OT: Are things really this bad?

2002-10-11 Thread Todd Finney
I was looking at jobs.perl.org this afternoon, and there are a lot of things on there like this: - we'll pay you when we have some money - $20-$30 an hour - Do all this, we'll give you $75. I'm not *really* in the market, but more work is always better. Are the jobs

Re: Hoping you could give advice

2002-09-20 Thread Todd Finney
At 08:31 PM 9/20/02, Todd Cranston-Cuebas wrote: Our existing team is great and you probably already know a few of our people (e.g., Ask, Stas, Doug, etc.) He has Ask, Stas, and Doug, and he's looking to beef up the team with a few heavyweights? I suddenly have feelings of gross inadequacy.

Re: $r-args vs $r-content

2002-05-13 Thread Todd Finney
At 10:29 PM 5/13/02, Mike Melillo wrote: It works, but if I use the method in the eagle book for POST requests %params = $r-content; then nothing gets returned. I've even printed %params to the apache errlog with DataDumper, and its empty. One of the fields is an image file that will be

RE: $r-args vs $r-content

2002-05-13 Thread Todd Finney
experimental any more. cheers, Todd At 11:49 PM 5/13/02, Mike Melillo wrote: No, It specifies multipart/form-data because page 131 of the eagle says its used for file uploads. Mike -Original Message- From: Todd Finney [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Monday, May 13, 2002 11:16 PM

Re: mod_perl cookbook ... next steps

2002-02-18 Thread Todd Finney
At 06:04 PM 2/18/02, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I would catch user sessions in PerlInitHandler/PerlTransHandler, store/check them in PerlAuthzHandler, where I would also set the cookie, and close or refresh them in PerlCleanupHandler. We do something similar, but we've segmented the process a

Re: mod_perl vs. C for high performance Apache modules

2001-12-14 Thread Todd Finney
At 03:12 PM 12/14/01, Jeff Yoak wrote: Recently I did a substantial project for a client in using mod_perl. That client is happy with the work, but an investor with their company is very angry because of what a horrible choice mod_perl is for high-load web applications compared

Re: Seeking Legal help

2001-11-21 Thread Todd Finney
At 06:38 PM 11/21/01, Michael Bacarella wrote: On Wed, Nov 21, 2001 at 03:21:06PM -0800, Medi Montaseri wrote: After months of promissing sweet equity, partnership, this and that, finally customer has asked me to invoice them and charge interest for the unpaid balance. At the same time

Re: Apache::Session not updating session

2001-08-14 Thread Todd Finney
At 03:27 AM 8/14/01, Michael A Nachbaur wrote: I'm using Apache::Session::File, and am setting a cookie for my sessionid, and my code is currently running in plain-old CGI mode (one of the libraries I'm using keeps segfaulting under mod_perl for some strange reason). When I visit the CGI, it

Re: Apache::Session not updating session

2001-08-14 Thread Todd Finney
At 11:07 AM 8/14/01, Jeffrey W. Baker wrote: On Tue, 14 Aug 2001, Todd Finney wrote: Isn't that what tied(%session)-make_modifed; is for? Yep. Perhaps it might be a good idea to mention it in the Apache::Session perldoc. I'm using 1.5mumble, and there's no word of it there. cheers, Todd

RE: Apache::Session not updating session

2001-08-14 Thread Todd Finney
At 11:39 AM 8/14/01, Geoffrey Young wrote: -Original Message- From: Todd Finney [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Subject: Re: Apache::Session not updating session At 11:07 AM 8/14/01, Jeffrey W. Baker wrote: On Tue, 14 Aug 2001, Todd Finney wrote: Isn't that what tied(%session

Re: Module to catch (and warn about) Code Red

2001-08-05 Thread Todd Finney
At 10:00 AM 8/5/01, Reuven M. Lerner wrote: Alessio Bragadini writes: Alessio The problem I see: is this module sending out a message Alessio every time, resulting to multiple messages to the same Alessio web/postmaster? Alessio My fear is that we substitute a virus with another...

