I've wondered about this as well. I really like the cleanup handler,