Secure Apache Server with mod_ssl and openssl
Hi!
RedHat Linux 7.1
Apache 1.3.19
Perl 5.005
mod_perl 1.24
embperl
mod_ssl and openssl (precompiled from RedHat Linux 7.1)
I'm trying to establish an SSL link between browser and apache web server.
Before, I had a web page located in two different directories (bla/bla/htdocs/Intro
and /bla/bla/htdocs/CIP). The idea is that the first directory should use the
non-secure server and the second should use the secure server. I only want to use ONE
ip-adress. I tried setting up the following environment in my httpd.conf file:
Listen 443
VirtualHost ip-adress:443
DocumentRoot /bla/bla/htdocs/CIP
ServerName localhost
SSLEngine on
SSLCertificateFile /etc/httpd/conf/ssl.crt/server.crt
SSLCertificateKeyFile /etc/httpd/conf/ssl.key/server.key
Files ~ \.(cgi|shtml)$
SSLOptions +StdEnvVars
/Files
Directory /usr/local/www/data/site.toddle/htdocs/Intro/cgi-bin
SSLOptions +StdEnvVars
/Directory
SetEnvIf User-Agent .*MSIE.* nokeepalive ssl-unclean-shutdown
Error_log /var/log/httpd/ssl_error_log
CustomLog /var/log/httpd/ssl_request_log \
%t %h %{SSL_PROTOCOL}x %{SSL_CIPHER}x \%r\ %b
/VirtualHost
I'm also using AuthCookie to provide authentication procedure in order to enter the
protected directory (/CIP). I specify the login handling procedures for ../CIP in
the .htaccess file.
I want to be able to access the unprotected documents(http://...) and from them, the
protected documents(https://) without having to write https explicitly.
But with the above configuration, none of the documents require SSL.
When I add the following to my conf file before the virtual host, I get an error
message saying SSL connection required in my error_log and I can't enter the
protected directory.
Directory /CIP
SSLrequireSSL
/Directory
Is this something I can specify in the browser I'm using? I'm using a self-signed
certificate along with the generated key.
Does anyone understand my dilemma? the ssl_error_log shows nothing and I can't enter
https://localhost.
I'd be grateful for any help on this matter. I've tried the RedHat secure web server
tutorial but I still don't understand how to configure the webserver for the two
different directories.
Thanks,
Emma
Antwort: Re: Appending Sessionid to all the urls
Hi kheeteck,
as said before - a session id at the end of the URL (as path info, GET parameter
or POST parameter) will not stay there if you don't modify all displayed html
pages. As I understand, you can't modify these pages because thay are on another
server. That means you also can't use a leading session id. Bad. There is only
one way left to store information on the browser's side: Cookies.
cu
Michael
Datum: 22.05.2001 19:10
An:Michael Jacob/EXT/GAD@GAD
Kopie: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Betreff: Re: Appending Sessionid to all the urls
Nachrichtentext:
Hi Michael :
I am really glad that you reply to my mail.. as i have been trying to solve
this problem for quite some time
Hmm , however i think u slightly misunderstand what i mean..
What i mean is...
For eg,
I have a html page which contains a form page let say allowing the user to
enter certain values... like colorNo etc.
This values would be posted to my server and the data would be stored in a
database(mysql) together with a unqiue
session id which would be generated. ( for this part i have finished and is
working).
Now comes the problematic part, after the values are submitted. I want this
value to be avaiable to me each time
as user enter a new url from the browser( take note this url is not the
content residing in my server.. it is any remote site url).
The only way is to append a session id at the url.
So for instance.. after the user finished entering the form page. He can now
access any urls(remote site). How do i tell the server that this is the user
who has entered the form earlier based on the session id generated. And for
all the subsquent links... how can i append the session id.
I would greatly appreciated if you could help me out..
Really thanks to you
Regards
kheeteck
- Original Message -
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: ktgoh [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Cc: mod_perl [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Wednesday, May 23, 2001 12:27 AM
Subject: Re: Appending Sessionid to all the urls
Hi ktgoh,
you don't tell the browser about the session id. Why?
