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mod_perl digest
April 1, 2001 - April 7, 2001
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Recent happenings in the mod_perl world...
Features
o mod_perl status
o module announcements
o mailing list highlights
o links
mod_perl status
o mod_perl
- stable: 1.25 (released January 29, 2001) [1]
- development: 1.25_01-dev [2]
o Apache
- stable: 1.3.19 (released February 28, 2001) [3]
- development: 1.3.20-dev [4]
o Perl
- stable: 5.6 (released March 23, 2000) [5]
- development: 5.7 [6]
module announcements
o HTML::Mason 1.015 - allows web pages and sites to be constructed
from shared, reusable building blocks called components, which
contain a mix of Perl and HTML and can call each other and pass
values back and forth like subroutines [7]
o Apache::Filter 1.018 - Alter the output of previous handlers [8]
mailing list highlights
o mod_perl 2.0 now has a test suite [9]
o There may be a bug in $r->no_cache(0). It appears not to actually
remove Pragma and Cache-Control headers from the response [10]
o There was an interesting thread about how to get a browser to
'twiddle' while the server performs a long operation [11] [12]
o Here is some advice on getting HTML anchors to work with
redirects [13]
o Long thread of the week goes to talk of forking Sendmail versus
using Mail::Sendmail [14]
links
o The Apache/Perl Integration Project [15]
o mod_perl documentation [16]
o mod_perl modules on CPAN [17]
o mod_perl homepage [18]
o mod_perl news and advocacy [19]
o mod_perl list archives [20] [21]
happy mod_perling...
--Geoff
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[1] http://perl.apache.org/dist/
[2] http://perl.apache.org/from-cvs/modperl/
[3] http://www.apache.org/dist/
[4] http://dev.apache.org/from-cvs/apache-1.3/
[5] http://www.perl.com/pub/language/info/software.html#stable
[6] http://www.perl.com/pub/language/info/software.html#devel
[7] http://forum.swarthmore.edu/epigone/modperl/khyphangsweh
[8] http://forum.swarthmore.edu/epigone/modperl/jookhalbru
[9] http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=apache-modperl-dev&m=98643980117361&w=2
[10] http://forum.swarthmore.edu/epigone/modperl/vumspaclerd
[11] http://forum.swarthmore.edu/epigone/modperl/breldswungox
[12] http://forum.swarthmore.edu/epigone/modperl/prehkhalchul
[13] http://forum.swarthmore.edu/epigone/modperl/glixthangyix
[14] http://forum.swarthmore.edu/epigone/modperl/praxdwolflou
[15] http://perl.apache.org
[16] http://perl.apache.org/#docs
[17] http://www.cpan.org/modules/by-module/Apache/
[18] http://www.modperl.com
[19] http://www.take23.org
[20] http://forum.swarthmore.edu/epigone/modperl/
[21] http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=apache-modperl&r=1&w=2
