Mag Gam wrote: > I am bit confused. While reading the mod_perl book, I noticed they are > using Apache::Request versus CGI for form data handling. Why is that? Is > it recommended to use Apache over CGI? Any advantages? I am using CGI > because its a standard module.
CGI.pm is old and venerable. But it has a lot of cruft (HTML generation, etc). Apache::Request is all about requesty things like GET/POST params, cookies, etc. It is therefore much, much smaller memory wise. It's also much faster. So why doesn't everyone use it? Well like you said, CGI is a standard Perl module. It's everywhere that Perl is. Apache::Request needs to installed separately. And for most applications the speed that A::R gives you won't really make that much difference. Parameter parsing is almost never a bottleneck in a real application. -- Michael Peters Developer Plus Three, LP
