On Tue, 23 Mar 2004 11:47:01 -0500, Jamie LeTual wrote: > This won't help if the database is running on a different machine. If > the apache and mysql are on the same machine, this will work although > there are security concerns regarding this.
Good points. I can live with the limitations for the application where the packet size issue bit me (it's a cache of search results, so I'm cleaning out the database every half-hour or so anyway; and it's on a dedicated machine) -- but I can see that it's not good advice for just any application. Cheers, Andrew. -- :: article seven Andrew Green automatic internet [EMAIL PROTECTED] | www.article7.co.uk -- Report problems: http://perl.apache.org/bugs/ Mail list info: http://perl.apache.org/maillist/modperl.html List etiquette: http://perl.apache.org/maillist/email-etiquette.html