On Wed, 10 Jan 2001, JR Mayberry wrote:
> While trying to do what the mod_perl guide reccomends as a performance
> increaser (not loading CGI.pm, and using mod_perl's functions as
> replacements for what CGI.pm does and doing PerlSetupEnv Off).. I
> realized that CGI.pm was being loaded even if I had no pre loaded
> modules..
>
> All I had setup was Apache::Status perl handler for a <Location>
>
> So, i looked at the code a little bit, and realized Apache::Status was
> loading CGI.pm.. it does a check to see if Apache::Request is loaded or
> can load and uses it if it can, and if it can't, it resorts to CGI.pm..
>
> The catch? There is no Apache::Request module..at least that I could
> find..in my 24 and 24_01 installs..
It's an external module. You can find it on CPAN.
> Instead, I replaced the require Apache::Request with Apache, and where
> it tried to get a handle, I made it Apache->request() and it seemed to
> work..
>
> Another thing I noticed... CGI::Cookie was loading CGI.pm for three
> functions, unescape, escape and another I didn't look at... in reality,
> unescape and escape reside in a module called CGI::Util, which CGI.pm
> uses (in newer versions of CGI.pm) .... wouldn't it be more efficient to
> load CGI::Util.pm which is 5k, instead of CGI.pm which is 205k in newer
> versions..?
I guess you could send the patch to the author of this module.
> Modifying all the above resulted in Apache::Status no longer saying
> CGI.pm was loaded..
>
> --
>
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