If you have a concrete example of something that needs to query the state, then we can examine whether it should hook into the processing differently. I bet there is a different hook or approach that can avoid a query of the state.
I think where stas is headed are cases like ryan's mod_apachecon
http://rkbloom.net/rbb/mod_apachecon.c
which seems to be to be a valid example - you want to manipulate part of the HTTP request, such as the request line or incoming headers, and post-read is too late. but simply scaning input for GET .* HTTP/1.0 isn't sufficient, since it's not foolproof, so it would be nice to have something that signaled the start of a request.
Yes, that's exactly the case I'm talking about. Thanks Geoff.
__________________________________________________________________ Stas Bekman JAm_pH ------> Just Another mod_perl Hacker http://stason.org/ mod_perl Guide ---> http://perl.apache.org mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] http://use.perl.org http://apacheweek.com http://modperlbook.org http://apache.org http://ticketmaster.com
