Hey, The latest Apache::ASP, .17, has just arrived in your local CPAN mirror or http://www.perl.com/CPAN-local/modules/by-module/Apache/ Apache::ASP provides a perl scripting Active Server Pages environment, compatible with PerlScript on IIS/NT. For more information, go to http://www.nodeworks.com/asp/ This release runs significantly faster both on script startup and runtime execution. Copied below is the change log. -- Joshua _________________________________________________________________ Joshua Chamas Chamas Enterprises Inc. NodeWorks >> free web link monitoring Huntington Beach, CA USA http://www.nodeworks.com 1-714-625-4051 $MODULE=Apache::ASP; $VERSION = .17; $DATE="11/15/99"; + = improvement; - = bug fix ++20%+ faster startup script execution, as measured by the HelloWorld bench. I cut a lot of the fat out of the code, and is now at least 20% faster on startup both with and without state. On my dev (NT,apache 1.3.6+mod_perl) machine, I now get: 42 hits per sec on Apache::ASP HelloWorld bench 46 hits per sec on Embperl (1.2b10) and 51 hits per sec for CGI Apache::Registry scripts Before Apache::ASP was clocking some 31 hits per sec. Apache::ASP also went from 75 to 102 hits per second on Solaris. + PerlTaintCheck On friendly. This is mod_perl's way of providing -T taint checking. When Apache::ASP is used with state objects like $Session or $Application, MLDBM must also be made taint friendly with: $MLDBM::RemoveTaint = 1; which could be put in the global.asa. Documented. + Added $Response->ErrorDocument($error_code, $uri_or_string) API extension which allows for setting of Apache's error document at runtime. This is really just a wrapper for Apache->custom_response() renamed so it syncs with the Apache ErrorDocument config setting. Updated documentation, and added error_document.htm example. = OrderCollections setting was added, but then REMOVED because it was not going to be used. It bound $Request->* collections/hashes to Tie::IxHash, so that data in those collections would be read in the order the browser sent it, when eaching through or with keys. - global.asa will be reloaded when changed. This broke when I optimized the modification times with (stat($file))[9] rather than "use File::stat; stat($file)->mtime" - Make Apache::ASP->Loader() PerlRestartHandler safe, had some unstrict code that was doing the wrong thing. - IncludesDir config now works with DynamicIncludes. + DebugBufferLength feature added, giving control to how much buffered output get's shown when debugging errors. ++Tuning of $Response->Write(), which processes all static html internally, to be almost 50% faster for its typical use, when BufferingOn is enabled, and CgiHeaders are disabled, both being defaults. This can show significant speed improvements for tight loops that render ASP output. + Auto linking of ./site/eg/.* text to example scripts at web site. + $Application->GetSession($session_id) API extension, useful for managing active user sessions when storing session ids in $Application. Documented. - disable use of flock() on Win95/98 where it is unimplemented - @array context of $Request->Form('name') returns undef when value for 'name' is undefined. Put extra logic in there to make sure this happens.
