Doc clarifications requested

2003-03-12 Thread Ron Savage
Folks (1) On this page: http://perl.apache.org/docs/2.0/user/compat/compat.html Under this heading: $r-args in an Array Context I see this item: if one wishes to simply read POST data, there is the more modern {setup,should,get}_client_block API, and even more modern filter API. Along with

Help with proxy and PerlHandler with Apache::Filter

2003-03-12 Thread David Culp
I'm having problems using Proxy after a PerlHandler and Apache::Filter is used. Objective: Proxy / http://foo.com What Happens: proxy:http://foo.com Any suggestion or pointers to relevant docs would be greatly appreciated. Thanks, David

[ANNOUNCE] Uttu 0.05

2003-03-12 Thread James G Smith
The uploaded file Uttu-0.05.tar.gz has entered CPAN as file: $CPAN/authors/id/J/JS/JSMITH/Uttu-0.05.tar.gz size: 54148 bytes md5: 29ac0663f8dce1037e8c52b4c20ea26e For those feeling adventurous Uttu (still in late-alpha/early-beta and needing a lot more documentation) is a web

cookie authenticated caching proxy

2003-03-12 Thread Abdul-wahid Paterson
Hi, I am still pretty new to mod_perl and have only really dabbled with a few small applications that I created. I am now looking to build something quite specific and was wondering if anyones know of anything similar to what I want to do so or whether they have any pointers as to mod_perl's

Re: cookie authenticated caching proxy

2003-03-12 Thread Perrin Harkins
Abdul-wahid Paterson wrote: I wanted to develop a caching proxy that will return a cached page instead of passing control to one of the PHP scripts or Perl scripts that normally generate the pages. This is called a reverse proxy and is very common in mod_perl setups. It is typically done with

ProxyPass/Reverse and access control

2003-03-12 Thread George Valpak
I posted this messages at the Apache users list, but no response. Sorry if it is off topic here, hopefully someone can point me to an answer or example. I am using apache 1.3.27, MP 1.26 on RH 7.3. I would like to map several outside sites into my web space and limit access individually to

Re: Help with proxy and PerlHandler with Apache::Filter

2003-03-12 Thread Perrin Harkins
David Culp wrote: I'm having problems using Proxy after a PerlHandler and Apache::Filter is used. Objective: Proxy/http://foo.com What Happens: proxy:http://foo.com Any suggestion or pointers to relevant docs

Re: cookie authenticated caching proxy

2003-03-12 Thread Abdul-wahid Paterson
One extra requirement is that some of the pages need authentication which is cookie based. I would need to check the cookie against a database to see if the caller is authenticated to access the particular page. Has anyone done/seen anything similar implemented in mod_perl? That's very

Re: cookie authenticated caching proxy

2003-03-12 Thread Perrin Harkins
Abdul-wahid Paterson wrote: In the docs you cited, it says: ProxyPass happens before the authentication phase, so you do not have to worry about authenticating twice. Hmmm, I thought you had an opportunity to do access control first. Look at this, from the mod_proxy docs:

Re: Job tracking and publishing question.

2003-03-12 Thread Perrin Harkins
Thomas Whitney wrote: I was looking at Bricolage, however it appears to be more suited to text content publishing. I currently use Template::Toolkit to print out the bids and I imagine I could do all the programming myself--naturally, it would be helpful to find some package that suited at least

Re: Doc clarifications requested

2003-03-12 Thread Stas Bekman
Ron Savage wrote: Folks (1) On this page: http://perl.apache.org/docs/2.0/user/compat/compat.html Under this heading: $r-args in an Array Context Why not using a direct pointer ;) http://perl.apache.org/docs/2.0/user/compat/compat.html#C__r_E_gt_args__in_an_Array_Context I see this item: if one

Re: Doc clarifications requested

2003-03-12 Thread Stas Bekman
(c) Would it be possible to add a reference for is_initial_req? Let's try to keep this document is simple as possible. Think of it as a temporary helper map to find out what happened to some mp1 method that is not there anymore, or working differently. Remember that eventually, people won't