Re: pass-thru/redirect/DECLINE to *.jpg
my $fh=$pic-open; #returns the filehandle $r-send_fd($fh); close($fh); return OK; I used send_fd because it seemed from the documentation that it is a easier/better(?) method than rewriting the URI and setting default-handler. Is that not so? if you were to use default-handler then Apache would handle stuff like conditional GETs properly, relieving your server from needing to serve the same content over and over again for images, which probably don't change that often. of course, you can use the methods from Apache::File, like meets_conditions() and set_last_modified() to do that yourself and still use send_fd() :) --Geoff
pass-thru/redirect/DECLINE to *.jpg
I have a completely mod_perl handler-based web app set up as so: Location ~ ^/myapp PerlHandler Client::WWW SetHandler perl-script PerlSetVar ConfigFile /home/ajm6q/myapp/data/www-config /Location The Client::WWW handler decides what to do based on the path_info of the URI (passing off responsibility in a ChainOfResponsibility pattern): http://www.mysite.com/myapp - home /myapp/newuser - new user functionality /myapp/deluser - delete user functionliaty And so on. What I'm having difficulty grasping is how to best handle image, js, css or other static resource requests that fall under the ^/myapp Location ... Client::WWW is currently trying to handle http://mysite.com/myapp/images/dot.gif To further complicate issues, the ConfigFile contains information about where various resources reside (perhaps /home/ajm6q/myapp/data/images for example). These are not under the server's DocumentRoot. I think my options are: 1. Reset the DocumentRoot in each Location to point to /home/ajm6q/myapp/data/, and have Client::WWW return DECLINED if the request is for a static resource, so that the request will drop back to Apache ... not sure this would even work, and makes the config file a tad worthless. 2. Install a translation handler that sets the filename of the request appropriately; not sure if this would prevent Client::WWW from handling the request, but would allow a DECLINED drop back to Apache to work without mucking with DocumentRoot ... I think. 3. Have Client::WWW do a subrequest (via lookup_file), and run that directly. 4. ??? TIMTOWTDI is getting me down right about now. Thanks for your advice, -Aaron
Re: pass-thru/redirect/DECLINE to *.jpg
Hi there, On Tue, 17 Dec 2002, Aaron J Mackey wrote: I have a completely mod_perl handler-based web app set up as so: Location ~ ^/myapp PerlHandler Client::WWW SetHandler perl-script PerlSetVar ConfigFile /home/ajm6q/myapp/data/www-config /Location [snip] What I'm having difficulty grasping is how to best handle image, js, css or other static resource requests that fall under the ^/myapp Location I'd tend to put image files etc in a directory of their own outside any which might be involved in Perl scripting, thus avoiding this issue. Is that not easy in your case? It seems a bit wasteful to have a mod_perl Apache process involved at all in serving .jpg and other static files. Why not run a two-Apache setup and let the non-mod_perl server serve them without even letting a heavyweight process see the request? It's described in the Guide. 73, Ged.
Re: pass-thru/redirect/DECLINE to *.jpg
From: Ged Haywood [EMAIL PROTECTED] It seems a bit wasteful to have a mod_perl Apache process involved at all in serving .jpg and other static files. Why not run a two-Apache setup and let the non-mod_perl server serve them without even letting a heavyweight process see the request? It's described in the Guide. Not necessarily. There are always exceptions. For example, take a look at http://pics.beamartyr.net/ All of the pictures there go through mod_perl handlers which translate the entire path into a unique database entry. The application then stats the file on the filesystem, and does: my $fh=$pic-open; #returns the filehandle $r-send_fd($fh); close($fh); return OK; I used send_fd because it seemed from the documentation that it is a easier/better(?) method than rewriting the URI and setting default-handler. Is that not so? Issac