Re: ePerl (fragment of Re: Apache::SimpleTemplate)

2001-07-09 Thread Todd Finney
Yea, I tried that, but it was still unhappy. There are apparently a couple of other tweaks that needed to be done. I didn't think too much about it; after the first error, I went looking for information and found the patch. http://cvsweb.netbsd.org/bsdweb.cgi/pkgsrc/textproc/eperl/Makefile

Re: ePerl (fragment of Re: Apache::SimpleTemplate)

2001-07-08 Thread Todd Finney
At 07:47 AM 7/8/01, Ged Haywood wrote: On Sat, 7 Jul 2001, Todd Finney wrote: We use ePerl for a fair number of things, and I have yet to run into something we needed of which it was not capable. Didn't I read somewhere that there were security concerns? There was a fix made in 1998

RE: ePerl (fragment of Re: Apache::SimpleTemplate)

2001-07-08 Thread Todd Finney
At 02:40 PM 7/8/01, Perrin Harkins wrote: We use ePerl for a fair number of things, and I have yet to run into something we needed of which it was not capable. What are you thinking of? It's not a question of it not being capable, it's just that most people seem to choose one of the

ePerl (fragment of Re: Apache::SimpleTemplate)

2001-07-07 Thread Todd Finney
At 06:10 PM 7/7/01, Perrin Harkins wrote: if i'm not mistaken, Apache::ePerl builds a new interpreter, which also seems like overkill for many needs. It's pretty easy to install, really. However, it's not very popular these days because it doesn't have all the features people end up

Re: is Apache::Request upload-fh lazy or not?

2001-04-14 Thread Todd Finney
At 05:17 AM 4/14/01, Thomas K. Burkholder wrote: I'd like to write upload code that shows progress (via a fork and refresh header trick - don't worry about that). What I'm wondering is, by the time I get $fh above (or even by the time I'm in the handler for all I know) do I already have the

Re: mirroring data across a server cluster [OT]

2001-04-02 Thread Todd Finney
Wouldn't it be easier to just buy an external RAID enclosure with dual scsi ports, and connect it both machines to the same disk backend? Your replication problem goes away, and you have half as many disks available for failure. Some models even allow for connection among three or more

Re: security

2001-03-01 Thread Todd Finney
Stas Bekman wrote: On Wed, 28 Feb 2001, Gustavo Vieira Goncalves Coelho Rios wrote: the key user\password are kept inside this file, so anyone can uses an editor to retrieve the user mysql account. I resolve this problem running php on secure mode and chgrping the php file the same

Re: garbled browser display

2001-02-16 Thread Todd Finney
At 05:21 AM 2/16/01, G.W. Haywood wrote: On Fri, 16 Feb 2001, Todd Finney wrote: I've noticed some strange behavior that I think is being caused somewhere in my handler sequence. Have you looked at the HTTP headers? Yes, nothing at all fishy. I think I may have corrected things

Apache::Session::DB_File and open sessions

2001-01-19 Thread Todd Finney
I'm having a hard time with Apache::Session::DB_File, and I think I have it narrowed down to a small enough problem to ask about it. I haven't given up on A::S::Postgres, I'm just trying to get things working with DB_File before I try to solve my other problem. The one-sentence version of

Re: Apache::Session::DB_File and open sessions

2001-01-19 Thread Todd Finney
Thanks to Perrin's suggestion (read: clue brick), things are much happier now. Going around the problem is just as good as fixing it, I suppose. I'm still curious about that behavior, though. cheers, Todd At 04:22 AM 1/19/01, Perrin Harkins wrote: Todd Finney wrote: The one-sentence

Apache::Session::Postgres error

2001-01-16 Thread Todd Finney
I'm using Apache::Session::Postgres to track sessions via cookies. When I access a page, the cookie is correctly sent by the server, and accepted by the client. However, on the second request, I'm getting a 'Object does not exist in data store' error. It looks like the session is not being

Re: Apache::Session::Postgres error

2001-01-16 Thread Todd Finney
At 01:28 PM 1/16/01, Edmund Mergl wrote: Todd Finney wrote: It looks like the session is not being stored in the database, although I can't figure out why. When running postmaster -d 2, I get the following output: This problem has been reported several times. find below

Re: Debugging information sent to browser

2001-01-12 Thread Todd Finney
At 12:07 PM 1/12/01, Blue Lang wrote: On Fri, 12 Jan 2001, J. J. Horner wrote: I'm also toying with the idea of allowing each script to have a DEBUG=1 option enabled in a handler so that as long as it is the script owner, verified by uid, trying to set the DEBUG=1 parameter in a URL,

Localizing Perl sections to VHosts

2000-12-22 Thread Todd Finney
I'm trying to move my VHost-specific libraries into more logical directories (for me). I have a number of them, and I'd rather not just use them all in my startup.pl - mostly because of concern over name collisions (Site1::connect_to_db(), Site2::connect_to_db()). If I use this in a

return DONE;

