You may also want to try
unless(UNIVERSAL::can($r, 'filename')){
...
}
which also nicely avoids having to test $r first.
-jh
At 05:05 PM 1/25/01, Joshua Chamas wrote:
>Anyone see why a $r = Apache=SCALAR(0x8461790) might not
>respond true to $r->can('filename') on Ilya's below FreeBSD
>setup? The relevant ASP code is below.
>
>Ilya, worst case, you can tweak that code to make it
>work for you, for example does a line like
>
> unless($r && ($r =~ /^Apache/)) {
>
>work instead ? This might be a suitable test.
>
>--Josh
>
>sub handler {
> my($package, $r) = @_;
> my $status = 200;
>
> # allows it to be called as an object method
> ref $package and $r = $package;
>
> # rarely happens, but just in case
> unless($r && $r->can('filename')) {
> # this could happen with a bad filtering sequence
> warn(<<ERROR);
>No valid request object ($r) passed to ASP handler; if you are getting
>this error message, you likely have a broken DSO version of mod_perl
>which often occurs when using RedHat RPMs. One fix reported is to
>configure "PerlSendHeader On". Another fix is to compile
>statically the apache + mod_perl build as RedHat RPMs have been trouble.
>Please check FAQ or mod_perl archives for more information.
>ERROR
> ;
>
>Ilya Krel wrote:
> >
> > I am running Freebsd 4.2, Summary of my perl5 (5.0 patchlevel 5 subversion
> > 3), Apache/1.3.14, mod_perl/1.24 (from ports collection).
> > Apache:ASP installed from cpan says:
> > Bundle id = Bundle::Apache::ASP
> > CPAN_USERID CHAMAS (Joshua Chamas <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>)
> > CPAN_VERSION 1.00
> > CPAN_FILE C/CH/CHAMAS/Apache-ASP-2.07.tar.gz
> > MANPAGE Bundle::Apache::ASP - Install Apache::ASP and related
> > modules
> > CONTAINS MLDBM Data::Dumper MD5 CGI HTML::Clean Net::SMTP
> HTTP::Date
> > Devel::Symdump Apache::DBI Compress::Zlib Tie::Cache Time::HiRes
> Apache::ASP
> > INST_FILE /usr/local/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.005/Bundle/Apache/ASP.pm
> > INST_VERSION 1.00
> >
> > when i try to access the examples in site/eg I get thsi in error_log :
> > No valid request object (Apache=SCALAR(0x8461790)) passed to ASP
> handler; if
> > you are getting
> > this error message, you likely have a broken DSO version of mod_perl
> > which often occurs when using RedHat RPMs. One fix reported is to
> > configure "PerlSendHeader On". Another fix is to compile
> > statically the apache + mod_perl build as RedHat RPMs have been trouble.
> > Please check FAQ or mod_perl archives for more information.
> >
> > any suggestions how to fix it?
> >
> > thx
