On Wed, Mar 10, 1999, Christian Buysschaert wrote:
> > While browsing through the mailinglist archives and rereading messages,
> > I've found a message which could solve one of the problems I've here...
> >
> > I'm using the ColdFusion Apache module and I couldn't access any CGI
> > variables mod_ssl had set, but if I used the ColdFusion CGI handler
> > everything worked as expected (variables were there). I saw a message
> > on mod_perl which talked about the same message and gave this as an
> > answer...
> >
> > "Writing an EAPI interface for mod_perl would be cool. Actually
> > with EAPI Doug also could solve the nasty "PERL_SSI doesn't work
> > under DSO" problem, because with EAPI mod_include could use mod_perl
> > even under the DSO situation. For getting the SSL_XXX variables
> > from mod_perl all you've to do is to write an XS function which
> > calls mod_ssl the same way mod_rewrite does it to resolve SSL
> > variables."
> >
> > So, getting the guys at Allaire to compile a EAPI module would
> > be the solution?
>
> Anybody, perhaps Ralf, could confirm this? I need a definitive yes
> to try to convince Allaire's support lines to compile a EAPI version...
I cannot confirm anything here, because as it looks to me the situation of
mod_perl I talked about above isn't the same as you described for ColdFusion.
The mod_perl problem is that the users script operated in an Apache API phase
which came _before_ the phase where mod_ssl creates the SSL_XXX environment
variables. But the variables are internally available a lot of time before
this, of course. So I suggested that with a little bit of code which calls
mod_ssl's variable lookup EAPI hook, the problem could be solved.
But your situation seems to be different. First I do not understand why
SSL_XXX variables shouldn't be available for your regular CGI scripts. Second
you say that with ColdFusions CGI handler everything works, so why do you want
that the Allaire people do anything when it already works?
Ralf S. Engelschall
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