Re: url to png/jpeg

2002-10-03 Thread Mike P. Mikhailov
Hello Alastair Stuart, Sunday, September 29, 2002, 6:46:49 PM, you wrote: AS Hi, AS Somewhere read about converting urls to jpegs on the fly using modperl ?? AS Preferrably, to png AS TIA AS AS Alastair Stuart AS Perl Person Look at Apache::ImageMagic. It uses Image::Magic

Re: cookies and IE

2002-10-03 Thread Jean-Michel Hiver
Wouldn't be the first time I've been wrong. I do know that I was seeing inconsistent behavior with cookies not being saved in a redirect page (mostly IE PC, but not 100% of the time), but I didn't spend any time worrying about it because of the previous messages I remembered. A quick

Re: Defaulting to default-handler from custom handler

2002-10-03 Thread Geoffrey Young
All four cases result in the Perl code being displayed instead of the script being executed? If a location is defined as a ScriptAlias, then is the default-handler == perl-script? and would returning DECLINED result in mod_cgi handling the request? What am I doing wrong? perl-script is

install/config mod_perl-2(1.99_08)

2002-10-03 Thread Paul Simon
Is there something in the configuration not jiving? Windows 2000, Apache 2.0.42, mod_perl-2(1.99_08-dev via ppm) In http.conf I have:Include conf/test.confAddHandler cgi-script .cgiIn test.conf I have:PerlRequire "C:/Apache2/conf/startup.pl"Location /test/ Options +ExecCGI SetHandler perl-script

Re: Easy internal redirect question

2002-10-03 Thread Geoffrey Young
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I've got a bit of a better grasp on the problem nowI think it's an interaction with POST data... I have a form in foo.html form action=/rms/admin method=post input type=hidden name=task value=process_config ...other form fields... /form I submit

Re: [BUG] Losing GET/POST-data

2002-10-03 Thread Hakan Nilsson
On Wed, 2 Oct 2002, Wes Cravens wrote: On 02 Oct 2002 15:23 GMT I wrote: Hi! We're developing a perl module for apache/mod_perl, but have encountered a really strange problem. After 'a while' we seem to lose the data sent to the apache-server, at least it never reaches our

mod_perl SSL compression: Apache-Dynazip vs mod_gzip?

2002-10-03 Thread Nigel Hamilton
Hi, I've been using mod_gzip for the last 18 months and it has worked really well for dynamic pages and static content. However, recently I've needed to use SSL, but I've heard the combination of mod_gzip and SSL is buggy on some browsers. I've checked out

Re: [BUG] Losing GET/POST-data

2002-10-03 Thread Nigel Hamilton
Hi Hakan, CGI::Minimal has a truncate function that picks up invalid CGI data ... this may help. Nigel On Wed, 2 Oct 2002, Wes Cravens wrote: On 02 Oct 2002 15:23 GMT I wrote: Hi! We're developing a perl module for apache/mod_perl, but have encountered a really

asynchronous downloads

2002-10-03 Thread Andrew G. Hammond
How do I send a file asynchronously? The classic example is download sites. You click on the file you want and it generates a thankyou page for your browser and also sends the file. So what's the correct way to do this?

Re: asynchronous downloads

2002-10-03 Thread dom
How do I send a file asynchronously? The classic example is download sites. You click on the file you want and it generates a thankyou page for your browser and also sends the file. So what's the correct way to do this? Use a refresh META tag on the thank-you page, that points to

Re: asynchronous downloads

2002-10-03 Thread Kevin Berggren
I think many sites use the meta refresh html tag. i.e. htmlhead ... META HTTP-EQUIV=Refresh CONTENT=2;URL=file_i_want_to_download.gz ... Netscape has a complete reference on this at http://developer.netscape.com/docs/manuals/htmlguid/tags3.htm#1697602 You could probably also set a refresh

how to detect a broken connection using mod_proxy

2002-10-03 Thread giorgos
hi all, i am running standard setup with one plain apache with mod_proxy and a mod_perl apache to which all mod_perl requests are directed by the proxy module. i want to be able to detect when the client connection breaks but all standard recipes like the one mentioned in p.147 of the cookbook

RE: Easy internal redirect question

2002-10-03 Thread FFabrizio
After further review, the problem was CGI.pm. CGI.pm doesn't appear to get 'reset' on an internal_redirect (I'm not familiar with CGI's support for mod_perl, so maybe this should have been obvious!) so it was still holding the old parameter values. A quick install of Apache::Request and a

Dynamlcally loading modules at run-time

2002-10-03 Thread Jochen Lillich
Hi, I'm writing my first mod_perl handler. I'd like to make the handler some kind of dispatcher that dynamically loads certain modules depending on the URI called: /foo/index = require foo; $result = foo::index(); /foo/other = require foo; $result = foo::other(); /bar/index = require bar;

Re: Dynamlcally loading modules at run-time

2002-10-03 Thread Geoffrey Young
Jochen Lillich wrote: Hi, I'm writing my first mod_perl handler. I'd like to make the handler some kind of dispatcher that dynamically loads certain modules depending on the URI called: /foo/index = require foo; $result = foo::index(); /foo/other = require foo; $result = foo::other();

Re: Dynamlcally loading modules at run-time

2002-10-03 Thread Jason Galea
Hi Jochen, I'd recommend having a read of this http://perl.apache.org/docs/1.0/guide/performance.html#Sharing_Memory Not sure how much it applies to your situation, but basically, unless the different modules are very large and rarely used you really want to load them all at server startup.

