The mod_perl Guide version 1.22 is out. Read it online at http://perl.apache.org/guide or grab the POD sources from CPAN: file: $CPAN/authors/id/S/ST/STAS/Apache-mod_perl_guide-1.22.tar.gz size: 423613 bytes md5: 05fe69c80269e561490ad41a72b6a412 Please allow up to six hours for your favorite mirror to get the new version. Changes: * intro: updated the long due credits section * snippets: new: "Authentication Snippets" (Michael Finke, Eric Cholet) * debug: new: "Apache::DumpHeaders" (Ask Bjoern Hansen) * debug: new: "Apache::DebugInfo" (Geoffrey Young) * config: updated: "PerlFreshRestart" with DSO notes (Doug, Vivek Khera) * troubleshooting: new: "Can't upgrade that kind of scalar ..." (Doug) * performance: new: "Bloatware" (Tom Christiansen) * performance: new: "CGI.pm versus Apache::Request" (Doug) * performance: new: "Apache::Registry versus pure PerlHandler" (Doug) * performance: new: "TMTOWTDI: Convenience and Performance" * install: "Is it possible to run mod_perl enabled Apache as suExec?" (Randal L. Schwartz, Matt Sergeant) * performance: updated: "Benchmarking PerlHandlers" * performance: new: "Keeping the Shared Memory Limit" * porting: new: "File tests operators" * performance: updated "PerlSetupEnv Off" with a test script * snippets: new: "Getting the Front-end Server's Name in the Back-end Server" (Sean Dague) * porting: extended "Taint mode" -- a suggestion for services that move to mod_perl and have part of the scripts that won't run under enabled Taint mode (Gunther Birznieks, Ken Williams) * modules: new: "Apache::OutputChain -- Chain Stacked Perl Handlers" (Honza Pazdziora, Eric Cholet) * snippets: new: "SSI and Embperl -- Doing Both" (Michael Schout) * performance: new: "-Dusemymalloc Perl Build Option" (Doug, Jeffrey W. Baker) * strategy: added unedited answer for the question "Multithreading or not Multithreading" (Shane [EMAIL PROTECTED]) * install: updated "Automating installation" (James G Smith) * performance: added a workaround for limiting memory usage under Linux to "Limiting the Resources Used by httpd Children" (Kevin Murphy) * debug: added clarification fd leakage in "Safe Resource Locking" (Bill Moseley) * multiuser: extended the scenario for multi-user/multi-webserver on one machine option, how to enforce port and similar settings without forbidding user to modify his httpd.conf. (inspired by Greg Cope) * scenario: new: "Caching in mod_proxy" (Ilya Obshadko) * porting: new: "Accessing Request Object in non-Perl*Handler Modules" (Doug) * config: new: "Adding Custom Configuration Directives" (Doug) * snippets: new: "Convert a POST Request into a GET Request" (Doug) * scenario: extended the "Getting the Remote Server IP in the Back-end server in the Proxy Setup" section with notes about the modules configuration precedence problem and its solution. (Ilya Obshadko, Ewan Edwards) * strategy: new "Pros and Cons of Building mod_perl as DSO" (based on http://www.apache.org/docs/dso.html by Ralf S. Engelschall) * strategy: new: "mod_perl and mod_ssl" (Tom Mornini, Vivek Khera, Mads Toftum) * snippets: added a "PerlTransHandler example" (Randal L. Schwartz, Ajay Shah) * config: extended examples for "<Perl> sections", added the package declaration caveat, Apache::ReadConfig namespace and more. * performance: extended the "Reducing the Number of stat() Calls" section, with examples of PerlTransHandler and reducing stat()s for .htaccess look-ups * help: added the perlmonth.com and Gerald Richter's article reference * porting: updated the "Right headers generation": OS with EBCDIC as character set and sending proper headers. (Doug) * porting: added: "Apache::print() and CORE::print()" (Doug) * debug: updated: Sys::Signal, SIGALRM and perl5.6 issue (Doug and Bill Moseley) * config: $Apache::Server::StrictPerlSections (Doug) * scenario: more practical mod_rewrite examples by Geoffrey Young. * minor corrections: download.pod by Ron Pool, scenario.pod by Terry West and Eric Cholet, config.pod by Richard More, performance.pod by Stephen Judd and Steve Reppucci, frequent.pod by Andreas Piesk. * review: Mark Summerfield has joined the group of the kind people who review and correct the Guide. He has reviewed these chapters: advocacy, config, control, databases, dbm, debug, download, frequent, hardware, help, install. * review: Ged W. Haywood was very kind to review and correct the debug chapter. Enjoy! ______________________________________________________________________ Stas Bekman | JAm_pH -- Just Another mod_perl Hacker http://stason.org/ | mod_perl Guide http://perl.apache.org/guide/ mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] | http://perl.org http://stason.org/TULARC/ http://singlesheaven.com| http://perlmonth.com http://sourcegarden.org ----------------------------------------------------------------------
