# The following was supposedly scribed by
# Smylers
# on Thursday 29 July 2004 01:56 am:
This allows you to access the documentation for all installed modules
and scripts via your browser ... if anybody knows of similar
scripts, I would like to hear about them.
Apache::Perldoc does this (though it requires mod_perl, not just a
CGI-enabled web server).
From reading the Apache::Perldoc source, it is exactly as the documentation
claims A simple mod_perl handler.
That's essentially what my perldoc was yesterday morning, before I added the
index generation, regex name-search and etc.
As Rich says in his documentation a lot of other people have been doing this
for ages. If this is the case, why is pod2html being run on a pipe via a
system command (hey, I do it to.) Seems that it needs to be properly
modularized, rather than the current do this front-end:
use Pod::Html;
pod2html @ARGV;
Then, maybe a cgi front-end and mod-perl front-end could share the same
features (and become secure?)
I still haven't figured out where the source to search.cpan.org is.
--Eric
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