Re: [Catalyst] Authorization header and fastcgi
Mark.
I was not looking at $c-engine-env, but now that I am, there is no
Authorization or HTTP_AUTHORIZATION there either.
I have decided to side-step this issue and create an 'Authentication'
header rather than an 'Authorization' header and to hell with the
'standard'.
(Besides the 'standard' is badly named anyway!)
Thanks everyone for help with this matter.
Regards
Ian
Mark Trostler wrote:
are you looking in $c-engine-env?
Mark
Ian Docherty wrote:
Matt Pitts wrote:
-Original Message-
From: Ian Docherty [mailto:catal...@iandocherty.com]
Sent: Tuesday, February 17, 2009 9:51 AM
To: The elegant MVC web framework
Subject: [Catalyst] Authorization header and fastcgi
Hi
The 'Authorization' header is not being passed to my Catalyst
application.
I have read the archives about fastcgi not passing the header and I
have
tried the following in my Apache 2 config
RewriteCond %{HTTP:Authorization} ^(.+)
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ $1 [E=HTTP_AUTHORIZATION:%1,PT]
FastCgiIpcDir /var/fcgi_ipc
FastCgiServer
/var/www/www.pharmaventures.com/script/pharmaventures_fastcgi.pl
-pass-header HTTP_AUTHORIZATION -pass-header Authorization -processes
5
-initial-env PV_DEBUG=0 -initial-env PV_HBX=1 -initial-env
PV_DSN=dbi:mysql:port=3306:host=127.0.0.1
I don't see a header and I don't see any environment variable in my
Cat
app.
I have tried variations on the -pass-header Authorization -pass-header
AUTHORIZATION but neither works.
Any other ideas?
The following is working for me in Apache 2.2 with
FastCgiExternalServer
and Cat 5.8014
RewriteEngine On
RewriteCond %{HTTP:Authorization} ^(.+)
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ $1 [E=HTTP_AUTHORIZATION:%1,PT]
Without any special declarations on my FastCgiExternalServer directive.
Could it be something specific to running the FastCGI internal vs.
external?
Did you forget to turn RewriteEngine On?
v/r
-matt pitts
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'RewriteEngine On' was there, it makes no difference.
I too am on Cat 5.7014
I will experiment with changing between FastCGI static and dynamic
mode to see if that makes any difference.
Regards
Ian
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Re: [Catalyst] RFC: New to Catalyst questions
On 20/02/2009, at 8:49 PM, Octavian Rasnita wrote: From: Dan Dascalescu ddascalescu+catal...@gmail.com Regarding wiki questions: The Catalyst wiki runs on MojoMojo (http://mojomojo.org), Too bad that it doesn't run under Windows. Why not? I can't think of any practical reason why it wouldn't. ___ List: Catalyst@lists.scsys.co.uk Listinfo: http://lists.scsys.co.uk/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/catalyst Searchable archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/catalyst@lists.scsys.co.uk/ Dev site: http://dev.catalyst.perl.org/
Re: [Catalyst] RFC: New to Catalyst questions
From: Kieren Diment kie...@diment.org On 20/02/2009, at 8:49 PM, Octavian Rasnita wrote: From: Dan Dascalescu ddascalescu+catal...@gmail.com Regarding wiki questions: The Catalyst wiki runs on MojoMojo (http://mojomojo.org), Too bad that it doesn't run under Windows. Why not? I can't think of any practical reason why it wouldn't. First I was not able to install File::NFSLock with cpan, but I found a ppm distribution for it. But I've seen that after doing this, more other cpan modules couldn't be installed, and one of them is Cache::FastMmap which I know that it can't be installed under Windows. Octavian ___ List: Catalyst@lists.scsys.co.uk Listinfo: http://lists.scsys.co.uk/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/catalyst Searchable archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/catalyst@lists.scsys.co.uk/ Dev site: http://dev.catalyst.perl.org/
Re: [Catalyst] RFC: New to Catalyst questions
