Mark Torrance mark-at-vinq.com |mason mailing list| wrote:
> I see; you want the cgi program to be executed on the server to render
> that content. You're right -- there's no simple way in Mason to ask
> apache to serve + process that file.
>
> I see 2 possible solutions. If the cgi program is written in Perl,
> and you don't mind "porting" it to run under Mason, you could take the
> guts of it and put them in the %init section of a new Mason component,
> and then just call that component. This is the most "masonesque"
> choice, and probably the one I would choose unless there was a real
> issue of maintaining the legacy cgi-bin version for some reason.
>
I was considering that, at least eventually. But I don't even know how
the script "flows" now, where the parameters are coming from and what
the state is, etc. It relies on CGI.pm taking care of $config and I
don't even know what's supposed to be in it. The Apache log doesn't
show the contents of the POST body, and I'm not expert in that type of
development.
> If on the other hand you really just want to call the cgi program
> through the web server, as if you were an end-user client, and then
> incorporate the results into your page, you could write a component
> like this:
>
> <%init>
> use LWP::Simple;
> my $content = get("http://localhost/cgi-bin/mything";);
> </%init>
> <% $content %>
>
Thanks for showing me the details. That ought to work as a work-around,
and also to encapsulate the component to isolate further work on it.
But I'm wondering if the layers that Mason is built on -- some Perl
Apache modules and ModPerl and an installed "Handler" -- has a call that
will do a "get" more directly. Can someone here point me in that
direction? Learning the whole lower-level systems in detail is not part
of the Q&D side project.
BTW, what I'm doing is using Dan Ragle's "Simple Comments"
(<http://www.webreference.com/programming/perl/comments/index.html>).
If you knew of something better and more Mason-ready...?
After I get his stuff working as-is, I want to play around with making
the main page cache correctly, and serve the changing comment info
separatly somehow. Mason is good at controlling the caching.
--John
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