Re: Breaks in mod_perl, works in Perl

2002-03-06 Thread Jeremy Howard
Mark Hazen wrote: Hmm, then create a ramdisk and read from the file virtually stored in the RAM. Stas, This is an elegant solution that I had not thought of. My problem is that I can't get ramdisks to work on my Red Hat 6.2 with 2.4.9 machine. But that's really my problem, and you've

Re: [OT] email attachments; was modperl growth

2002-02-02 Thread Jeremy Howard
Jonathan M. Hollin wrote: Er, that's not strictly true. Outlook handles encrypted and/or signed email as well as any other client. Outlook displays the signed email with a unique icon to identify it as such. The attachment contains the actual PGP info (in case you want to see it). I think

Re: mod_deflate problem with chunked encoding

2002-01-18 Thread Jeremy Howard
Geoffrey Young wrote: Philip Mak wrote: The following webpage on a mod_deflate enabled server is not working correctly in some browsers: ... a few of us have been wondering where all the traffic on these modules has been coming from, is all - I thought it might genuinely be some

mod_accel/mod_deflate update

2001-12-29 Thread Jeremy Howard
mod_accel and mod_deflate are the modules I discussed a couple of weeks ago to allow you to create an efficient HTTP accelerator front-end to your mod_perl servers. I incorrectly reported 2 days ago that mod_deflate does not work with Mozilla-based browsers. It turns out that the problem is

mod_deflate warning

2001-12-28 Thread Jeremy Howard
I posted a couple of weeks ago about how well the mod_deflate/mod_accel combination works on a front-end HTTP accelerator. I've just discovered a problem that I thought I'd mention here for anyone who's trying this out. It appears that Mozilla-based browsers fail when using gzip encoding with

Re: mod_accel reverse proxying?

2001-12-28 Thread Jeremy Howard
Philip Mak wrote: On Fri, 28 Dec 2001, Igor Sysoev wrote: I think it should have reverse syntax: AccelReverse http://127.0.0.1:8001/ / Or not ? Of course it complicates porting from mod_proxy to mod_accel but I think it's clearer then ProxyPassReverse syntax. I don't think

Re: Report on mod_accel and mod_deflate

2001-12-20 Thread Jeremy Howard
Philip Mak wrote: In ftp://ftp.lexa.ru/pub/apache-rus/contrib/ (where I have been told to download mod_accel/mod_deflate from before), I see another file called mod_realip-1.0.tar.gz just released one week ago. From looking at the keywords in the documentation, it looks like a module to be

Report on mod_accel and mod_deflate

2001-12-19 Thread Jeremy Howard
Igor Sysoev mentioned recently on this list that he has written a module called 'mod_accel' that provides a caching HTTP accelerator, as well as a mod_gzip replacement called 'mod_deflate'. These modules are both used on Kaspersky labs' busy sites, as well as at the popular portal

Re: Comparison of different caching schemes

2001-12-15 Thread Jeremy Howard
Rob Mueller (fastmail) wrote: And ++ on Paul's comments about Devel::DProf and other profilers. Ditto again. I've been using Apache::DProf recently and it's been great at tracking down exactly where time is spent in my program. One place that Rob and I still haven't found a good solution

Re: Comparison of different caching schemes

2001-12-12 Thread Jeremy Howard
Perrin Harkins wrote: Also, I'd like to see MLDBM + BerkeleyDB (not DB_File) with BerkeleyDB doing automatic locking, and IPC::MM, and IPC::Shareable, and IPC::ShareLite (though it doesn't serialize complex data by itself), and MySQL with standard tables. Of course I could just do them

Re: Locating infinite loops

2001-11-20 Thread Jeremy Howard
Matt Sergeant asked: I have an error on my server that I think is caused by an infinite loop in perl code [*]. Does anyone have a reliable way to detect where this is happening on a server with lots of code? $SIG{ALRM} = sub { Carp::confess(Got Apache::Event ALRM); };