First I was not able to install File::NFSLock with cpan, but I found a ppm distribution for it. But I've seen that after doing this, more other cpan modules couldn't be installed, and one of them is Cache::FastMmap which I know that it can't be installed under Windows. I switched Cache::FastMmap for Cache::FileCache (in MojoMojo.pm) which seems to work fine, but I haven't run a full test suite or used in production. I didn't have a problem with File::NFSLock compiling with the latest Strawberry version. -rodrigo ___ List: Catalyst@lists.scsys.co.uk Listinfo: http://lists.scsys.co.uk/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/catalyst Searchable archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/catalyst@lists.scsys.co.uk/ Dev site: http://dev.catalyst.perl.org/
Re: [Catalyst] RFC: New to Catalyst questions
On Fri, Feb 20, 2009 at 8:21 AM, Dan Dascalescu ddascalescu+catal...@gmail.com ddascalescu%2bcatal...@gmail.com wrote: Rodrigo, MojoMojo now supports custom styles. A different theme can be seen at http://nordaaker.no/wiki/. We think the typography needs improvement, and a Mediawiki-like theme would be very good to have. I know. I brute-forced the main catalystframework.org css into a MojoMojo theme to see how it would look. I'm not a web-designer, so don't expect wonders... You can see it here: http://rodrigolive.googlepages.com/catmojo.jpg Is the Catalyst Wiki code in the svn repository or backed-up somewhere? I think it would be good to have a development version (with the current content snapshot) so I can work on a makeover. ___ List: Catalyst@lists.scsys.co.uk Listinfo: http://lists.scsys.co.uk/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/catalyst Searchable archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/catalyst@lists.scsys.co.uk/ Dev site: http://dev.catalyst.perl.org/
Re: [Catalyst] Templating languages (was RFC: The paradox of choice in web development)
2009/2/19 Byron Young byron.yo...@riverbed.com: Jonathan Rockway wrote on 2009-02-19: * On Wed, Feb 18 2009, Dermot wrote: Yes there is, at first glance, a lot of choice but is there. I would say TT and Mason are the only realistic choices (for HTML). If by realistic you mean unmaintainable for both designers and developers, then yes, you've described Mason and TT. The only qualities that Mason and TT have over other options is that they have been around for a while. Jonathan, Can I ask - what are the limitations with Mason (and TT) in your opinion? I have been using it as the templating language for my Cat app (seemed better than TT because I could exclude having to learn a new language for the templates - I can just keep writing perl code). TT is perl. It's not a different language. It's a bit of a learning curve. It provides familiar methods* like keys, splice, exists and substr. I *_* TT Dp. * http://template-toolkit.org/docs/manual/VMethods.html ___ List: Catalyst@lists.scsys.co.uk Listinfo: http://lists.scsys.co.uk/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/catalyst Searchable archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/catalyst@lists.scsys.co.uk/ Dev site: http://dev.catalyst.perl.org/
Re: [Catalyst] RFC: New to Catalyst questions
http://rodrigolive.googlepages.com/catmojo.jpg Wow, quite neat, really. I didn't have a problem with File::NFSLock compiling with the latest Strawberry version. I did, and I'm not the only one: http://rt.cpan.org/Public/Bug/Display.html?id=40185 PS: Cache::Memory is a bogus dependency. I just removed it. ___ List: Catalyst@lists.scsys.co.uk Listinfo: http://lists.scsys.co.uk/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/catalyst Searchable archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/catalyst@lists.scsys.co.uk/ Dev site: http://dev.catalyst.perl.org/
[Catalyst] Re: Templating languages (was RFC: The paradox of choice in web development)
