Re: [heh] Larry Wall on CNBC

2000-12-15 Thread JoshNarins
It only took you a month to come up with that1 Someone give the man a cigar! Jimi "Hendrix" Thomspson, writes: Only from someone on AOL ;)

Gunther

2000-12-10 Thread JoshNarins
for someone who has done it many times before, then it is not trivial. -JoshNarins - To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: mod_perl training (was Re: Certification)

2000-12-08 Thread JoshNarins
In a message dated 12/8/00 10:48:13 AM Eastern Standard Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I can't figure out where the "start" and "finish" are with mod_perl that would make sense for 80 to 400 people. It's not core techology, like the llama. We target the llama as how you would want ANY

Re: [certification]

2000-12-07 Thread JoshNarins
developers busy adapting/adopting to hooks, filters, and whatever 5.6 threw at them, I'll suggest that Mod_Perl Certification might solve some problems, but I think it is important to cerify stable things. - -JoshNarins -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: PGPfreeware 6.5.8 for non-commercial

su - bin ./install.all

2000-12-06 Thread JoshNarins
don't know how basic. I don't know Expect. -JoshNarins - To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: RFC: mod_perl advocacy project resurrection

2000-12-05 Thread JoshNarins
It'd be nice if there was an equivalent of info's "h"... i.e., an "I've got Linux, what next?" track That might seriously encourage more hobbyists =+ more open source community (is there a way to indicate that the operator should be read backwards?)

Re: RSA_PKCS1_RSAref : That old question

2000-12-03 Thread JoshNarins
Thanks all. I hadn't properly considered what the combination of "RSA is now free" "openssl-0.9.5a is now openssl-0.9.6" meant. The consequences, no doubt, of spending a couple months programming for the Palm. Thanks again!

wwwmake rootmake install?

2000-11-25 Thread JoshNarins
Hello. I'm running planning to run an ssl,mod_perl enabled web server from my debian box. I've done all the steps so far as the unpriveleged user who will be owner of the child httpd processes. Should I su before I "make install" ? Thank you. -

Re: wwwmake rootmake install?

2000-11-25 Thread JoshNarins
Thanks Stas! [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: mod_perl is just like any other Perl module. You have to be root to be able to install the system side files (mostly .pm) unless you are doing some local installation, see: http://perl.apache.org/guide/install.html#Installation_Without_Superuser_P

[crazy idea?] Re:Templating System

2000-08-02 Thread JoshNarins
utilized nowadays. Any chance in heck that the format could be re-written into a HTML templater? -JoshNarins __END__ Afterthoughts... obviously, $- is no longer needed, which is great, since I always had to hack around it anyway. It needs to support loops It should support external template files

Re: Apache::ASP installation woes

2000-08-01 Thread JoshNarins
In a message dated 8/1/00 10:27:21 AM Eastern Daylight Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I would advice to use the CPAN installer, which will save you a lot of time, effort and worries. Ime Which is available simply by typing # perl -MCPAN -e shell

Re: Is there a module for getting / setting a Session-ID

2000-07-30 Thread JoshNarins
In a message dated 7/30/00 7:33:41 AM Eastern Daylight Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: And, on top of that, I have emilinated session hijacking (with a Back Button Breaking method). Can you enlighten me ? A security method that will redirect the user to a relogin page if, for

Re: Is there a module for getting / setting a Session-ID

2000-07-29 Thread JoshNarins
I have fully implemented URL munging and Cookie support, but SERIOUS troubles start to arise when you start adding the notion of secure sessions. I have done it, but it isn't pretty. Basically, there are three types of pages. Normal, Secure, and Secure (but you don't need a Secure Url Munging).

Re: Templating System

2000-07-28 Thread JoshNarins
I might as well pipe up. I very much enjoy using HTML::Mason. And people keep calling it inline perl, while it is really a hybrid inline/templating solution (i.e. %init blocks keeps much of the perl code separate, but in the same file. It would, however, be nice to combine the best features of

Re: The Template Toolkit (Re: Templating Systems)

2000-07-28 Thread JoshNarins
Oh, and can I relate a brief success story I had with Mason? I am going to support frames on my site for trans-oceanic surfers who appreciate everything I can do to limit download times. With Mason, the whole thing was done with a shadow directory, 2 autohandlers and three frameset files. It is

Re: ScriptAlias hacking?

