Maybe APR:: Core API?
http://perl.apache.org/docs/2.0/api/index.html
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Re: [Mason] Direct access to the request content
Hi Joe/Hans/MK.
Thanks for the suggestion of building my own server, but I strongly
disagree with the idea that HTTP/Apache/etc. is the wrong solution for me.
On the contrary, I'm building a site that will serve pages in an
XML-derived format, and that will require those pages to be constructed
on-the-fly from programmatic components mixing XML and (perl?) code in
some sort of template mechanism. Pages will contain references to assets
such as images that come in a variety of content types (some stored as
static files and some need to be generated on-the-fly), and will contain
links to other pages. I'll need facilities such as cookies, session
management, and a TLS-secured version of the protocol for certain pages.
And I'll need it all served up by a tried-and-tested server implementation
that is robust and can be scaled to cope with tens of millions of clients.
In other words, what I'm doing is *exactly* what HTTP, Apache, mod_perl &
Mason were designed for. None of those technologies care that my pages
aren't in HTML format, or even that for efficiency I want a handful of my
pages to receive unmodified serialised binary from my client platform as a
non-standard HTTP request body. It's still standard HTTP and if I designed
my own protocol instead it would have to look very much like HTTP.
Would anyone like to answer my original question, rather than questioning
my motives:
What's the best way to access the raw request body content from within a
Mason component?
Cheers, Jon.
-----Original Message-----
From: Joe Pepersack [mailto:j...@pepersack.net]
Sent: 20 January 2010 14:45
To: Jon Perkin
Cc: mason-users@lists.sourceforge.net
Subject: Re: [Mason] Direct access to the request content
The obvious question (to me) is if you're not making standard HTTP
requests and not serving HTML, why use Apache at all? You might be better
off writing your own custom server.
Refer to chapters 17 and 18 of the Perl Cookbook (especially example
17.5), as well as example 19.6 in chapter 19.
> Hi all.
>
> I'm working on a rather unusual web site in that the client software
isn't
> actually a web browser and doesn't understand HTML! I'm planning to use
> Mason on Apache2/mod_perl2, which I've used on other projects with great
> success.
>
> However, the client will be making requests to the server with
> non-standard request bodies, so I'd like to know what is the best way in
> Mason on mod_perl2 to access the raw content of the request. It isn't
> obvious to me from either Mason or mod_perl2 documentation.
>
> I'm currently using CGI.pm, but could change to using Apache2::Request
if
> needed.
>
> Cheers, Jon.
>
>
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