Need some help hijacking the page output pipe

[Mark S Lowe]

Title: Need some help hijacking the page output pipe

I have a need to create my own suffix and hijack the output for page rendering code, and then re-output the page with my own OK. I have the O’Reilly book “Practical mod_perl” and there is a great example of this on page 114 in Chapter 4. However, the example is incomplete. The example suggests that we can intercept the request for a page, remove all the HTML tags, and re-output the page. This isn’t exactly what I want to do, but it will server as a great architecture for my needs.

I’ve got my <Files> directive working perfectly in httpd.conf, but now I need some help intercepting the page request event, re-rendering the page, and then outputting it. I imagine this is like a three line explanation, but I can’t seem to find it anywhere. I imagine it something like this:

PerlModule MyPlatform::Converter
<Files ~ "\.(pla)$">
    SetHandler perl-script
    PerlHandler MyPlatform::HTML2TextConverter MyPlatform:: HTMLContentGenerator
</Files>

I just don’t know how to grab the HTML page text once it gets to my module. STDIN doesn’t have it. So where is it?

Suggestions?

Thanks!

Mark