2000-07-27 Thread JoshNarins
("/","",@new_path)); return DECLINED; } Have a happy, -JoshNarins PS How many people out there have one email address? :)

Re: Templating System

2000-07-27 Thread JoshNarins
cells are going to get the red (assuming you aren't using Netscape's broken CSS). But how could you force one cell to get the yellow? The normal way to do it would be TD ID="oneTD" but you have already used up your ID tag. Tell me if I am missing something. -JoshNarins

Fwd: Templating System

2000-07-27 Thread JoshNarins
mple cases. It's just simply bad style to name a fake attribute the same as a preexisting real attribute. And sometimes the tag already has a CLASS and the person is using ID to override some aspects of the CLASS. That's what it is there for. -JoshNarins PS The thing I thought I might be missing

Fwd: Templating System

2000-07-27 Thread JoshNarins
idn't know. Netscape on Linux doesn't support it, either. But thanks for the heads up. -JoshNarins

Re: mod_eprl or PHP

2000-07-26 Thread JoshNarins
The great thing about mod_perl is that you can, with just a little training in some common traps (global variables), turn a perl programmer into a mod_perl programmer. To turn someone into a PHP programmer you have to teach them the perl-like PHP syntax. PHP is popular. If you are drowning in

Re: Unexpected pnotes() behavior

2000-07-24 Thread JoshNarins
I think you've made a closure... my $subref; { my $a = "hi!" $subref = sub { print "$a\n" }; $a = "huh?"; } $subref; #prints "huh?" Is $r-pnotes really making a subref? I'm only starting to get familiar with Apache.xs but I can tell that notes is implemented directly on top of an

Re: YAM (Yet Another Module) - an IPC shared cache thing - anyone interested...

2000-07-22 Thread JoshNarins
if StatINC would even need any rework if you are willing to "require" the Templates. Best of luck, -JoshNarins -- - I never knew the point of Linux. I was a UNIX sys admin. I mean

Re: [newbie] Location question

2000-07-13 Thread JoshNarins
is going on. $r-log_error("NavBar.pm : The content_type requested is ",$r-content_type); Place this right *before* the "|| return DECLINED" line. -JoshNarins (PS I'm no expert, just trying to field a question)

Re: Best book

2000-07-11 Thread JoshNarins
The Eagle Book, "Writing Apache Modules in Perl and C" by Lincoln Stein (CGI.pm author) and Doug MacEachern (someone who despite his mere humanity, wrote mod_perl) Published by O'Reilly ISBN 1-565592-567-X The X is for Xtra good mod_perl book. :)

Totally trivial patch

2000-07-10 Thread JoshNarins
Hi Doug, I was trying to figure out how to hide part of the URL of an $r-custom_response from the user and I found this... It's real trivial, does that matter? I assume that if (*string == '/') then of course (*string != '"'). I am also assuming that || and work the same in .xs as they

Persistent UNIX Sockets like DBI?

2000-07-01 Thread JoshNarins
Hello, I've been looking around for a module that will set up a persistent connection to either a AF_UNIX socket or a fifo. I think I can get away with using either technique because I understand that writes on these devices are atomic if the data is less than some small number of K. (where K =

Pinning down panic: POPSTACK

2000-06-28 Thread JoshNarins
The modperl archives are pretty clear that panic: POPSTACK errors caused by dies called in a eval is a perl bug. The archives are also clear that this is often a result of an interaction with Apache::Session, which I *was* getting, but have since fixed(?) My new problem is that I am getting

Apache::Session and pnotes (again)

2000-06-16 Thread JoshNarins
1 Apache::Session 1.24 mod_perl 1.3.12 Apache 0.87 HTML::Mason 5.00503 Perl -JoshNarins

Re: Apache::Session

2000-06-01 Thread JoshNarins
In a message dated 6/1/2000 10:59:48 AM Eastern Daylight Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Now, I am successfully able to run the script and generate sessionID and store that sessionID in MySQL database table.. But column 'a_session' is always empty!! Following is my code.. When I ran this

Re: Sending multiple cookies per request

2000-05-26 Thread JoshNarins
From the man pages of Apache $r-headers_out-add('Set-Cookie',$cookie); :)

Re: High-volume mod_perl based ecommerce sites?

