Re: API Design Question

2001-06-30 Thread Martin Redington
On Friday, June 29, 2001, at 07:25 , Shawn Devlin wrote: What advantages do I gain by grouping the functions based on functionality? As per my response to Mr. Worrall, one of my concerns with placing each function call into its own module is the amount of memory used by the various .pm

Re: Is ProxyPass the best you can do?

2001-06-16 Thread Martin Redington
Squid is the alternative mentioned in the mod_perl_tuning.pod that comes with mod_perl. Alternatively, you could try using mod_rewrite, to direct requests for scripts to a different apache instance (e.g. running on a separate port or ip). I've never tried this, but it should work. Squid

Re: Is ProxyPass the best you can do?

2001-06-16 Thread Martin Redington
Can Squid read Apache configuration files? On a new site I'm making (www.shoujoai.com), I have directives in httpd.conf like this: Never used it, I'm afraid ... Alternatively, you could try using mod_rewrite, to direct requests for scripts to a different apache instance (e.g. running on a

Re: ssl encryption

2001-06-14 Thread Martin Redington
Not storing the credit card numbers at all would be the best option :-) If you must, we've usually used crypt for one-way encryption, or Crypt::BlowFish for stuff we need to be able to decrypt (look after your key!). On Thursday, June 14, 2001, at 09:54 pm, Tim Gardner wrote: When apache

Re: IP based instant throttle?

2001-06-07 Thread Martin Redington
Do you get flooded that frequently that this is an issue? I've seen DOS, and various buffer overflows etc. in the real world, but I've never seen this. Unless its happening very often, I would have thought that some monitoring and a 2am Deny from ip in your httpd.conf would be enough ...

Re: Perm Module VM_Monitor (fwd)

2001-06-06 Thread Martin Redington
It can be a real nightmare getting it all compiled and working, especially if you're not on Linux, but it is worth it in the end. I strongly recommend building everything yourself from the ground up, wherever possible, especially if you're working in a production environment. Vendor-supplied

Re: advice on Apache::DBI Apache::Session and Apache::AuthCookieDBI intergration

2001-06-03 Thread Martin Redington
On Sunday, June 3, 2001, at 12:28 pm, Clayton Cottingham aka drfrog wrote: heres what im caught on : 1.is it best to load Apache::DBI at start up of apache and can i load more than one connection type? yes via PerlModule or a PerlRequire for a startup.pl. My understanding is that

Re: dyld problems with Apache 1.3.19 and mod_perl/mod_php on Mac OS X 10.0.03

2001-06-01 Thread Martin Redington
On Friday, June 1, 2001, at 08:33 am, Ged Haywood wrote: On Fri, 1 Jun 2001, Martin Redington wrote: I'm having some some difficulties with Apache 1.3.19 and mod_perl/mod_php. [On Mac OS X] Never built on the Mac myself, some people had trouble, looks like you're an expert. I

dyld problems with Apache 1.3.19 and mod_perl/mod_php on Mac OS X 10.0.03

2001-05-31 Thread Martin Redington
I'm having some some difficulties with Apache 1.3.19 and mod_perl/mod_php. Everything builds fine, but I get dyld multiple definition errors in some circumstances. I believe this is connected to the OX X dyld's insistence on freaking out with multiple definitions (so non Mac OS X users might