[cgiapp] OT: Apache2

2004-11-18 Thread Sean Davis
Off-topic, but I am about to install an apache webserver on one of our machines as a development machine. To a person who does not do web development on a regular basis, but only on an as-needed basis, is there a reason to move to apache2? I know from recent discussions that

Re: [cgiapp] OT: Apache2

2004-11-18 Thread Sean Davis
On Nov 18, 2004, at 12:00 PM, Michael Peters wrote: Sean Davis wrote: Off-topic, but I am about to install an apache webserver on one of our machines as a development machine. To a person who does not do web development on a regular basis, but only on an as-needed basis, is there a reason to

Re: [cgiapp] CAP::Apache and CAP::Session

2004-11-18 Thread Michael Peters
Cees Hek wrote: On Tue, 16 Nov 2004 17:10:08 -0500, Jesse Erlbaum [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Performance benefits over Apache::Registry seem marginal when you consider the total request time (network transit, database access, etc.) OTOH, functionality takes a hit, as you are now seeing. Also, if

Re: [cgiapp] OT: Apache2

2004-11-18 Thread Christopher Hicks
On Thu, 18 Nov 2004, Rob Kinyon wrote: Personally, I'd stick w/Apache1 for now. I just came off a project where we decided to use AP2 and got bit by the fact that not all the MP1 methods are implemented in MP2, such as what's needed for Apache::SizeLimit. MP1 is battle-tested - I'd stick with it.

Re: [cgiapp] OT: Apache2

2004-11-18 Thread Sam Tregar
On Thu, 18 Nov 2004, Michael Peters wrote: As far as I know, vanilla cgi should work just fine under apache2. Mostly, yes. But some defaults are different, which can produce maddening results: http://use.perl.org/~samtregar/journal/11882 Now, that was more than a year ago, so maybe this is

RE: [cgiapp] CAP::Apache and CAP::Session

2004-11-18 Thread Jesse Erlbaum
Hi Michael -- + speed - yes I know that in some circumstances CGI doesn't perform that badly under mod_perl since it doesn't need to be loaded again. I also know that a web application typically has other bottle necks besides parameter parsing and cookie generation (like database

Re: [cgiapp] CAP::Apache and CAP::Session

2004-11-18 Thread Drew Taylor
On Thu, 18 Nov 2004 16:30:22 -0500, Jesse Erlbaum [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: And one more thing: If you develop in API space, you probably have to restart Apache every time you make a change. Wouldn't it be infinitely easier to be able to start Apache in a development mode which causes Minor