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

2001-10-19 Thread Jeremy Howard
By the way, I noticed he documented still another gotcha due to a sneaky closure. Does anyone know off-hand whether the Perl 6 folks plan to change the closure syntax so they don't sneak into your code this way? Closures, references, et al are being thoroughly revised, such that there will

Re: Catching user-presses-stop early

2001-10-17 Thread Jeremy Howard
to be ignored anyway unless you are sending binary data. At 06:35 AM 10/13/2001, Jeremy Howard wrote: Our site is suddenly getting to the point where resource constraints are becoming an issue for the first time. So, apologies in advance if I have lots of optimization-related questions over

Apache 1.3.22 is out

2001-10-14 Thread Jeremy Howard
I just noticed that Apache 1.3.22 is out. Details here: http://www.apacheweek.com/issues/01-10-12 3 security patches included, plus enhancements to ab, mod_auth (now understands FS permissions), and the manual, plus numerous other bits and pieces.

Catching user-presses-stop early

2001-10-12 Thread Jeremy Howard
Our site is suddenly getting to the point where resource constraints are becoming an issue for the first time. So, apologies in advance if I have lots of optimization-related questions over the next couple of weeks... One thing I would like to catch is the related problems of: - Users pressing

Re: Apache::Hello

2001-09-17 Thread Jeremy Howard
Ray and Lara Recendez wrote: I am trying to get Apache::Hello to work. ... #!/usr/local/bin/perl Turn PerlWarn On as described here: http://perl.apache.org/src/mod_perl.html#SWITCHES Also try running Apache in single-user mode: /usr/local/apache/bin/apachectl -X This helps you pick up

Re: keeping perl in memory

2001-09-14 Thread Jeremy Howard
Miroslav Madzarevic wrote: I don't wan't anything related to Apache (no Apache, not even Apache::Registry or anything else, I'm a mod perl, Mason programmer so I'm familiar with them). I just wanted to have perl binary persistent in memory (_like_ in mod_perl) so that perl doesn't have to

Re: Info required

2001-09-07 Thread Jeremy Howard
Medi Montaseri wrote: Having said thatI recommend Writing Apache Modules with Perl and C known as the 'eagle book'. See Chapter 3, 'The Apache Module Architecture and API' and for a quick feeling, see Figure 3-3, page 60, The Request Loop. Of course I'm new to mod_perl, so if Pokymon

Re: AxKit.org/axkit.apache.org timing?

2001-09-01 Thread Jeremy Howard
Ed Loehr wrote: I recently read that AxKit was in the process of becoming an ASF xml project. Does anyone have a sense of the timing for when this might happen and when axkit.org/axkit.apache.org will return/arrive? Also, does anyone know of a mirror site for axkit.org? You can see where

Re: mod_perl memory consumption

2001-08-30 Thread Jeremy Howard
Paul DuBois wrote: mysql_store_result/mysql_use_result determine whether or not the server sends all the rows to the client at once, or one at a time as the client asks for them. mysql_store_result is therefore more memory intensive for the client (which must hold the entire result set).

Re: using mod_perl

2001-08-24 Thread Jeremy Howard
Hi! I am wondering if anyone could tell me how to actually run modperl on my webserver i have perl modules installed to run without modperl and dont know how to invoke the process to get them working can anyone help? jason The best place to learn mod_perl is the Guide:

Re: Subroutine xxxx redefined

2001-08-22 Thread Jeremy Howard
Stas Bekman wrote: Something forces the reload of your files. I'd suggest putting something like: use Carp; cluck(I was loaded); in one of the files run the server in single server mode (httpd -X) and check the trace on the second reload. Nice idea. You might also try 'warn @INC' in one

Re: mod_perl install for win32

2001-08-21 Thread Jeremy Howard
Steven Sajous wrote: From: Jeremy Howard [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Steven Sajous wrote: referring to nmake with VC++ It comes with it? I don't see it Yes it does. Run the batch file Robert mentioned and it'll work from the command line. You can also download it from: ftp

Re: Looking for answers using mod_perl and windows nt.

