Re: return DECLINED or OK?

2008-02-28 Thread Philippe M. Chiasson
J. Peng wrote: At what cases should we return a DECLINED or a OK from a handler? Depends on the request phase you are running under, and ultimately, it's dictated by apache [1] I saw the handler of PerlTransHandler returns a Apache2::Const::DECLINED but dont know why. In a nutshell, there a

Re: return DECLINED or OK?

2008-02-28 Thread Geoffrey Young
J. Peng wrote: At what cases should we return a DECLINED or a OK from a handler? I saw the handler of PerlTransHandler returns a Apache2::Const::DECLINED but dont know why. see the introduction to part III here: http://www.modperlcookbook.org/chapters.html in general, trans handlers retur

Re: return DECLINED or OK?

2008-02-28 Thread J. Peng
Thanks to all. That really be helpful.

Re: return DECLINED or OK?

2008-02-28 Thread J. Peng
On Fri, Feb 29, 2008 at 11:26 AM, Geoffrey Young <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > they usually > alter the uri then let the default apache trans handler do the mapping. btw, mapping uri to disk sources in apache2 was done in MapToStorageHandler rather than Trans handler, is it?

Re: return DECLINED or OK?

2008-02-29 Thread Torsten Foertsch
On Fri 29 Feb 2008, J. Peng wrote: > btw, mapping uri to disk sources in apache2 was done in > MapToStorageHandler rather than Trans handler, is it? The Trans handler's task is to decide which file on disk belongs to a certain URI. So when the Trans handler is done $r->filename must not be empty.

Re: return DECLINED or OK?

2008-02-29 Thread J. Peng
On Fri, Feb 29, 2008 at 7:03 PM, Torsten Foertsch <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Example continued: The entry /var/www/a/b exists on disk either as file or as > directory but /var/www/a/b/c does not. Then after MapToStorage $r->filename > is /var/www/a/b and $r->path_info is /c/d/e. > Sorry I c

Re: return DECLINED or OK?

2008-02-29 Thread Torsten Foertsch
On Fri 29 Feb 2008, J. Peng wrote: > On Fri, Feb 29, 2008 at 7:03 PM, Torsten Foertsch > > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Example continued: The entry /var/www/a/b exists on disk either as file > > or as directory but /var/www/a/b/c does not. Then after MapToStorage > > $r->filename is /var/www/a/

Re: return DECLINED or OK?

2008-02-29 Thread Raymond Wan
Hi, J. Peng wrote: On Fri, Feb 29, 2008 at 7:03 PM, Torsten Foertsch <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Example continued: The entry /var/www/a/b exists on disk either as file or as directory but /var/www/a/b/c does not. Then after MapToStorage $r->filename is /var/www/a/b and $r->path_info is

Re: return DECLINED or OK?

2008-02-29 Thread Torsten Foertsch
On Fri 29 Feb 2008, Raymond Wan wrote: > It continues doing this, > "walking [up] the hierarchy", until it finds a match. Don't know what you mean by "up". AFAIK it walks in this order: / /var /var/www /var/www/a /var/www/a/b For me that would be "down", ;-) Torsten

Re: return DECLINED or OK?

2008-02-29 Thread J. Peng
On Fri, Feb 29, 2008 at 8:13 PM, Raymond Wan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Say you have a news site like: > > http://example.com/archive/news/2008/02/29/index.html > > A user might request that, but it wouldn't make sense to have 365 > "index.html"'s every year (ok, 366 this year :-) ). Instead,

Re: return DECLINED or OK?

2008-02-29 Thread Michael Peters
J. Peng wrote: > On Fri, Feb 29, 2008 at 8:13 PM, Raymond Wan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> Say you have a news site like: >> >> http://example.com/archive/news/2008/02/29/index.html >> >> A user might request that, but it wouldn't make sense to have 365 >> "index.html"'s every year (ok, 366 thi

Re: return DECLINED or OK?

2008-02-29 Thread J. Peng
On Fri, Feb 29, 2008 at 9:52 PM, Raymond Wan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I think you'll > pick it up in time and one starting point is to write some sample code > and try things out... > I have written lots of modperl codes actually,:) But I primarilly write with AccessHandler or ResponseHandle

Re: return DECLINED or OK?

2008-02-29 Thread Raymond Wan
J. Peng wrote: Do you mean mod_rewrite for the trick? yes with mod_rewrite people can rewrite: http://example.com/archive/news/2008/02/29/index.html to something like: http://example.com/archive/news?object=/2008/02/29/index.html so here /archive/news is filename and /2008/02/29/index.html is

RE: return DECLINED or OK?

2008-02-29 Thread Ronald Dai.
e net -Original Message- From: J. Peng [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, February 29, 2008 9:12 AM To: Raymond Wan Cc: modperl@perl.apache.org Subject: Re: return DECLINED or OK? On Fri, Feb 29, 2008 at 9:52 PM, Raymond Wan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I think you'll >

Re: return DECLINED or OK?

2008-02-29 Thread Colin Wetherbee
Ronald Dai. wrote: I learned what is RTFM here which is very interesting :)...I like the Ubuntu Forums policy though...but I always think reading is helpful to any developer...that's why I like both perl and java because I think they are very well documented generously somewhere within my reach

RE: return DECLINED or OK?

2008-02-29 Thread Ronald Dai.
Wetherbee [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, February 29, 2008 3:49 PM To: Ronald Dai. Cc: J. Peng; Raymond Wan; modperl@perl.apache.org Subject: Re: return DECLINED or OK? Ronald Dai. wrote: > I learned what is RTFM here which is very interesting :)...I like the > Ubuntu Forums policy

Re: return DECLINED or OK?

2008-02-29 Thread Colin Wetherbee
Ronald Dai. wrote: Actually RTFM would not be a problem for people from academic background (meaning MS or PHD educated) at all since they have to do it all the timebut for people with more team work background these days, it might not be politically very correct... I disagree. Granted, I

RE: return DECLINED or OK?

2008-02-29 Thread Ronald Dai.
erbee [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, February 29, 2008 4:04 PM To: Ronald Dai. Cc: modperl@perl.apache.org Subject: Re: return DECLINED or OK? Ronald Dai. wrote: > Actually RTFM would not be a problem for people from academic > background (meaning MS or PHD educated) at all since th

Re: return DECLINED or OK?

2008-02-29 Thread Scott Gifford
"J. Peng" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Fri, Feb 29, 2008 at 7:03 PM, Torsten Foertsch > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> >> Example continued: The entry /var/www/a/b exists on disk either as file or >> as >> directory but /var/www/a/b/c does not. Then after MapToStorage $r->filename >> is /va

Re: return DECLINED or OK? [off-topic]

2008-02-29 Thread Raymond Wan
Colin Wetherbee wrote: Ronald Dai. wrote: Actually RTFM would not be a problem for people from academic background (meaning MS or PHD educated) at all since they have to do it all the timebut for people with more team work background these days, it might not be politically very correct...

RE: return DECLINED or OK? [off-topic]

2008-03-01 Thread Ronald Dai.
perience without any MS or PHD... Thanks Ron From: Raymond Wan [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Fri 2/29/2008 9:36 PM To: Colin Wetherbee Cc: Ronald Dai.; modperl@perl.apache.org Subject: Re: return DECLINED or OK? [off-topic] Colin Wetherbee wrote: > Ronald Dai. wro