Re: [ ANNOUNCE ] Apache::SessionManager-0.07

2000-10-30 Thread Dave Rolsky
On Mon, 30 Oct 2000, Greg Cope wrote: > I agree but apache has regex.h ... a regex libary - hence these should > be possible - or am I missing the point ? My point was simply that while Perl makes easy things easy, C makes all things hard ;) Frankly, I prefer it as a Perl module since I can see

Re: [OT][ ANNOUNCE ] Apache::SessionManager-0.07

2000-10-30 Thread G.W. Haywood
Hi Gerald, On Mon, 30 Oct 2000, Gerald Richter wrote: > Also there are a lot of nice libraries around, programming in C will > always take much more time (I would say 2 to 10 times), then writing > the same in Perl. Good to have confirmation of my suspicions! 73, Ged.

Re: [OT][ ANNOUNCE ] Apache::SessionManager-0.07

2000-10-30 Thread G.W. Haywood
Hi Greg, On Mon, 30 Oct 2000, Greg Cope wrote: > I agree but apache has regex.h ... a regex libary - hence these should > be possible - or am I missing the point ? Actually regex.h is just a header file which contains the definitions (functions, data structures etc) for the library. There are

Re: [ ANNOUNCE ] Apache::SessionManager-0.07

2000-10-30 Thread Gerald Richter
> > > > I think you're forgetting about little things like regexes and such. Yes, > > Perl and C share a lot of syntax, but there are many things you can do > > easily in Perl that are brutal in C. > > I agree but apache has regex.h ... a regex libary - hence these should > be possible - or am I m

Re: [OT] [ ANNOUNCE ] Apache::SessionManager-0.07

2000-10-30 Thread G.W. Haywood
Hi Dave, On Mon, 30 Oct 2000, Dave Rolsky wrote: > On Mon, 30 Oct 2000, G.W. Haywood wrote: > > If you can write Perl you can write C, there are onlya couple of dozen > > keywords. > > I think you're forgetting about little things like regexes and such. Maybe glossing over, not forgetting - tha

Re: [ ANNOUNCE ] Apache::SessionManager-0.07

2000-10-30 Thread Greg Cope
Dave Rolsky wrote: > > On Mon, 30 Oct 2000, G.W. Haywood wrote: > > > If you can write Perl you can write C, there are onlya couple of dozen > > keywords. It's just that you're not so mollycoddled in C, you're much > > closer to the machine, and you have to plan further ahead (instead of > > wa

Re: [ ANNOUNCE ] Apache::SessionManager-0.07

2000-10-30 Thread Dave Rolsky
On Mon, 30 Oct 2000, G.W. Haywood wrote: > If you can write Perl you can write C, there are onlya couple of dozen > keywords. It's just that you're not so mollycoddled in C, you're much > closer to the machine, and you have to plan further ahead (instead of > waiting for the bang:). I prefer it

Re: [ ANNOUNCE ] Apache::SessionManager-0.07

2000-10-30 Thread Bill Moseley
At 10:07 AM 10/30/00 +, Greg Cope wrote: >Gunther Birznieks wrote: >> This is an issue if your index.html requires the session id. So if you >> direct to / you'll lose it. It's not bad if index.html is static, but it >> could be generated via a handler or perhaps it's an index.cgi > >This shou

Re: [ ANNOUNCE ] Apache::SessionManager-0.07

2000-10-30 Thread Greg Cope
"G.W. Haywood" wrote: > > Hi there, > > On Mon, 30 Oct 2000, Greg Cope wrote: > > > In theory there is no reason why this should not be translateable to C, > > it is quite small (in perl). > > However: > > a) I cannot do C (and translating this is beyond me as a learning > > exercise at the mo)

Re: [ ANNOUNCE ] Apache::SessionManager-0.07

2000-10-30 Thread G.W. Haywood
Hi there, On Mon, 30 Oct 2000, Greg Cope wrote: > In theory there is no reason why this should not be translateable to C, > it is quite small (in perl). > However: > a) I cannot do C (and translating this is beyond me as a learning > exercise at the mo). > b) Also waiting is a good idea till all

Re: [ ANNOUNCE ] Apache::SessionManager-0.07

2000-10-30 Thread Greg Cope
Gunther Birznieks wrote: > > At 01:31 AM 10/30/2000 +, Greg Cope wrote: > >[...snip...] > > > > > > And don't forget about the use of DirectoryIndex: > > > GET /index.html http/1.0 > > > > > > HTTP/1.1 302 Found <<== here's your redirect > > > > > > Now this gets through: > > > GET / http/1.

Re: [ ANNOUNCE ] Apache::SessionManager-0.07

2000-10-29 Thread Gunther Birznieks
At 01:31 AM 10/30/2000 +, Greg Cope wrote: >[...snip...] > > > > And don't forget about the use of DirectoryIndex: > > GET /index.html http/1.0 > > > > HTTP/1.1 302 Found <<== here's your redirect > > > > Now this gets through: > > GET / http/1.0 > >Hum ... > >Nice one - I had not tried this

[ ANNOUNCE ] Apache::SessionManager-0.07

2000-10-29 Thread Greg Cope
Bill Moseley wrote: > > At 05:24 PM 10/29/00 +, Greg Cope wrote: > >Announcing Apache::SessionManager. > > Hi Greg, > > Here's a couple of other comments. I should have mentioned that this was my first bit of public code - and to be gentle .. > > Don't forget to keep track of args on red