Foo JH schrieb:
Michael Ludwig wrote:
I'd like to reach an understanding of what these ranges of modules
and interfaces are intended for. When would I want to use which
interface? Or is it all a matter of style and taste?
Possibly. You will need the standard modperl2 library to even get
modperl up and running. I would recommend installing libapreq2 as
well, as it exposes more functionalities that you will very likely use
(especially if you're used to CGI).
Or mod_perl 1.0, for that matter. Thanks for your answer, it clarifies
things a bit for me, as does this thread:
How to extract name/value pairs from the query string? | ModPerl
http://www.gossamer-threads.com/lists/modperl/modperl/98100
Turns out either the CGI module or libapreq2 is necessary for parsing
the query string. I was expecting that functionality in one of
Apache2::RequestRec, or Apache2::RequestUtil, or maybe just Apache2
(which doesn't exist).
It is said in the thread referred to above that "the splitting of the
APIs [...] is strange and confusing", and coming from mod_perl 1.0, I
agree. But it probably has advantages as well.
Michael Ludwig