* Dermot paik...@googlemail.com [2009-02-20 12:15]: TT is perl. It's not a different language. You’re joking, right? It provides familiar methods* like keys, splice, exists and substr. By that argument, Javascript is Perl. Regards, -- Aristotle Pagaltzis // http://plasmasturm.org/ ___ List: Catalyst@lists.scsys.co.uk Listinfo: http://lists.scsys.co.uk/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/catalyst Searchable archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/catalyst@lists.scsys.co.uk/ Dev site: http://dev.catalyst.perl.org/
Re: [Catalyst] RFC: New to Catalyst questions
On Fri, Feb 20, 2009 at 11:32 AM, Rodrigo rodrigol...@gmail.com wrote: On Fri, Feb 20, 2009 at 8:21 AM, Dan Dascalescu ddascalescu+catal...@gmail.com ddascalescu%2bcatal...@gmail.com wrote: Rodrigo, MojoMojo now supports custom styles. A different theme can be seen at http://nordaaker.no/wiki/. We think the typography needs improvement, and a Mediawiki-like theme would be very good to have. I know. I brute-forced the main catalystframework.org css into a MojoMojo theme to see how it would look. I'm not a web-designer, so don't expect wonders... You can see it here: http://rodrigolive.googlepages.com/catmojo.jpg Is the Catalyst Wiki code in the svn repository or backed-up somewhere? I think it would be good to have a development version (with the current content snapshot) so I can work on a makeover. Looks nice. MojoMojo is hosted in git. You can check it out from http://github.com/marcusramberg/mojomojo/tree/master. There is a sql snapshot with the user passwords stripped out at http://dev.thefeed.no/stuff/wiki_dump.sql.gz . We are quite interested in getting a catalyst theme for mojomojo. With regards Marcus Ramberg ___ List: Catalyst@lists.scsys.co.uk Listinfo: http://lists.scsys.co.uk/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/catalyst Searchable archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/catalyst@lists.scsys.co.uk/ Dev site: http://dev.catalyst.perl.org/
Re: [Catalyst] Re: Templating languages (was RFC: The paradox of choice in web development)
2009/2/20 Aristotle Pagaltzis pagalt...@gmx.de: * Dermot paik...@googlemail.com [2009-02-20 12:15]: TT is perl. It's not a different language. You're joking, right? narff. Perhaps written in Perl. It provides familiar methods* like keys, splice, exists and substr. By that argument, Javascript is Perl. The point is the are familiar functions. There isn't nothing new in it. Dp. ___ List: Catalyst@lists.scsys.co.uk Listinfo: http://lists.scsys.co.uk/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/catalyst Searchable archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/catalyst@lists.scsys.co.uk/ Dev site: http://dev.catalyst.perl.org/
Re: [Catalyst] RFC: New to Catalyst questions
From: Rodrigo rodrigol...@gmail.com First I was not able to install File::NFSLock with cpan, but I found a ppm distribution for it. But I've seen that after doing this, more other cpan modules couldn't be installed, and one of them is Cache::FastMmap which I know that it can't be installed under Windows. I switched Cache::FastMmap for Cache::FileCache (in MojoMojo.pm) which seems to work fine, but I haven't run a full test suite or used in production. I didn't have a problem with File::NFSLock compiling with the latest Strawberry version. -rodrigo I've just tried to do the same thing using ActivePerl, but without success. Cache::memory can't be installed with cpan, and I also couldn't find a ppm distribution for it. I don't know if Strawberry can be used with Active State's Perl Developer Kit and I think it might appear some conflicts if I would have 2 perl distributions installed in the same time... Octavian ___ List: Catalyst@lists.scsys.co.uk Listinfo: http://lists.scsys.co.uk/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/catalyst Searchable archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/catalyst@lists.scsys.co.uk/ Dev site: http://dev.catalyst.perl.org/
Re: [Catalyst] RFC: New to Catalyst questions
