Re: kylix: rad!

2002-01-14 Thread Christian Couder
Hi all, brian moseley wrote: have you folks seen kylix? http://www.borland.com/kylix/ And have you seen KDevelop ? http://www.kdevelop.org and also http://dot.kde.org/992083107/ http://dot.kde.org/986594487/ So there is already a basic Perl support in KDevelop 3 (codename Gideon)...

Re: kylix: rad!

2002-01-14 Thread brian moseley
On Sun, 13 Jan 2002, Daniel Aldham wrote: Slashdot and Freshmeat ran a story on the weekend about the Borland/Kylix license. Pretty draconian stuff. that's where i heard of it.

Re: RFC: Exception::Handler

2002-01-14 Thread Dominique Quatravaux
One of the things I don't like about traditional try/catch handling is that it doesn't allow for class level programming. You need to allow any subroutine to try/catch exceptions (die). It's also nice to notify any object in the stack that there is an unhandled exception passing through

Ticket systems

2002-01-14 Thread Viljo Marrandi
Hello, I'm on a mission ta make a web-site that uses cookies for user log-in and log-out. First I'd like to know which one you suggest - Ticket system from Eagle book or Apache::AuthTicket. I know that Apache::AuthTicket is based on Eagle book's version, but it seems little more advanced. And

Re: Ticket systems

2002-01-14 Thread Philip M. Gollucci
I am using Apache1.3.22/mod_perl1.26 with mod_usertrack.c from httpd.conf #User Tracking LoadModule usertrack_module libexec/mod_usertrack.so AddModule mod_usertrack.c CookieTracking on SetEnvIf Request_URI (\.gif|\.jpeg|\.js|\.css)$ junk CustomLog /usr/local/sites/dev/logs/clickstream

Re: Ticket systems

2002-01-14 Thread C.Hauser - IT assistance GmbH
Same and more questions ... And now second problem. Has anyone modified one of these modules so, that when user first enters the site he will get a cookie immediately (with random generated ID) and can walk around there. And if he logs in then the cookie gets modified accordingly (saying

Re: formmail spammers

2002-01-14 Thread Geoffrey Young
Right, and point them to NMS for a replacement too. so, we've been having a spam problem lately due to formmail.pl. this thread prompted me to scan all our user directories and note people who had formmail.pl sitting around. I would have liked a link to send them to for the NMS replacement,

Re: formmail spammers

2002-01-14 Thread A.T.Z.
so, we've been having a spam problem lately due to formmail.pl. this thread prompted me to scan all our user directories and note people who had formmail.pl sitting around. We hardcoded the TO address in FormMail.pl and tell all our customers to do the same. Spammers trying to use the script

Re: formmail spammers

2002-01-14 Thread Angel R. Rivera
The latest FormMail.pl has been fixed. They can go to Matt's Archive and get the latest copy. Geoffrey Young writes: Right, and point them to NMS for a replacement too. so, we've been having a spam problem lately due to formmail.pl. this thread prompted me to scan all our user

Re: kylix: rad!

2002-01-14 Thread Perrin Harkins
GUI builders usually don't work for anything but the most trivial websites that could be written in anything and do fine. consider struts, a popular java mvc framework. it defines simple interfaces for things like actions and forms. does struts (and mvc in general) work for non trivial

Re: DECLINED unless 'text/html' but images never make it

2002-01-14 Thread Jon Robison
How about trying: return DECLINED unless $r-is_initial_req; Image calls are not initial requests, they are sub requests. --Jon Robison R.Munden wrote: I've a script (controlled by a Location directive) that wraps a standard header and footer around an HTML page I've this at the top of

Re: RFC: Exception::Handler

2002-01-14 Thread Rob Nagler
I'm afraid I don't get it - isn't it what the finally functionality in Error.pm (CPAN) does ? try { stuffThatMayThrow(); } finally { releaseResources(); }; One reason for exceptions is to separate error handling code from the normal control flow. This makes the normal