2001-08-14 Thread Jeremy Howard
Boyd, David wrote: I am using Windows NT, running apache with mod_perl. The problem that I am having is that I am dynamiclly filling in the options of a select box from a database. now when a user selects a value, I expect that value to be on the URL, but it is not. I am currently saving

Re: file upload memory leak

2001-07-26 Thread Jeremy Howard
Jack Cushman wrote: I am having a problem with very large file uploads (eg 100 MB). While the files load, the apache process stays at about 12000 K (the ps VSZ size). When the file finishes uploading, the thread suddenly jumps to over 20. My guess is that something is loading the whole

Re: note on wombat

2001-07-26 Thread Jeremy Howard
brian moseley wrote: for those of you who were at the presentation this morning and wanted more info on wombat - here are the urls: http://libservlet.sourceforge.net http://wombat.sourceforge.net Unfortunately I wasn't at the preso, but I've looked at the slides you've got up on your

Re: [OT] WebMacro (was: RoboWeb 1.0b, web application test suite generator)

2001-07-25 Thread Jeremy Howard
Please be aware that WebMacro is a moderately popular Java templating tool hosted at http://www.webmacro.org Naming it WWW::WebMacro might be a bit confusing. It's your choice. I just wanted to make you aware of the other WebMacro. You're right--I just remembered that... Back to the

[OT] WebMacro (was: RoboWeb 1.0b, web application test suite generator)

2001-07-24 Thread Jeremy Howard
Gunther Birznieks wrote: If you guys end up finally collaborating, one very minor request I would have is that it goes into CPAN as something more standard like WWW:: namespace rather than a marketing name like RoboWeb. The current plan is for the 'scripting language' which provides a simple

mod_dev + mod_perl very nasty conflict

2001-07-07 Thread Jeremy Howard
A number of people have come across a problem where mod_dav shows the contents of the filesystem root: http://dav.lyra.org/pipermail/dav-dev/2001-June/002487.html I have also come across this problem, and narrowed it down (at least for me) to a conflict with mod_perl. I have no other

Re: Fwd: [speedycgi] Speedycgi scales better than mod_perl withscriptsthat contain un-shared memory

2000-12-22 Thread Jeremy Howard
Perrin Harkins wrote: What I was saying is that it doesn't make sense for one to need fewer interpreters than the other to handle the same concurrency. If you have 10 requests at the same time, you need 10 interpreters. There's no way speedycgi can do it with fewer, unless it actually makes

Re: Fwd: [speedycgi] Speedycgi scales better than mod_perl withscriptsthat contain un-shared memory

2000-12-22 Thread Jeremy Howard
Joe Schaefer wrote: "Jeremy Howard" [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I don't know if Speedy fixes this, but one problem with mod_perl v1 is that if, for instance, a large POST request is being uploaded, this takes a whole perl interpreter while the transaction is occurring. This is at

Re: load average: 24.07, 14.76, 9.20

2000-12-17 Thread Jeremy Howard
Perrin Harkins wrote: Buddy Lee Haystack wrote: How much of a performance penalty does using Apache::SizeLimit have? Not enough that you'll notice it. It really depends on 2 things: - What OS you're on - How complex your scripts are. Here's the code that does the size check, which

Re: greetings and questions

2000-12-15 Thread Jeremy Howard
Stas Bekman wrote: Come'n, are you sure you have ever looked at perl.apache.org? http://perl.apache.org/#docs Books and Documentation: Writing Apache Modules with Perl and C book by Lincoln Stein and Doug MacEachern. ==

Re: fork inherits socket connection

2000-12-15 Thread Jeremy Howard
Stas Bekman wrote: But you don't need to call setsid() when you fork. Why looking for complicated workaround when you can do it properly without any workaround. Have you ever seen an example of fork that uses setsid? But your Guide says: A much better approach would be to spawn a

[OT] Re: is morning bug still relevant?