From: Dan Dascalescu ddascalescu+catal...@gmail.com I didn't have a problem with File::NFSLock compiling with the latest Strawberry version. I did, and I'm not the only one: http://rt.cpan.org/Public/Bug/Display.html?id=40185 PS: Cache::Memory is a bogus dependency. I just removed it. I have also removed it, but I found that I can't install DBIx::Class::EncodedColumn with cpan, and there is no ppm distribution for it. Octavian ___ List: Catalyst@lists.scsys.co.uk Listinfo: http://lists.scsys.co.uk/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/catalyst Searchable archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/catalyst@lists.scsys.co.uk/ Dev site: http://dev.catalyst.perl.org/
Re: [Catalyst] RFC: New to Catalyst questions
I have also removed it, but I found that I can't install DBIx::Class::EncodedColumn with cpan, and there is no ppm distribution for it. Octavian Wow. I haven't had a problem with that either, in at least 5 different XP machines. Are you running Vista? What's the error? I'm using the October 2008 versions, so I've just downloaded Jan 2009 Strawberry 5.10.0.4, installed it to c:\strawberry, ran cpan, then notest install DBIx::Class::EncodedColumn and it installed it ok. On the other hand, DBIx::Class didn't due to SQLite issues, but EncodedColumn didn't seem to care. Obviously that would need some testing, but as far as installation goes, it seems to be fine. ___ List: Catalyst@lists.scsys.co.uk Listinfo: http://lists.scsys.co.uk/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/catalyst Searchable archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/catalyst@lists.scsys.co.uk/ Dev site: http://dev.catalyst.perl.org/
Re: [Catalyst] RFC: New to Catalyst questions
From: Rodrigo I have also removed it, but I found that I can't install DBIx::Class::EncodedColumn with cpan, and there is no ppm distribution for it. Wow. I haven't had a problem with that either, in at least 5 different XP machines. Are you running Vista? What's the error? I run Win XP Pro SP3. The error is below. I think the relevant error is: t/02digest1/32 Can't call method keysize on an undefined value at E:/perl510/site/lib/Crypt/OpenPGP.pm line 525. I have tried a: cpan install Crypt::OpenPGP But I received the message that this module is up to date. I use ActivePerl 5.10.0 build 1004. The full output is: CPAN.pm: Going to build G/GR/GRODITI/DBIx-Class-EncodedColumn-0.2.tar.gz Cannot determine perl version info from lib/DBIx/Class/EncodedColumn.pm Checking if your kit is complete... Looks good Writing Makefile for DBIx::Class::EncodedColumn Microsoft (R) Program Maintenance Utility Version 8.00.50727.42 Copyright (C) Microsoft Corporation. All rights reserved. cp lib/DBIx/Class/EncodedColumn/Crypt/Eksblowfish/Bcrypt.pm blib\lib\DBIx\Class\EncodedColumn\Crypt\Eksblowfish\Bcrypt.pm cp lib/DBIx/Class/EncodedColumn.pm blib\lib\DBIx\Class\EncodedColumn.pm cp lib/DBIx/Class/EncodedColumn/Digest.pm blib\lib\DBIx\Class\EncodedColumn\Digest.pm cp lib/DBIx/Class/EncodedColumn/Crypt/OpenPGP.pm blib\lib\DBIx\Class\EncodedColumn\Crypt\OpenPGP.pm GRODITI/DBIx-Class-EncodedColumn-0.2.tar.gz nmake -- OK Running make test Microsoft (R) Program Maintenance Utility Version 8.00.50727.42 Copyright (C) Microsoft Corporation. All rights reserved. E:\perl510\bin\perl.exe -MExtUtils::Command::MM -e test_harness(0, 'inc', 'blib\lib', 'blib\arch') t/*.t t/01load..ok t/02digest1/32 Can't call method keysize on an undefined value at E:/perl510/site/lib/Crypt/OpenPGP.pm line 525. # Looks like you planned 32 tests but ran 26. # Looks like your test exited with 2 just after 26. t/02digest Dubious, test returned 2 (wstat 512, 0x200) Failed 6/32 subtests Test Summary Report --- t/02digest (Wstat: 512 Tests: 26 Failed: 0) Non-zero exit status: 2 Parse errors: Bad plan. You planned 32 tests but ran 26. Files=2, Tests=27, 2 wallclock secs ( 0.03 usr + 0.00 sys = 0.03 CPU) Result: FAIL Failed 1/2 test programs. 