This appears to be the classic "global variable/uninitialized variable" issue with your script. Mod_perl will load that script once and never reload it again unless you tell it too, even when different users access that script. If you have written a CGI script that doesn't lead itself to a ready rewrite to run under mod_perl, try running it under the "PerlRun" mode of mod_perl, it works great for this situation.
Go here to read up on the issue: http://perl.apache.org/docs/1.0/guide/porting.html#Sometimes_it_Works__Sometimes_it_Doesn_t dale ----- Original Message ----- From: "David Ressman" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Thursday, May 29, 2003 1:19 PM Subject: mod_perl caching form data? > Hi all, > > I'm having a problem with mod_perl 1.2.7 that's baffling me completely, > and I've been searching and reading for days, but I still can't figure > it out. My apologies if this comes up frequently. I did try rather > lengthy searches through the mailing list archives. > > Right now, I'm using mod_perl 1.2.7 compiled into an apache 1.3.27 > server running on a Solaris 9 (semi-current patches, though I can't > imagine that that's relevant) server. I've written some fairly > straight-forward mod_perl scripts (using CGI.pm). They take form > data from the user, process it, and stick it in a database (through > DBI). > > So far, so good. Everything works pretty well... Except that > something's caching previously entered form data and displaying it back > to me as the default values in those same forms. As an example, this > form has a text field that asks for IP addresses, and the text input > will occasionally be filled out with the IP address of a system that > you had entered a few minutes ago. > > Naturally, I suspected that my browser was the guilty party, even > though I had specified '-1d' as the expiration time in the CGI header() > command. It turns out that this is not the case. The forms will > occasionally be pre-filled out with IP addresses that other people have > given! I even went so far as to set up a network sniffer to verify > that the server was indeed setting (in the HTML it sent to the client) > the "value" parameter of the text fields to an IP address that another > user had previously entered. > > Needless to say, my script is *not* setting the "default" or "value" > parameters for these text fields. As an uneducated guess, I'd say that > each httpd child-process is automatically filling out forms with data > that it itself has previously received, but that's only a guess, and it > still doesn't get me any closer to figuring out why it's happening. > > Can anyone offer any assistance or point me somewhere that I could find > some documentation on what's happening? I'm completely baffled. > > Thanks! > > David