2000-05-25 Thread JoshNarins
The United Nation's IMIS Project definitely exceeded 100,000 lines of Perl. If you throw in all the utilites and admin stuff, the total probably tops 200,000. The design was decent enough that it was rare that any particular module was completlely overhauled or found to be unncessary. IMIS

[newbie] Passing Session Object Twixt Handlers

2000-05-22 Thread JoshNarins
Am I correct in assuming that my tied session variable (using Apache::Session::DBI), which I have stored away in a pnote, is no longer tied when I try to retrieve it in a later handler? Is there a way to keep the same tied %session between handlers? I remember someone talking about passing

Re: [newbie] Passing Session Object Twixt Handlers

2000-05-22 Thread JoshNarins
At a later hour on 22/05/2000, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: At 09:03 22/05/2000 -0400, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Am I correct in assuming that my tied session variable (using Apache::Session::DBI), which I have stored away in a pnote, is no longer tied when I try to retrieve it in a later handler? I

Determining TARGET frame

2000-05-09 Thread JoshNarins
I'm working on my own site with mod_perl and mason. I want cookie exchange ONLY with one particular frame. I *could* simply just maintain a list of pages that might validly be in the paricular frame, but I'd prefer something like... Is there any method for the Apache::Request object or it's

Re: Installing mod_perl when other things are required, too.

2000-04-23 Thread JoshNarins
If you get the CVS version of mod_perl it has a INSTALL.simple.ssl file. If you pick up mod_ssl from Engelschall's site it comes with the same INSTALL.ssl file. Both files (which are identical) have build instructions for what you need near the bottom. However, just as a note, they aren't as

Re: httpd could not be started

2000-04-22 Thread JoshNarins
Addenda: apachectl configtest shows everything is ok

Re: httpd could not be started

2000-04-22 Thread JoshNarins
It's a much simpler problem than I let on to before... (thanks matt@telepath) The error log shows what went wrong, but I am at a bit of a loss on how to correct it. [info] mod_unique_id: using ip addr my.valid.ip.address getpeername: Socket operation on non-socket getsockname: Socket operation

[newbie] diffs and cvs

2000-04-09 Thread JoshNarins
I'll probably never be applying a lot of the diffs I see here, but I have to wonder, what are they made for? They only thing I know is they aren't made by diff for ed. Oh, and is there a place in the Guide for "getting the latest release from CVS," as is often recommended to mod_ers with

Re: Sharing memory between Apache processes

2000-04-04 Thread JoshNarins
It seems as this has the effect that each server process keeps its own copy of the templates. I would like to avoid this by using some sort of shared memory between the server processes. Does any of you have any experience in this field (or even better examples of how to do it)? A good

Re: [RFC] holding a mod_perl conference

2000-03-31 Thread JoshNarins
Someone had wondered about a name for the conference, and a way to keep it mod_perly... ...mod_conference... mod_* PerlMumbleHandler certain apache/mod_perl friendly 'dules (Mason,Em?b?perl,Apache::DBI) if someone is interested the MySQL, CVS, vi and emacs talks

Re: possible bug: mod_perl 1.22 (Perl 5.6 / Apache 1.3.12)

2000-03-29 Thread JoshNarins
Support for strings represented as a vector of ordinals Literals of the form Cv1.2.3.4 are now parsed as a string composed of characters with the specified ordinals. This is an alternative, more readable way to construct (possibly unicode) strings instead of interpolating characters, as in

Re: module/sandwich kills otherwise nice make test

2000-02-05 Thread JoshNarins
Per Your Request (Thanks again Vivek): According to -MCPAN -e shell I *am* using the most current Apache::Sandwich. For those of us who have just tuned in, I am installing mod_perl1.21 on redhat6.1 apache1.3.9 and generally using the CPAN shell and have installed just the basics (MD5,

module/sandwich kills otherwise nice make test

2000-02-04 Thread JoshNarins
Hello, I searched the mod_perl archive and couldn't find any instances where module/sandwich (which I don't need or want) was the one test which failed in the installation of mod_perl. I have tried with EVERYTHING=1, all of the major stuff except SSI, and with no directives to perl Makefile.PL