0/27 subtests failed. NMAKE : fatal error U1077: 'E:\perl510\bin\perl.exe' : return code '0x2' Stop. GRODITI/DBIx-Class-EncodedColumn-0.2.tar.gz nmake test -- NOT OK //hint// to see the cpan-testers results for installing this module, try: reports GRODITI/DBIx-Class-EncodedColumn-0.2.tar.gz Running make install make test had returned bad status, won't install without force Failed during this command: GRODITI/DBIx-Class-EncodedColumn-0.2.tar.gz: make_test NO cpan ___ List: Catalyst@lists.scsys.co.uk Listinfo: http://lists.scsys.co.uk/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/catalyst Searchable archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/catalyst@lists.scsys.co.uk/ Dev site: http://dev.catalyst.perl.org/
Re: RFC local::lib + CPAN shell support in CatalystX::Starter (was: Re: [Catalyst] RFC: The paradox of choice in web development)
On 19 Feb 2009, at 18:27, Matt Pitts wrote: All this talk about Perl/Catalyst/CPAN pains, has got me thinking... Anybody like the idea of having a local::lib bootstrap option to CatalystX::Starter and possible integration of a script that would launch a CPAN shell for installing into the local::lib folder? CatalystX::Starter is for boot strapping a Catalyst component, not an application. You'd be looking to add to Catalyst::Devel Or, maybe a separate module Catalyst::Starter::LocalLib? The idea would be to help folks bootstrap Cat apps and get all the deps inside the app folder right from the start for easier deployment. Of course it won't eliminate the need for a shell, but it's still an improvement. You'd be looking to have local::lib support built into the scripts etc which Catalyst generates, and an additional shell script in your scripts directory to start a CPAN shell pointing at your application's local::lib and tricks to install all the non perl core dependencies into that directory? That sounds like a good idea, and I've considered hacking on it myself, but never found the tuits. I could probably put together a patch if I can get some best practice ideas. I'm thinking of rails' ability to 'freeze' rails into your application here. In actual fact, I've never found this feature very useful as I want to freeze all the dependencies too (this is possible, but involves hacking environment.rb and etc in the same way as manually attaching a local::lib to your Cat app). I guess the biggest argument is likely to be what the correct name for the directory containing your local::lib is. I also expect there would be a fair amount of toolchain related yak-shaving to get it right, but its certainly a feature I'd like to see happen. Cheers t0m ___ List: Catalyst@lists.scsys.co.uk Listinfo: http://lists.scsys.co.uk/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/catalyst Searchable archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/catalyst@lists.scsys.co.uk/ Dev site: http://dev.catalyst.perl.org/
Re: [Catalyst] Re: decoding in core (Was: [Announce] Catalyst-Runtime-5.8000_05)
On 6 Feb 2009, at 17:36, Bill Moseley wrote: Sure. IIRC, I think there's already been some patches and code posted so maybe I can dig that up again off the archives. Please do. But, sounds like it's not that important of an issue. The fact that nobody is working on it currently is not an indication that it isn't an important problem to try to solve. Cheers t0m ___ List: Catalyst@lists.scsys.co.uk Listinfo: http://lists.scsys.co.uk/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/catalyst Searchable archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/catalyst@lists.scsys.co.uk/ Dev site: http://dev.catalyst.perl.org/
Re: [Catalyst] RFC: New to Catalyst questions