2000-12-14 Thread Jeremy Howard
Stas Bekman wrote: Apologies Tim, somehow I always thought that 'infamous' is better than just 'famous'... I meant the 'famous'... sorry about that. I've corrected it in the guide. Thanks, Tom for clearing this out for me ;) Yeah, this is one of the more confusing words in English... Check

Re: Segmentation fault

2000-12-14 Thread Jeremy Howard
Per Moeller wrote: A couple of days ago I asked the question below, but nobody seemed to be able to answer it. Well, in case somebody else runs into this problem I can tell that my solution to the problem was to use perl5.005 and not install perl5.6.0 until after i completed the

Re: Trouble with AxKit at runtime - XML parsing stage

2000-12-14 Thread Jeremy Howard
Dave Rolsky wrote: On Thu, 14 Dec 2000, Khachaturov, Vassilii wrote: http://bugs.perl.org/perlbug.cgi?req=querybody=Bizarre+copy seems to yield only one bug relevant to my particular error message case - http://bugs.perl.org/perlbug.cgi?req=bidbid=20001207.005range=6012format= H which

Re: greetings and questions

2000-12-14 Thread Jeremy Howard
Darren Duncan wrote: ... Now some questions that I hope some of you can help me with. Hopefully each has short answers. ... Hi Darren, I think that all of your questions are answered in the mod_perl guide, which is at: http://perl.apache.org/guide/ I don't have time right now to post a

Re: Mod_perl tutorials

2000-12-14 Thread Jeremy Howard
Randal L. Schwartz wrote: META COMMENT... Maybe it's time we spun off a mailing list for this discussion, unless it's still interesting to the rest of the onlookers. Anyone care to host it or take that on? I would have thought that most people here are interested in how to teach

Re: Email (mod_perl) Apache module?

2000-12-14 Thread Jeremy Howard
George Sanderson wrote: I think it would be cool to have an email Apache module. I was thinking that if the URL was something like: http://www.site.com/user/mail it would activate the module. The module would allow the users to read and send email. Kind of like how I did

[OT] Re: Which is good mailing list for perl developers.

2000-12-13 Thread Jeremy Howard
John Michael Soileau wrote: Excuse me if I make an error. This is my first post to this list and not sure how it all fits together exactly. I just joined the news perl list you selected to have a look at it and now wonder why you don't put this mailing list in the same type of setup.

Re: Apache::Session benchmarks

2000-12-12 Thread Jeremy Howard
Perrin Harkins wrote: Apache::Session::File - Dual-PIII-600/512MB/Linux 2.2.14SMP: Ran 4 times. First time: ~2.2s. Second time: ~5.0s. Third time: ~8.4s. Fourth time: ~12.2s. Is there any reason not to use a file tree approach (splitting first and second characters of filenames into

Re: Linux Hello World: TT Optimized...

2000-12-11 Thread Jeremy Howard
Joshua Chamas wrote: If you are using CGI.pm object methods, I would worry about calling all those methods to build your HTML and if you are performance minded, I would use them frugally. IIRC, CGI.pm is actually slower to run the functional syntax than the object syntax. This is because

Re: persistent connections for handlers

2000-12-09 Thread Jeremy Howard
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm also interested in this problem. I've been piping my mails to sendmail and I'm told that this is not a good idea with mod_perl. I find that talking to SMTP server is noticeably slower although I don't know whether the slowness is just in the initial connection.

