Re: Mason vs embperl

2001-12-20 Thread dom
So I installed and compared. I preferred the syntax of Mason, the flexible way to build components, the caching ... it have to be said here that I choose Mason ... I agree, the caching is very good and one gets up and running in no time with Mason. However, I find it imposes too much of a

Re: Dynamically serving an .htaccess file with mod_perl

2002-01-29 Thread dom
Does anyone know of a way that I can server the contents of an .htaccess file dynamically? Make the .htacess file in question a FIFO, with a script on the backend that Does The Right Thing. Whoops, you would loose big when two concurrent Apache processes attempt to access the .htaccess

Re: [OT-ish] Session refresh philosophy

2002-02-20 Thread dom
The usual objection I've heard to using form fields is the security risk of people changing hidden fields in ways unforseen before submitting the form back, or of other people finding confidential data hidden in form fields if the user walks away and leaves their browser open, or the web

Re: [OT-ish] Session refresh philosophy

2002-02-21 Thread dom
You've addressed the issue of someone submitting a form with altered fields to attack the server, and pointed out some more advantages, but I don't think you've addressed the issue of protecting the hidden cleartext data from others on the client side. True. But to tackle these concerns,

Re: how to pass data in internal redirects?

2002-02-26 Thread dom
I suppose that controllers would use internal redirects to call the views, is there a way to pass Perl data this way? For the project I work on (a WWW-enabled PKI), we simply use CGI-encoded URLs. This way, we can do the controllers in Perl and the views in PHP, which is great for security

Re: I can see Apache.pm, why can't he?

2002-07-29 Thread dom
Line 199 checks for Apache.pm and Apache::Status, thus: if ($INC('Apache.pm') and Apache-module('Apache::Status')); I have both Apache.pm and Apache::Status installed. Yes but Apache::module (which called by Apache-module('Apache::Status')) is an XS function defined by libperl.so - it

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: evil scripts kill the server...

2002-10-16 Thread dom
although it never happened to me i have to fight some rumours. Is it true that you can kill the whole server, not just the script if you do something wrong with mod_perl? (I doubt it) It depends on what wrong thing you do. In fact the worse you can do is to kill one of the mod_perl

Re: Accessing configuration information

2002-11-21 Thread dom
Hi All I know I can use $r-dir_config() to access parameter values set in the config file with PerlSetVar, but is it possible to access the value of generic Apache configuration directives? This is described in the [EagleBook] (worth your money, IMHO), and this particular chapter is

Re: Database Pooling

2003-01-02 Thread dom
Well, it's going to be a pretty strange environment that doesn't have a database connection in every process. Sure. And beware of connections that are returned to the pool without being rollbacked, too - the app then deadlocks itself because it holds locks in the database and doesn't know it

Re: Database Pooling

2003-01-02 Thread dom
Sounds like you should have some more code in your finally blocks. :) Well I don't quite like having to do that everywhere, especially in code I did not write. In Perl I only need one of them using some AUTOLOAD trickery :-). -- Dominique QUATRAVAUX Ingénieur

Re: sed error in perl Makefile.pl

2003-01-03 Thread dom
I have to rebuild my perl and go through the Configure process to tell it to ignore `hostname`, unless you know a trick for that, too! Well, what about creating a custom shell script named hostname, turn it executable, and put it somewhere in your PATH ? #!/bin/sh echo darkstar.frop.org --

Off-topic-ness

2003-01-23 Thread dom
This is a diverse list with many different levels of Internet experience represented, and one off-topic post is not a big enough problem to merit banning people. (my 0.02 Euros...) I have to say that beyond the technical competence of people on this list (which is excellent), I'm very

Re: sftp

2003-01-27 Thread dom
hi everybody Do someone know how to connect to a distant host with perl (via sftp) and copy file from the host ? You could just launch the sftp command using system(), or better, the IPC::Run module from CPAN that was discussed here some time ago. I would be surprised to hear that there be

Re: [mp2] CGI redirects incorrectly handled?

2003-03-19 Thread dom
The cause of the problem was my perl code calling flush.pl and flushing STDOUT at a point prior to it printing the response headers. Under mp2, flushing STDOUT calls mpxs_output_flush in xs/Apache/RequestIO/Apache__RequestIO.h, which in turn calls ap_rflush, which triggers creation of the