I've seen this before and always thought to attribute it to mod_dir creating
a new request to properly map / to /index.html
since any notes set are for the lifetime of the request only, the new
request (representing /index.html) would/should have no notes...
this makes sense in my head, but my head is weird - I could be wrong...
HTH
--Geoff
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Roger Espel Llima [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> Sent: Wednesday, May 31, 2000 1:46 PM
> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: elusive, disappearing notes?
>
>
> I have a TransHandler that's setting a note with
> $r->notes("something",
> "something") the first time it runs.
>
> When I give it a directory ($r->uri is something like "/whatever/"),
> then Apache runs my TransHandler several times, where $r->uri
> looks like
> "/whatever/", then "/whatever/index.html".
>
> Now, the second time the TransHandler runs in the same
> request (with the
> /index.html that mod_dir added), it doesn't see the note that
> the first
> time left! I've double-checked the code, and made it dump the notes
> table to stderr, to no avail. The note just goes away.
>
> Question: is it supposed to do that? Is there a suggested workaround?
>
>
> Here's a simple test case of a TransHandler that shows this behavior:
>
> sub handler {
> my $r = shift;
> my $uri = $r->uri;
> my $notes = $r->notes;
>
> print STDERR "Notes init ($uri)!\n";
> foreach my $k (keys %$notes) {
> my $v = $notes->{$k};
> print STDERR "NOTE ($k) -> ($v)\n";
> }
> print STDERR "---------\n";
>
> $r->notes("hello", "world") unless $uri =~ /html/;
>
> print STDERR "Notes exit!\n";
> foreach my $k (keys %$notes) {
> my $v = $notes->{$k};
> print STDERR "NOTE ($k) -> ($v)\n";
> }
> print STDERR "---------\n";
>
> return DECLINED;
> }
>
> And the error_log of requesting / on this server:
>
> [Wed May 31 19:42:35 2000] [notice] Apache/1.3.12 (Unix)
> mod_perl/1.21 configure
> d -- resuming normal operations
> Notes init (/)!
> ---------
> Notes exit!
> NOTE (hello) -> (world)
> ---------
> Notes init (/)!
> ---------
> Notes exit!
> NOTE (hello) -> (world)
> ---------
> Notes init (/index.html)!
> ---------
> Notes exit!
> ---------
> Notes init (/index.html)!
> ---------
> Notes exit!
> ---------
>
> --
> Roger Espel Llima, [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> http://www.iagora.com/~espel/index.html
>