On 20 Feb 2009, at 01:18, Trevor Phillips wrote: What is the best practices for Wiki updates? There isn't one specifically. Should new articles be posted to this list first, for discussion, or should they be just whacked into the Wiki, then posted here for review/deletion? I'd do the latter, as it doesn't block getting your content out and editable by a bunch of people. If people don't care - they won't read your list post, if they do care then it's going to be easier for everyone to contribute if the text is in the wiki than if you have to tease apart a mailing list thread of comments and re-post. Although giving the list heads up if you add anything significant that you'd like reviewing is totally cool :) Is there an alert/review process for Wiki edits? Is there a core team that will be notified of changes/additions, so they can review/delete? No, there isn't. As someone fairly new to Catalyst, I'm happy to contribute, but I'm hesitant to jump in start making changes additions... Perhaps there should be a prominent page on the Wiki on how to best contribute to the Wiki? Well done, you just volunteered to write that page (and some others if I was hearing right) :) Cheers t0m ___ List: Catalyst@lists.scsys.co.uk Listinfo: http://lists.scsys.co.uk/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/catalyst Searchable archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/catalyst@lists.scsys.co.uk/ Dev site: http://dev.catalyst.perl.org/
[Catalyst] windows install issues (Was: RFC: New to Catalyst questions)
I think the relevant error is: t/02digest1/32 Can't call method keysize on an undefined value at E:/perl510/site/lib/Crypt/OpenPGP.pm line 525. I have tried a: cpan install Crypt::OpenPGP But I received the message that this module is up to date. I use ActivePerl 5.10.0 build 1004. Oops, ok, sorry, I thought you had Strawberry. Last year I swapped all things Active for Strawberry Perl. In any case, maybe you can tinker with the ActivePerl cpan Config.pm so that it uses the MinGW compiler and the Strawberry cpan settings. The idea would be to make ActivePerl compile its modules using the Strawberry config settings.Don't know if that would work. Another way (if don't want to switch to strawberry flavored perl) is to just install Strawberry, then edit your PATH and strip off all c:\strawberry\... directories so that it won't disturb your ActivePerl installation. Then create a little bat file that will give you a strawberry prompt. Install modules with strawberry cpan, then copy them from strawberry\perl\site (and auto) into ActivePerl's \site directories. ___ List: Catalyst@lists.scsys.co.uk Listinfo: http://lists.scsys.co.uk/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/catalyst Searchable archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/catalyst@lists.scsys.co.uk/ Dev site: http://dev.catalyst.perl.org/
[Catalyst] Malformed requests may break $c-req-uri_for()
I've been using $c-req-uri_for()-as_string() to generate URLs for actions
when I need to switch between schemes (http and https). I've discovered that
this breaks for some malformed requests (using Catalyst 5.7015 on
Apache/2.2.9 (Debian)): if I do this:
telnet myserver 80
GET xxx HTTP/1.1
Host: myserver
Then $c-req-uri_for('action')-as_string() returns
'myserverxxx/action'. I wouldn't care much except that I'm required to
pass a security scan which appears to be being done by Nessus. One of the
checks it does is basically this:
telnet myserver 80
GET IMG%20SRC=\javascript:alert(cross_site_scripting.nasl);\ /
HTTP/1.1
Host: myserver
So the returned page includes their XSS test code in any https links because
I generated them from $c-req-uri_for()-as_string(), and so the security
test fails.
I've fixed this by generating the URLs differently
($c-req-uri_for()-host() seems unaffected) so it's not a problem any
more.
I thought a more generic fix might be useful but after a quick look at the
code it's too complex for me to come up with something right now. Hopefully
I can revisit this soon. Meanwhile, this message is intended to get some
relavant keywords into the list archive in case anyone else searches there
and might find it useful.
I'm not currently using Catalyst::Plugin::RequireSSL so I don't know if
that's affected by this. I expect I will discover that soon...