[OT] Re: [ANNOUNCE] Take23

2000-12-07 Thread Jeremy Howard
On Wed, 6 Dec 2000, Matt Sergeant wrote: OK, so this isn't really much of an announcement, since its still the same web site. Anyway, I'm renaming modperl.sergeant.org to take23.org. DNS should propogate shortly. Until then its available at modperl.sergeant.org (and will continue to

Re: debuggers

2000-12-07 Thread Jeremy Howard
martin langhoff wrote: I wonder how do those hardcore guys that develop using handlers debug. Mhhh. They must write 'perlfect' code, I guess, and/or understand those cryptic debuggers ... Actually, debugging handlers is pretty easy. Just run httpd with the -X flag to make it single process,

Re: shared mem [was: mod_perl advocacy project resurrection]

2000-12-06 Thread Jeremy Howard
Perrin Harkins wrote: On Wed, 6 Dec 2000, Paul wrote: I was pointed to IPC::Sharable, IPC::Sharelite. I'll look at those. Take a look at IPC::MM for a shared memory hash implemented in C. Also, File::Cache is sometimes faster than the IPC modules. I don't think any of these solve

Re: [ libapreq ] desesperatly need of .32 or .33

2000-11-22 Thread Jeremy Howard
But before anyone bites off more than they can chew, perhaps some discussion of the current bugs and future needs for libapreq should be aired out. My own problems with libapreq revolved around the multipart buffer code, and since I patched it a while back, I haven't bumped into any other

Re: Re:coredump on Carps in startup.pl

2000-11-19 Thread Jeremy Howard
PJ When I start up apache (apachectl startssl), I get a core dump. PJ Attached is an "strace httpd -X" for those of you who find this useful. FWIW, I have the same issue also. I noticed it when using CGI::Carp. My solution was not "use" CGI::Carp; in startup.pl (a real lame solution, I know

Re: Re:coredump on Carps in startup.pl

2000-11-16 Thread Jeremy Howard
PJ When I start up apache (apachectl startssl), I get a core dump. PJ Attached is an "strace httpd -X" for those of you who find this useful. FWIW, I have the same issue also. I noticed it when using CGI::Carp. My solution was not "use" CGI::Carp; in startup.pl (a real lame solution, I

Re: Querying MS Access DB from ASP files through ODBC

2000-11-09 Thread Jeremy Howard
I'm not sure if this is the right place, but here goes my problem: I'm running Apache::ASP on apache 1.3.14 with mod_perl 1.24_01 on a i686 with RH 6.2. I've got a database query system written in ASP that at some point uses an ODBC connection to an MS Acess database to query it. The unusual

libapreq (Apache::Request) unhappiness

2000-08-04 Thread Jeremy Howard
and David's more efficient version? (Sorry, I'm no C guru...) -- Jeremy Howard [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: ignore header_only()?

2000-08-04 Thread Jeremy Howard
mode at the moment. I don't know why--maybe he's busy with v2 at the moment. If you don't have any luck on the dev list you could try mailing him directly, I guess. -- Jeremy Howard [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Prototype mismatches?

2000-08-01 Thread Jeremy Howard
that at the end of the import sub, it checks that the sub isn't already defined. Just wrap this around the last block in import(): if (!(defined {"${pkg}::$name"})) { import the const sub } I don't have this problem anymore with 5.6 though... -- Jeremy Howard [EMAIL PROTECTED] FastMai

Re: [OT] Error reads: Do you need to predeclare new?

2000-08-01 Thread Jeremy Howard
From: "Kenneth Lee" [EMAIL PROTECTED] I wrote a module CGI::CommonObject which is a subclass of CGI. If I preload them both in conf/startup.pl, error occurs when I try to instantiate CGI::CommonObject. ... my $q = new CGI::CommonObject; Kenneth, _never_ use that style of calling

Re: further adventures with taint

2000-07-26 Thread Jeremy Howard
obvious problem characters in Unix. A more robust version would specifically check for safe chars, rather than removing unsafe chars. -- Jeremy Howard [EMAIL PROTECTED] FastMail--Sign up at http://fastmail.fm

Re: further adventures with taint

2000-07-26 Thread Jeremy Howard
haps you need to add to your startup.pl (before any 'use' statements): delete @ENV{qw(PATH IFS CDPATH ENV BASH_ENV)}; -- Jeremy Howard [EMAIL PROTECTED] FastMail--Sign up at http://fastmail.fm

Re: SIGNAL 11 - Help anyone?