Re: RFC: Exception::Handler

2002-01-14 Thread Matt Sergeant
On Mon, 14 Jan 2002, Rob Nagler wrote: I'm afraid I don't get it - isn't it what the finally functionality in Error.pm (CPAN) does ? try { stuffThatMayThrow(); } finally { releaseResources(); }; One reason for exceptions is to separate error handling code from

Re: DECLINED unless 'text/html' but images never make it

2002-01-14 Thread Igor Sysoev
On Mon, 14 Jan 2002, Jon Robison wrote: How about trying: return DECLINED unless $r-is_initial_req; Image calls are not initial requests, they are sub requests. No. Requests for inline images are not subrequests. --Jon Robison R.Munden wrote: I've a script (controlled by a

Request Limiter

2002-01-14 Thread Ken Miller
There was a module floating around a while back that did request limiting (aDOS preventional tool). I've searched the archives (unsuccessfully), and I was wondering if anyone knows what the heck I'm talking about. I thought it was on Matt Sergeant's web site, but for the life of me I can't

Re: Request Limiter

2002-01-14 Thread Geoffrey Young
Ken Miller wrote: There was a module floating around a while back that did request limiting (a DOS preventional tool). I've searched the archives (unsuccessfully), and I was wondering if anyone knows what the heck I'm talking about. maybe you had Stonehenge::Throttle in mind?

problem with dup() in mod-perl?

2002-01-14 Thread Erik Rantapaa
Is anyone aware of a problem with dup-ing a fd to stdin? Attached is a module I'm using to get the output of an exec-ed command. When I call this module from a script it gives the right output. When I call this from a Mason module, I get 0 0 0 (as if no input was read). When I call this from

Re: Request Limiter

2002-01-14 Thread Mark Maunder
Geoffrey Young wrote: Ken Miller wrote: There was a module floating around a while back that did request limiting (a DOS preventional tool). I've searched the archives (unsuccessfully), and I was wondering if anyone knows what the heck I'm talking about. maybe you had

Re: Request Limiter

2002-01-14 Thread Perrin Harkins
It's configurable so after exceeding a threshold the client gets content from the shared memory cache, and if a second threshold is exceeded (ok this guy is getting REALLY irritating) then they get the 'come back later' message. They will only get cached content if they exceed x number of

RE: Request Limiter

2002-01-14 Thread Christian Gilmore
If you're looking for limiting simultaneous requests to a URI resource (and not the entire server, which can be handled by MaxClients), you may be looking for mod_throttle_access. It can be found at http://modules.apache.org/search?id=232. Regards, Christian - Christian Gilmore

Re: my $var at file scope and __DATA__ sections under mod_perl

2002-01-14 Thread Perrin Harkins
Each time, the warn is for 'blah' because the value 'test' is never retained in $var. Is this intended behaviour? No, that should create a closure that keeps the value of $var. Are you sure these requests are all going to the same instance? Weird, it's like the MIME::Types::DATA handle just

[ANNOUNCE] Apache::SSI v2.17 uploaded

2002-01-14 Thread Ken Williams
Hi, The uploaded file Apache-SSI-2.17.tar.gz has entered CPAN as file: $CPAN/authors/id/K/KW/KWILLIAMS/Apache-SSI-2.17.tar.gz size: 25819 bytes md5: b229a3a25a82935cad2da1af637714be Changes since 2.16: 2.17 Mon Jan 14 13:58:21 CST 2002 Added the Apache::FakeSSI class,

Re: Request Limiter

2002-01-14 Thread Mark Maunder
Perrin Harkins wrote: It's configurable so after exceeding a threshold the client gets content from the shared memory cache, and if a second threshold is exceeded (ok this guy is getting REALLY irritating) then they get the 'come back later' message. They will only get cached content

[OT] RE: formmail spammers

2002-01-14 Thread Adam Prime
Last week there was a post to bugtraq about ways to exploit badly written scripts using cdonts.newmail, that exploited the fact that there was a SMTP conversation going on behind the scenes. This type of exploit can probably be used on a ton of other form mail type things, that use SMTP in the