2000-11-15 Thread Todd Finney
Is returning DONE a Bad Thing? thanks, Todd

Re: modifying $subr-run

2000-11-06 Thread Todd Finney
At 02:14 AM 11/6/00, Perrin Harkins wrote: Todd Finney wrote: This another follow-up to a previous thread, "maximum (practical) size of $r-notes", from last week. We're trying to redirect the output of $subr-run(), and return it as a variable instead of sending it to t

modifying $subr-run

2000-11-05 Thread Todd Finney
This another follow-up to a previous thread, "maximum (practical) size of $r-notes", from last week. We're trying to redirect the output of $subr-run(), and return it as a variable instead of sending it to the browser. I've poked around the mod_perl and Apache code, and it doesn't look

Re: maximum (practical) size of $r-notes

2000-11-01 Thread Todd Finney
cousins) the scripts doesn't sound pretty, but I'm at a loss on what else to try. thanks, Todd At 12:29 AM 10/30/00, Todd Finney wrote: This is a follow-up on a question that I asked a couple of months ago. The subject was "executing a cgi from within a handler (templating redux)&qu

handler not quite doing what I expect

2000-09-12 Thread Todd Finney
Hi, I have a handler - we talked about it a few weeks ago, Templating Redux - that mostly works. It takes any page request, and wraps it in a template file while also adding some cookie-defined components to the template. One of the problems it is having is when I try to insert a cgi

Re: executing a cgi from within a handler (templating redux)

2000-08-24 Thread Todd Finney
a look at it. thanks again, Todd On Wed, 23 Aug 2000, Todd Finney wrote: Hi, I'm building a simple templating system. The major requirement of the system is that allow custom dynamic headers, footers, and toolbars based upon the identity of the user. The system so far works like

executing a cgi from within a handler (templating redux)

2000-08-23 Thread Todd Finney
Hi, I'm building a simple templating system. The major requirement of the system is that allow custom dynamic headers, footers, and toolbars based upon the identity of the user. The system so far works like this: - a user enters the site and logs in. The names of the user's

Re: executing a cgi from within a handler (templating redux)

2000-08-23 Thread Todd Finney
Thanks, Ken. We looked at Template::Toolkit and also at Axkit, but both seemed to be much larger hammers than we needed. It also (and I could be incorrect here) did not appear to have the capability to select the included component dynamically based upon information provided at request

Re: executing a cgi from within a handler (templating redux)

2000-08-23 Thread Todd Finney
At 03:00 PM 8/23/00, Matt Sergeant wrote: On Wed, 23 Aug 2000, Todd Finney wrote: Almost, but we still have a couple of concerns about it. First, it would mean that we'd have to update all the cgis to not use CGI.pm for form argument handling. I doubt thats true - CGI.pm just gets its

Re: Re: redirecting a domain [OT]

2000-07-16 Thread Todd Finney
At 10:23 PM 7/16/00, Barry Hoggard wrote: No! That's a silly way to do it. You want to use mod_rewrite. Here's the relevant part of my httpd.conf: RewriteEngine On RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} !^www.investorama.com$ RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} !^$ RewriteRule /?(.*) http://www.investorama.com/$1

Re: Re: Re: redirecting a domain [OT]

2000-07-16 Thread Todd Finney
At 12:26 AM 7/17/00, Tom Brown wrote: On Sun, 16 Jul 2000, Barry Hoggard wrote: Nothing is wrong with that solution if you only have a few domains. We own a lot of misspellings of our company name, so I don't want to add each of them individually to the conf file. double that count...

Re: missing modules/perl/libperl.a

2000-04-11 Thread Todd Finney
At 11:49 PM 4/11/00 , Doug MacEachern wrote: On Thu, 6 Apr 2000, Todd Finney wrote: I'm attempting to recompile Stronghold with mod_perl, and I've run into a problem that no set of instructions (that I've seen) seem to help with. Any assistance/advice/RTFMs would be appreciated. mod_perl

Re: missing modules/perl/libperl.a

2000-04-07 Thread Todd Finney
It would appear, from the lack of response to this message, that I've either asked: 1) a really dumb question that's been beaten to death and I just haven't noticed the previous thread. or 2) a really hard question that no one has the answer to. (Given

Re: mod_perl not compiling into apache 1.3.6

1999-11-06 Thread Todd Finney
I think I figured it out. I eliminated the --enable-shared=perl from the Apache configure line, and it works. I think it wasn't working because I compiled mod_perl as a DSO, and then didn't use --enable-module=so in my Apache configure statement. Is that correct? thanks, Todd Hi, I'm