On Tue, Jun 16, 2009 at 12:26 PM, Jeff MacDonald <[email protected]>wrote:
> If anyone can point me in a direction that would be helpful. >>> >> >> You almost certainly are carrying data over from one request to the >> next, and with multiple processes running the one that services >> request number N+1 might not be the same one that served request >> number N, so you might not have the data that you expect. >> >> The challenge of being neat and clean between requests exists for both >> mod_perl and fastcgi. It's touched on briefly here: >> >> http://cgi-app.org/index.cgi?SitePerformance >> >> and if you search the site (from the search box on the front page) for >> fastcgi and/or mod_perl, you'll see a couple of more references. >> >> From the Notes secition of the CGI::Application::FastCGI man page: >>> >> >> Note that cgiapp_init() will be called only once under lifecycle of >> FastCGI. setup() will also only be called once. (you should not be >> doing magical things in 'setup'.) So if you want to do something >> for every REQUESTS, you should write the logic in cgiapp_prerun(). >> >> > > I ended up going with the ModPerl::Registry route. So far it seems to be > working quite well. > > Now, I just have to figure out how to print an alternative Header type , so > my cgi can spit out PDF and excel files at users. :) > > Thanks folks. Your direction helped. > If you are using mod_perl it's really easy if you set up a CGI::Application::Dispatch and then set up apache like this: <Perl> use lib 'path/to/lib'; </Perl> <Location /acdri> SetHandler perl-script PerlHandler ACD::Dispatch </Location> Then you should be able to set headers the regular cgiapp way. -- fREW Schmidt http://blog.afoolishmanifesto.com ##### CGI::Application community mailing list ################ ## ## ## To unsubscribe, or change your message delivery options, ## ## visit: http://www.erlbaum.net/mailman/listinfo/cgiapp ## ## ## ## Web archive: http://www.erlbaum.net/pipermail/cgiapp/ ## ## Wiki: http://cgiapp.erlbaum.net/ ## ## ## ################################################################