2000-07-25 Thread Jeremy Howard
PECT +0 End of Patch. -- Jeremy Howard [EMAIL PROTECTED]

File upload gateway (was Re: Forking off lengthy processes)

2000-07-10 Thread Jeremy Howard
and _then_ pass it on? -- Jeremy Howard [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Forking off lengthy processes

2000-07-09 Thread Jeremy Howard
kind of 'gateway' server? -- Jeremy Howard [EMAIL PROTECTED] FastMail--Sign up at http://fastmail.fm

Re: Apache::Request and memory

2000-06-24 Thread Jeremy Howard
with -g. I'm running latest Apache, mod_perl, and Perl, under Linux (2.2 kernel). PS: Can anyone point me to a tutorial on debugging XS modules? From time to time Doug provides some magic gdb commands which are really helpful--I'd love to be able to do this kind of stuff myself... -- Jeremy

Re: Apache::Request and memory

2000-06-24 Thread Jeremy Howard
, in order to work around the libapreq bug that your patch fixed! -- Jeremy Howard [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Apache::Request and memory

2000-06-23 Thread Jeremy Howard
possibly email me your current working libapreq sources?--perhaps there's some other differences hiding somewhere... Has anyone applied this patch and got it working with large uploads? -- Jeremy Howard [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Perl 5.6+mod_perl--nearly there now!

2000-06-10 Thread Jeremy Howard
a segfault using Apache::DB. -- Jeremy Howard [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Fwd: Re: [ID 20000527.001] Carp::Heavy - Bizarre copy of HASH in aassign

2000-06-07 Thread Jeremy Howard
You might remember the 'Bizarre copy of HASH in aassign' when using CGI::Carp I posted a workaround for... Here's an update from Perl 5 Porters--it's being fixed in the next release: - Original message - From: Gurusamy Sarathy [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Jeremy Howard [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date

Re: Memory usage for libareq uploads

2000-06-06 Thread Jeremy Howard
MAX_SIZE_KILLPROC; } -- Jeremy Howard [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- Jeremy Howard [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Memory usage for libareq uploads

2000-06-05 Thread Jeremy Howard
? TIA, Jeremy -- Jeremy Howard [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Bugs 5.6.0 modperl use?

2000-06-02 Thread Jeremy Howard
. That's why it's so hard to debug and replicate. -- Jeremy Howard [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Bugs 5.6.0 modperl use?

2000-06-02 Thread Jeremy Howard
Well, that turned out to be a challenging request! Here's a module that always segfaults, if you run with httpd -X -Dperldb -Dperlsi Sorry, I forgot to mention... the segfault only occurs if you _don't_ have Net::DNS installed. -- Jeremy Howard [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Perl 5.6+mod_perl bugs (was Re: Win32 mod_perl binary [update])

2000-05-30 Thread Jeremy Howard
Randy Kobes said: - the patch posted to this list a few days ago by Jeremy Howard for an error about a "Bizarre copy of HASH ...": In Carp::Heavy, change 'DB' to 'DB_tmp': Line 39: while (do { { package DB_tmp; @a =

Re: Bugs 5.6.0 modperl use?

2000-05-25 Thread Jeremy Howard
when 'shift' was used! I'll contact the relevant authors tomorrow. I don't know if this is a Perl 5.6 bug, or a module bug that 5.6 has surfaced. -- Jeremy Howard [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: XHTML_DTD redefined?