Merlyn Kline
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Re: [Catalyst] Re: decoding in core
Braindump follows. * On Fri, Feb 20 2009, Tomas Doran wrote: On 6 Feb 2009, at 17:36, Bill Moseley wrote: Sure. IIRC, I think there's already been some patches and code posted so maybe I can dig that up again off the archives. Please do. But, sounds like it's not that important of an issue. The fact that nobody is working on it currently is not an indication that it isn't an important problem to try to solve. I meant to write a plugin to do this a long time ago, but I guess I never cared enough. The problem with writing a plugin or making this core is that people really really want to misuse Unicode, and will whine when you try to force correctness upon them. The only place where you are really allowed to use non-ASCII characters are in the request and response. (HTTP has a way of representing the character encoding of its payload -- URLs and Cookies don't.) C::P::Unicode handles this correct usage correctly. The problem is that people want Unicode to magically work where it's not allowed. This includes HTTP headers (WTF!?), and URLs. (BTW, when I say Unicode, I don't necessarily mean Unicode... I mean non-ASCII characters. The Japanese character sets contain non-Unicode characters, and some people want to put these characters in their URLs or HTTP headers. I wish I was making ths up, but I am not. The Unicode process really fucked over the Asian languages.) So anyway, the plugin basically needs to have the following config options, so users can specify what they want. Inside Catalyst, only Perl characters should be allowed, unless you mark the string as binary (there is a CPAN module that does this, Something::BLOB). * Input HTTP header encoding (ASCII default) (this is for data in $c-req-headers, cookies, etc.) (perhaps cookies should be separately configured) * Input URI encoding (probably UTF-8 default) (the dispatcher will dispatch on the decoded characters) (source code encoding is handled by Perl, hopefully) * Input request body encoding (read HTTP headers and decide) * Output HTTP headers encoding (maybe die if this happens, because it's totally illegal to have non-ascii in the headers) * Output URI encoding ($c-uri_for and friends will use this to translate the names of actions that are named with wide characters) * Output response body encoding (this needs to update the HTTP headers, namely the charset= part of Content-type) I think that is everything. There are subtle issues, like knowing not to touch XML (it's binary), dealing with $c-res-body( filehandle ), and so on. One last thing, if this becomes core, it will definitely break people's apps. Many, many apps are blissfully unaware of characters and treat text as binary... and their apps kind-of appear to work. As soon as they get some real characters in their app, though, they will have double-encoded nonsense all over the place, and will blame you for this. (I loaded Catalyst::Plugin::Unicode, and my app broke! It's all your fault. Yup, people mail that to me privately all the time. For some reason, they think I am going to personally fix their app, despite having written volumes of documentation about this. Wrong.) Anyway, I just wanted to get this out of my head and onto paper, for someone else to look at and perhaps implement. :) Regards, Jonathan Rockway -- print just = another = perl = hacker = if $,=$ ___ List: Catalyst@lists.scsys.co.uk Listinfo: http://lists.scsys.co.uk/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/catalyst Searchable archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/catalyst@lists.scsys.co.uk/ Dev site: http://dev.catalyst.perl.org/
Re: [Catalyst] Re: decoding in core
* On Fri, Feb 20 2009, Jonathan Rockway wrote: Braindump follows. Oh yeah, one other thing. IDNs will need to be decoded/encoded, probably. ($c-req-host should contain perl characters, but links should probably be punycoded. Fun!) -- print just = another = perl = hacker = if $,=$ ___ List: Catalyst@lists.scsys.co.uk Listinfo: http://lists.scsys.co.uk/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/catalyst Searchable archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/catalyst@lists.scsys.co.uk/ Dev site: http://dev.catalyst.perl.org/
[Catalyst] MojoMojo now has it's own mailing list.
