PerlSendHeader Off & socket persistence (was Re: question: using Apache for non-HTML messages)

2000-09-27 Thread B. Burke
When I set PerlSendHeader to Off in my perl.conf it doesn't send headers, which is good. The bad part is that it seems to break socket persistence for some reason. When I have PerlSendHeader set to On, I can open a socket with my test client, and make multiple queries on the same socket. Any id

Re: question: using Apache for non-HTML messages

2000-09-26 Thread Doug MacEachern
On Mon, 25 Sep 2000, B. Burke wrote: > I've been able to basically remove the response headers by removing the > functionality > of ap_sen_header_field() before compiling Apache, but it would be nice to you don't have to remove anything, just don't call $r->send_http_header and make sure PerlSe

Re: question: using Apache for non-HTML messages

2000-09-25 Thread David Alan Pisoni
Really all you need to do is send your response back like you would any response, just without the HTML formatting. If you wanted to be a bit more "correct", you could change the content-type of the respose so that it is not 'text/html'. (In your case, you might just make one up like 'applica

Re: question: using Apache for non-HTML messages

2000-09-25 Thread B. Burke
Here is an example of what I'm looking to do. GET /perl/app.pl?MODE=search&CITY=Dallas&STATE=TX&ID=195302 HTTP/1.0 Accept: text/html User-Agent: MyTestClient1.0 From: nowhere.com I want to replace the HTML request above with something like this: |MODE=search|CITY=Dallas|STATE=TX|ID=195302| I

Re: question: using Apache for non-HTML messages

2000-09-25 Thread Matt Sergeant
On Mon, 25 Sep 2000, B. Burke wrote: > > I'm using Apache/1.3.11 with mod_perl/1.22 on an AIX platform to serve > as an application server, with persistent ties into a MySQL database. > > My company is using an in-house socket API for data transfers. The > request messages in our API are somew

question: using Apache for non-HTML messages

2000-09-25 Thread B. Burke
I'm using Apache/1.3.11 with mod_perl/1.22 on an AIX platform to serve as an application server, with persistent ties into a MySQL database. My company is using an in-house socket API for data transfers. The request messages in our API are somewhat similiar to an HTML GET request, in that we us