2000-05-25 Thread Jeremy Howard
fixed itself, so I haven't got the patched version anymore (I'm a bigger masochist than you, Randal--I upgraded Perl, mod_perl, and Apache all at the same time!) -- Jeremy Howard [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Prb: Apache::DB plus Perl 5.6 doesn't break

2000-05-19 Thread Jeremy Howard
have some subs outside of modules that wouldn't break properly... now they work fine! Is anyone aware of any specific reason not to switch to 5.6.0 with mod_perl for production machines (other than just 'in case')? -- Jeremy Howard [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [preview] Search engine for the Guide

2000-05-18 Thread Jeremy Howard
keep Randy CC'ed -- all the kudos should go his way :) When I search for 'dbi' or 'DBI', it finds nothing, and the search box shows 'dby'! It looks like it's try to helpfully change my search pattern... -- Jeremy Howard [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Prb: Apache::DB plus Perl 5.6 doesn't break

2000-05-18 Thread Jeremy Howard
in the works? -- Jeremy Howard [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Prb: Apache::DB plus Perl 5.6 doesn't break

2000-05-18 Thread Jeremy Howard
by the debugger. However, doing an 'L' doesn't show any breakpoints, and no breaks occur. I've tried replacing perl5db.pl in 5.6.0 with the version from 5.005_03, but the behaviour is the same. Anyone else having this trouble? Anyone successfully used Apache::DB in 5.6.0? -- Jeremy

Guide search engine (was Re: multiple copies of a module)

2000-05-17 Thread Jeremy Howard
separate to the rest of perl.apache.org, should it have a separate domain (modperlguide.org?, guide.perl.apache.org?)? -- Jeremy Howard [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Guide search engine (was Re: multiple copies of a module)

2000-05-17 Thread Jeremy Howard
Name Server: DNS.THAKKAR.NET Updated Date: 24-nov-1999 They're not using it though--maybe they would transfer? Probably better to stick in the perl.apache.org domain though. BTW, thanks to everyone who's already responded privately to my renewed request. Keep it up! -- Jeremy Howard

Re: Guide search engine (was Re: multiple copies of a module)

2000-05-17 Thread Jeremy Howard
to be a programming guru, of course... there's always plenty of ways to get involved in these things. -- Jeremy Howard [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: speed up/load balancing of session-based sites

2000-05-09 Thread Jeremy Howard
may have one additional redirect. The front-end server needs access to a central data store to do authentication (since it needs to know about _all_ users), but that only generally needs a username/password/userid, so it's unlikely to cause very much network traffic. -- Jeremy Howard [EMAIL

Re: [OT] Great book!

2000-05-09 Thread Jeremy Howard
class data * Blessing regexps, subs, and globs I could keep going, but there's a taste... There's a good forum at the attached web-site that Conway visits regularly. -- Jeremy Howard [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: search engine for the Guide

2000-05-05 Thread Jeremy Howard
At 01:28 PM 5/4/00 +0300, Stas Bekman wrote: Two things: 1) I'd better concentrate on improving the content and structure of the Guide and will leave this search engine task to someone who needs to use the Guide but find it unusable without the proper search engine. 2) perl.apache.org doesn't

Re: [request] live server updates + ideas for guide/control.html

2000-05-02 Thread Jeremy Howard
On 5/2/00 2:19 PM, Stas Bekman wrote: 2. The other request is about the "Controlling and Monitoring the Server" chapter itself. Do you think that in addition to the existing items (see below) you/we want to see other things related to this chapter. I'd be interested in seeing information on

Security in displaying arbitrary HTML

2000-04-27 Thread Jeremy Howard
I'm interested in providing 'HTML email' support for my users (like HotMail, Outlook Express, Eudora 4.0, etc provide), but I'm very nervous about security. Essentially, providing HTML email involves letting any arbitrary HTML get displayed by Apache... Has anyone done this, or can anyone

Re: Avoiding redefining constant subs

2000-04-13 Thread Jeremy Howard
I've been getting frustrated by the mandatory warning created by 'use constant' under mod_perl, caused by constant subroutines being redefined when imported. In particular, with Archive::Zip this was adding hundreds of lines to my log every restart. what version of Perl are you using?