Re: install/config mod_perl-2(1.99_08)

2002-10-03 Thread Randy Kobes
On Thu, 3 Oct 2002, Paul Simon wrote: Is there something in the configuration not jiving? Windows 2000, Apache 2.0.42, mod_perl-2(1.99_08-dev via ppm) In http.conf I have: Include conf/test.conf AddHandler cgi-script .cgi In test.conf I have: PerlRequire C:/Apache2/conf/startup.pl

RE: install/config mod_perl-2(1.99_08)

2002-10-03 Thread Ben Mathews
You say eventually perl 5.8 will be recommended. Why is it not the recommended version now? I am developing a windows application currently and started out with activestate perl 5.6.1, apache 2, and mod_perl 1.99. I ran into a lot of problems and blamed them on mod_perl because it is still

RE: install/config mod_perl-2(1.99_08)

2002-10-03 Thread Randy Kobes
On Thu, 3 Oct 2002, Ben Mathews wrote: You say eventually perl 5.8 will be recommended. Why is it not the recommended version now? That's really Doug's call, but perhaps one consideration holding back a recommendation of 5.8 on Win32 is that ActiveState won't be making a perl-5.8 binary in

Re: Graphics and mod_perl

2002-10-03 Thread Randy Kobes
On Wed, 2 Oct 2002, Justin Luster wrote: I'm new to mod_perl and I'm really enjoying it. It has really improved performance. Right now I'm just using Modperl::Registry to speed up things. I have a question about showing graphics using a Perl Script and running it through mod_perl. [ ...

[OT] Re: asynchronous downloads

2002-10-03 Thread Issac Goldstand
- Original Message - From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, October 03, 2002 5:09 PM Subject: Re: asynchronous downloads How do I send a file asynchronously? The classic example is download sites. You click on the file you want and it generates a

Backtraces on recurring segfaults on mod_perl-1.27/apache-1.3.26

2002-10-03 Thread dbohling
I've managed to get a couple of backtraces on a segfault problem we've been having for months now. The segfaults occur pretty rarely on the whole, but once a client triggers one on a particular page, they do not stop. The length and content of the request are key in making the segfaults

Apache::AuthDBI problem

2002-10-03 Thread Robert Boone
I'm having trouble with the AuthDBI module. If works fine if use require valid-user or require user. But when I try to require group I get this error: couldn't check access. No groups file?: /test/ What am I doing wrong? This is my .htaccess file. AuthName DBI AuthType Basic PerlAuthenHandler

Re: install/config mod_perl-2(1.99_08)

2002-10-03 Thread Paul Simon
Randy Kobes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>wrote: On Thu, 3 Oct 2002, Paul Simon wrote: Is there something in the configuration not jiving? Windows 2000, Apache 2.0.42, mod_perl-2(1.99_08-dev via ppm) In http.conf I have: Include conf/test.conf AddHandler cgi-script .cgi In test.conf I have: PerlRequire

Re: [mp2.0] wrong crypt behavior

2002-10-03 Thread Rick Bradley
On Fri, 6 Sep 2002 08:23:33 +0200 Toma'? Procha'zka [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: For comparsion of password user entered and password stored in database is crypt function used. Here is the code: my $real_pass = $d-[0][0]; # crypted password from database my $salt = substr $real_pass,0,2; #

Response Headers

2002-10-03 Thread Paul Simon
How do HTTP headers work under Registery::ModPerl?set up: windows2000 apache2.0.42 mod_perl/1.99_08-dev Perl/v5.8.0 I had to comment out the following in the CGI script: #print "Expires: " . time2str( time() + 432000 ) . "\n";#print "Content-type: text/html\n\n"; because it would print out as

Re: Response Headers

2002-10-03 Thread Randy Kobes
On Thu, 3 Oct 2002, Paul Simon wrote: How do HTTP headers work under Registery::ModPerl? set up: windows2000 apache2.0.42 mod_perl/1.99_08-dev Perl/v5.8.0 I had to comment out the following in the CGI script: #print Expires: . time2str( time() + 432000 ) . \n; #print Content-type:

Re: mod_perl SSL compression: Apache-Dynazip vs mod_gzip?

2002-10-03 Thread Slava Bizyayev
Hi Nigel, - Original Message - From: Nigel Hamilton To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, October 03, 2002 6:29 PM ... However, recently I've needed to use SSL, but I've heard the combination of mod_gzip and SSL is buggy on some browsers. You are right, there are some known issues

[Q][LONG] using IPC::Shareable to cache data, Apache doesnt start

2002-10-03 Thread Juan Natera
Hello everyone, I am trying to use a IPC::Shareable tied hash to cache some data at the start of apache from my startup.pl script. this is my startup.pl - $ENV{GATEWAY_INTERFACE} =~ /^CGI-Perl/ or die GATEWAY_INTERFACE not Perl!; use Apache::Registry; use Apache::DBI; use

Re: [Q][LONG] using IPC::Shareable to cache data, Apache doesnt start

2002-10-03 Thread Perrin Harkins
Juan Natera wrote: The worst of all is that Apache simply doesnt start, and I get no error message at all. The error might be on the console, or you could try capturing it and writing it to a file. However, I suggest you ditch IPC::Shareable since it's dog slow. Use MLDBM::Sync,

perl script not reloading

2002-10-03 Thread Michael Grant
It seems that as I work on my script, Apache doesn't reload it when the script changes on disk. It seems like it's something that I did because it used to. Is there some common well known thing or set of things one can screw up to make this happen? (if so, it should be documented in the

Re: Re: Defaulting to default-handler from custom handler

2002-10-03 Thread Carlos Ramirez
Yup that fixed it, setting the handler via $r-handler('cgi-script') in a FixupHandler works. The table in the mod_perl cookbook (pg452) says is all. I must have overlooked that bit of information while I was banging my head on the my desk trying to get this to work. Thanks for the help and the