Neo-Classical Transaction Processing (was Re: Excellent article...)

2001-10-28 Thread Rob Nagler
Joe Schaefer writes: experience, the only way to build large scale systems is with stateless, single-threaded servers. ^^ Could you say some more about what you mean by this? Do you mean something like use a functional language (like Haskell or

Re: [OT] ApacheBench says my site is unstable?

2001-10-28 Thread Andrew Ho
Hello, PMI'm using ApacheBench to perform stress testing on my mod_perl server. PMIt's not always working, though. Observe the following two runs: (first PMis Broken pipe; second has some failed requests) Try writing a Perl (or other language) client that hits the URL you test over and over

[OT] pdf creation

2001-10-28 Thread Lon Koenig
I apologize for the OT post, but the members of this list seem to be authoritive resource for all web/perl solutions. I'm currently bidding a project, and the client's all in favor of a mod_perl solution. Phase 2 of the project requires on-the-fly pdf creation. I've done page layout in other

Re: [OT] pdf creation

2001-10-28 Thread Steve Smith
Does anyone have success/horror stories generating pdf files under mod_perl? Recommendations? I recently built a customer billing system system that generated PDF invoices using Latex + Template-Toolkit. See http://template-toolkit.org/docs/blue/Manual/Filters.html This was an backend

modperl as DSO

2001-10-28 Thread Jeroen Geusebroek
Hi, I emailed the list a few days ago with some troubles i had with Apache::AuthenSMB. Turns out It didn't work because I did not have mod_perl correctly installed Now for my question, I recompiled mod_perl in apache (no DSO) and then it worked; problem is I really want it as a DSO and tried

Re: [OT] pdf creation

2001-10-28 Thread Drew Taylor
At 04:01 PM 10/28/2001 -0600, Lon Koenig wrote: I apologize for the OT post, but the members of this list seem to be authoritive resource for all web/perl solutions. I'm currently bidding a project, and the client's all in favor of a mod_perl solution. Phase 2 of the project requires

Re: [OT] pdf creation

2001-10-28 Thread John Armstrong
I once did a project using html2pdf under Unix. It worked great for converting the Human Resources forms ( in html ) to printable PDF's that contained variable user information. Worked well and did not cause any real trouble. John- On Sunday, October 28, 2001, at 04:29 PM, Drew Taylor wrote:

New mod_perl hacker wannabe . . .

2001-10-28 Thread Louis LeBlanc
Hey all. Just looking for a little direction here. I'm just getting started learning perl and mod_perl (might as well jump in with both feet, right?). I am mostly just doing my own thing and trying to solve interesting little problems as they come up. A while back, I modified the

Re: PerlSetVar string value - no \n translation?

2001-10-28 Thread Stas Bekman
Yet another solution would be to use this: PerlSetVar Foo first line PerlAddVar Foo second line PerlAddVar Foo third line Or you can use the hack suggested by Steven. Interesting. It hadn't occurred to me that mod_perl would simply append the values if Foo had several assigned. I'll

Re: New mod_perl hacker wannabe . . .

2001-10-28 Thread John Michael
I'm new to the list and have very little experience writing modules but have one concern because I have written quite a few perl scripts that send email alerts and I also ran a perl script that picked up 404 error through the doc error directive and know what kind of output is possible. Here it

Re: New mod_perl hacker wannabe . . .

2001-10-28 Thread Stas Bekman
Louis LeBlanc wrote: I'm just getting started learning perl and mod_perl (might as well jump in with both feet, right?). I am mostly just doing my own thing and trying to solve interesting little problems as they come up. [snip] Anyway, I'd like to know if it is customary for any

Re: New mod_perl hacker wannabe . . .

2001-10-28 Thread Louis LeBlanc
On 10/28/01 08:27 PM, John Michael sat at the `puter and typed: I'm new to the list and have very little experience writing modules but have one concern because I have written quite a few perl scripts that send email alerts and I also ran a perl script that picked up 404 error through the doc

Re: New mod_perl hacker wannabe . . .

2001-10-28 Thread Louis LeBlanc
On 10/29/01 10:39 AM, Stas Bekman sat at the `puter and typed: [snip] The truth is that it doesn't matter how many modules you have submitted to CPAN. You become a mod_perl hacker by being an *active* contributor. And you can contribute in many direct and subtle ways. Some of the

PerlInitHandler w/o PerlPostReadRequestHandler.

