A pointer to sample code on CPAN would be quite welcome here...
I would like to have a PerlHandler that may be assigned to several
different locations to initialize slightly differently based on the
location. In my case, this is an XML-RPC server, and I want the location to
be the means of controlling what procedures are published to clients. Thus,
when I have something like:
<Location /RPC>
SetHandler perl-script
PerlHandler Apache::RPC::Server
</Location>
...
<Location /PrivRPC>
(insert access control, etc.)
SetHandler perl-script
PerlHandler Apache::RPC::Server
</Location>
Now, I know that I can use PerlSetVar within these blocks (and will be, as
well), but what I am looking for, is whether there is a point in the
initialization phase where the Perl module Apache::RPC::Server can run an
init block for each of the <Location> or <Directory> blocks it appears in,
with sufficient context information for that block?
Essentially, there are some location-specific tasks that only need to occur
once. If I put in a test within the handler(), I can get the same effect.
But that means running the test on every request, which is redundant after
the first invocation.
Randy
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