On Fri, 15 Oct 1999, Gerald Richter wrote:
> >
> > Anyway, it's kind of driven me a bit mad because I'm doigthis for
> > Extropia::Authentication (for pluggable auhentication modues on a CGI
> > level (not a mod_perl level). And there are a varity of ways to deal with
> > this as well. But one thing that has stood out in my rewrites is that I
> > prefer late binding in Perl to compile time when dealing with Sessions
> > because it allows the freedom to change the strategies in a setup file at
> > will instead of hunting for hardcoded use Sessin::File and new
> > Session::File()... type of stuff. It's better to say
> >
> > new Session(-TYPE => "File", ...params to file session)..
> >
>
> Because Embperl also needs "late-binding" (or at least I want to have it), I
> wrote a patch for Apache::Session to support it. I originaly integrated it
> in Apache::Session, but Jeff moved it away to Apache::Session::Embperl, also
> I think it's not only usefull for Embperl. Apache::Session::Embperl in
> Apache::Session 1.03 has some small errors, so I created Apache::Session
> 1.04, which can be found at ftp://ftp.dev.ecos.de/pub/perl/embperl/ and
> hopefully soon on CPAN. Maybe it's helpfull for you to take a look at it.
>
Oh! I just examined this. This is much nicer... The last time I was
looking at this v.99.7 was out that did not include this.