2001-10-28 Thread Steve Piner
I came across an unexpected feature of PerlInitHandler today. In the distant past, for whatever reason, I configured mod_perl to have PerlInitHandler, but not PerlPostReadRequestHandler. Today I tried to hook a handler to PerlPostReadRequestHandler, and got an error on start up, saying that I

RE: New mod_perl hacker wannabe . . .

2001-10-28 Thread Jeremy Rusnak
Just today, I finished a new module - my first from scratch - for handling 404 errors. I know Apache::404 isn't a real imaginative name, but it works. I took a look at this, it's a good idea for smaller sites. I would suggest that you figure out a way to put a rate limit on the number of

[OT] Nimda, etc (was: New mod_perl hacker wannabe . . .)

2001-10-28 Thread David Young
FWIW, Apache::CodeRed seemed like a good idea for a while, and then Nimbda showed up, and it was apparent no one was actually doing anything about the infected machines. I got sick of the notifications and the junk in my error log, so I resorted to this handler: LocationMatch \.(ida|exe)$

Re: [OT] Nimda, etc (was: New mod_perl hacker wannabe . . .)

2001-10-28 Thread Stas Bekman
David Young wrote: FWIW, Apache::CodeRed seemed like a good idea for a while, and then Nimbda showed up, and it was apparent no one was actually doing anything about the infected machines. I got sick of the notifications and the junk in my error log, so I resorted to this handler:

Re: [OT] Nimda, etc (was: New mod_perl hacker wannabe . . .)

2001-10-28 Thread John Michael
LocationMatch \.(ida|exe)$ SetHandler perl-script PerlPostReadRequestHandler Apache::DONE /LocationMatch I tried adding the above code to my perl.conf file. and got this error on restart. Syntax error on line 31 of /etc/httpd/conf/conf/perl.conf: PerlPostReadRequestHandler not allowed here JM

Re: [OT] Nimda, etc (was: New mod_perl hacker wannabe . . .)

2001-10-28 Thread John Michael
I tried PerlPostReadRequestHandler Apache::DONE and apache would not start I changed it to: LocationMatch \.(ida|exe)$ SetHandler perl-script PerlInitHandler Apache::DONE /LocationMatch Apache then started And it looks for the module DONE.pm So I guess you have to write the module for it to

Re: [OT] Nimda, etc (was: New mod_perl hacker wannabe . . .)

2001-10-28 Thread Stas Bekman
John Michael wrote: I tried PerlPostReadRequestHandler Apache::DONE and apache would not start I changed it to: LocationMatch \.(ida|exe)$ SetHandler perl-script PerlInitHandler Apache::DONE /LocationMatch Apache then started And it looks for the module DONE.pm My bad, should

Re: [OT] P2EE Redux was: Excellent article on Apache/mod_perl ateToys

2001-10-28 Thread Medi Montaseri
Similarly, this concept of Enterprise is a bugus idea ... from a pure computer science point of view, there is no such thing as an Enterprise. This is all Microsoft's branding trying to associate themselves with something big, and Sun is stupidly following it My vote is to come up with

Re: [OT] P2EE Redux was: Excellent article on Apache/mod_perl at eToys

2001-10-28 Thread Gunther Birznieks
One important thing THERE IS ALREADY A P5EE MAILING LIST GUYS!! :) So basically if you want to add your feedback, go there! It's already done but it's not too late to add feedback. :) email ... [EMAIL PROTECTED] At 08:36 AM 10/29/2001, Medi Montaseri wrote: Similarly, this concept of

ANNOUNCE: introducing template-docset discussion list

2001-10-28 Thread Stas Bekman
You are probably familiar with the docset concept as its final product, if you saw the mod_perl guide and or the template toolkit documentation. The two try to make a system for converting a potentially huge set of documents in different source formats (POD, XML, HTML...) into nicely linked

cvs commit: modperl-2.0/xs/maps modperl_functions.map

2001-10-28 Thread stas
stas01/10/28 17:19:16 Modified:src/modules/perl modperl_config.c t/response/TestAPI request_rec.pm todo api.txt xs/Apache/RequestUtil Apache__RequestUtil.h xs/maps modperl_functions.map Log: - implement