Michael Peters wrote:
Victor Danilchenko wrote:
Is there any way, to, uhhh, tell Apache programatically to simply
slurp up the file from an open filehandle
I could be wrong, but I doubt you can pass a Perl file handle to a C program
that is not Perl aware (like Apache).
I am hoping you are wrong, but I am not expecting it. To be honest, I
kinda figured that there would be no easy and perfect way around it.
or to grab a given file from
disk? Doing a redirect to the real location is less than ideal precisely
because that will open a door to the circumvention of this accounting
script, a door which will be rather hard to close.
What about an internal redirect? It won't expose where the door is and you can
make it such that access to that URL is forbidden to any request not coming from
your machine.
Huh, I didn't even realize this was possible. $r->internal-redirect,
eh? That sounds just like what I need -- coupled with some form of
hotlink protection, it should do the job. Thanks a lot.
But the best approach seems to convert your code into an Apache Authen or Authz
handler to do all the book keeping. Then simply let Apache continue with the
processing after that. You'd probably have to ditch Mason for that piece of the
code, but it's pretty straight forward.
If you are familiar with Apache internals, I am sure it is. i am not.
Unfortunately, this happens to be one of those "the roof is on fire"
deals -- I have to not only solve this problem, but solve it *fast*.
Many thanks for your immensely helpful advice. I think the internal
redirect is close enough to what I need to be useful. once again, thanks.
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Victor Danilchenko
Senior Software Engineer, AskOnline.net
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