I just thought I'd mention that we've created a separate mailing list for MojoMojo at http://lists.scsys.co.uk/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mojomojo Please subscribe if you are interested in using or developing the wiki that powers dev.catalyst.perl.org. With regards Marcus Ramberg ___ List: Catalyst@lists.scsys.co.uk Listinfo: http://lists.scsys.co.uk/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/catalyst Searchable archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/catalyst@lists.scsys.co.uk/ Dev site: http://dev.catalyst.perl.org/
Re: [Catalyst] Plugin::Authentication overrides $c-req-user
On 20 Feb 2009, at 22:57, Daniel Westermann-Clark wrote: On 2009-02-11 21:53:48 +, Tomas Doran wrote: Why not just add a remote_user() method on $c-req instead? It's a little more typing, but is more explicit about where the value comes from and doesn't potentially break any existing apps. Patches on 5.80 welcome :) Attached is a set of patches to add support for $c-req-remote_user, including a basic test. Good stuff, thanks. I've branched 5.80 trunk and applied your Runtime change, and then I've fiddled the 'do we warn' logic to be a bit safer. Have a look and let me know what you think? http://dev.catalystframework.org/repos/Catalyst/Catalyst-Runtime/5.80/ branches/deprecate_req_user/ Test for the new functionality looks fine. There is also a deprecation warning for non-Catalyst packages calling $c-req-user. Is anything in the current test suite triggering the new warning? If so, can you switch it over to be calling -remote_user instead, and can you add a call to read -user which provokes the warning, and test you get the expected warning (see t/deprecated.t r9354 - you could just add the warning test here/to that app which already has its global logger overridden?) I'm not sure about the engine patches, but it seemed like a forward-compatible way to add support now for the new method. They look totally sane to me. Lets get Runtime right and a nod from andyg before applying them however :) Feel free to supply another patch against the branch, or hop on irc and grab a commit bit so you can commit yourself? Cheers t0m ___ List: Catalyst@lists.scsys.co.uk Listinfo: http://lists.scsys.co.uk/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/catalyst Searchable archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/catalyst@lists.scsys.co.uk/ Dev site: http://dev.catalyst.perl.org/
Re: [Catalyst] Catalyst needing LOTS of RAM
Although this does not directly address your issue it just might give you some new ideas for scaling up Catalyst. I agree with many here that you should profile your app for leaky culprits. Since you don't give much detail on you platform or other details it's little what one can recommend. Anyway, this aside I just want to share that I have had ___excellent___ experience with Apache mod_worker instead of pre-fork. If your app is designed for a large number of concurrent requests you will benefit greatly from multi-threaded Apahe mod_worker and Catalyst with mod_perl. You will be able to spawn many, many more threads with a lot less overall consumption of RAM. The catch is that you have to be more careful with leaks, but you can use the special worker MPM directives like MaxRequestsPerChild which will kill and restart a child after N requests as safeguard for non-thread safe or leaky modules. Best, Alejandro Imass On Wed, Feb 18, 2009 at 10:14 AM, Neo [GC] n...@gothic-chat.de wrote: Hello guys, after fiddling around with Catalyst+DBIx starup time, here comes my next issue: Is there some way to tune Catalyst to use less RAM? Is there even some kind of explanation for the really FAT memory footprint? Currently, our project allocates 330MB RAM right after startup (with myproject_server.pl or fastcgi). Over the time this is getting worse; some month after the projects start it used about 80MB and we think with some additional controllers and stuff it will need over 500MB. I know there is some advent calendar entry about restartig the catalyst-process when it reaches a memory limit (what is good - our processes tend to grow up to 1GB), but this doesn't help at startup. Is this normal behaviour? The problem is, we use multiple instances of the application. So every customer has his own catalyst instance with own database and - of course - own fastcgi-process. Currently we are running it on a machine with 16GB of RAM and will soon get to the physical and budgetary limits. Is Catalyst just not intended for this kind of use (and more like one server, one site) or is there some black magic we just haven't found yet? Btw: Neither reducing the count of the DBIx-models nor disabling the debug-mode does have an impact on memory footprint. Thanks and regards, Thomas Weber ___ List: Catalyst@lists.scsys.co.uk Listinfo: http://lists.scsys.co.uk/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/catalyst Searchable archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/catalyst@lists.scsys.co.uk/ Dev site: http://dev.catalyst.perl.org/ ___ List: Catalyst@lists.scsys.co.uk Listinfo: http://lists.scsys.co.uk/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/catalyst Searchable archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/catalyst@lists.scsys.co.uk/ Dev site: http://dev.catalyst.perl.org/