To use a session id that's appended to the URL is hard work - it has to be
maintaned in every module and html file. So you must append the session id
to
every URL in every page and every piece of code that produces html. Ther
is no
way to automatically keep the id sticky.
A better way for session ids is to put them in front of the URI:
http://www.nus.edu.sg/dfd3453/some/path/and/file.html
This is (part of) my uri-translation-handler:
sub handler ($r: Apache) {
# only do initial request - not an internal sub req
return DECLINED unless $r-is_initial_req;
return DECLINED unless $r-uri =~ m/$DIR_MATCH/o;
try my $check_uri = check_uri($r);
return DECLINED if $check_uri; # URI contains session id and session
object
could be read from the DB
# else redirect to mangled URI
try my $session_id = make_session_id($r);
redirect($r, $session_id);
return REDIRECT;
# end of main handler
}
sub check_uri ($r: Apache) {
my $uri = $r-uri || undef;
my (undef, $sessionid, $rest) = split '/', $uri, 3;
if ($sessionid $sessionid =~ m/^[0-9a-h]{32,32}$/o) {
$r-uri(/$rest);
try void lock_session_id($r, $sessionid);
return 1;
}
return undef;
}
sub redirect ($r: Apache, $session_id: string min 32 max 32) {
my $args = $r-args ? '?' . $r-args : '';
my $uri = $r-parsed_uri;
$redirect = $uri-scheme . '://' . $uri-$hostinfo . '/'. $session_id .
'/' .
$uri-path . $args;
$r-header_out(Location = $redirect);
}
These session ids are sticky as long as you only use relative paths in
your
html. Note: You may want to put your images in a directory that's not
covered by
this handler and use absolute paths...
Datum: 22.05.2001 12:03
An:mod_perl [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Betreff: Appending Sessionid to all the urls
Nachrichtentext:
Hi all :
I wanted to write a mod URL rewrite program.
I wanted to append session ID to the tail of all the urls of a website.
For instance when i access url http://www.nus.edu.sg?sessionid=dfd3453
i want all the urls to be appended in all the urls of that website..
My qns is everytime i found that the session id is lost... through the
many
requests and responses.
And the new url does not reflect on the client browser..
Any one got any idea.. what wrong with my program??
Thanks for your help...
sub handler {
my $r = shift;
my $url = $r-uri;
my $sessID;
if($url =~ m/sessionid/){
$sessID= getSessionID($url);
}
my $append =?sessionid=$sessID
my $newURL = $r-uri($url$append);
return DECLINED;
}
sub getSessionID{
my $url = $_[0];
my $position = rindex($url,=)+1;
my $sessID = substr($url,$position,8);
return $sessID;
}
Regards
kheeteck
Re: Connection to MySQL DB fails when mod_perl enabled...
Hi there, On Tue, 22 May 2001, Ask Bjoern Hansen wrote: If you want to die then Come on, mod_perl is tricky sometimes but things can't be that bad... 73, Ged.
Re: Appending Sessionid to all the urls
Hi Michael :
I am really glad that you reply to my mail.. as i have been trying to solve
this problem for quite some time
Hmm , however i think u slightly misunderstand what i mean..
What i mean is...
For eg,
I have a html page which contains a form page let say allowing the user to
enter certain values... like colorNo etc.
This values would be posted to my server and the data would be stored in a
database(mysql) together with a unqiue
session id which would be generated. ( for this part i have finished and is
working).
Now comes the problematic part, after the values are submitted. I want this
value to be avaiable to me each time
as user enter a new url from the browser( take note this url is not the
content residing in my server.. it is any remote site url).
The only way is to append a session id at the url.
So for instance.. after the user finished entering the form page. He can now
access any urls(remote site). How do i tell the server that this is the user
who has entered the form earlier based on the session id generated. And for
all the subsquent links... how can i append the session id.
I would greatly appreciated if you could help me out..
Really thanks to you
Regards
kheeteck
- Original Message -
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: ktgoh [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Cc: mod_perl [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Wednesday, May 23, 2001 12:27 AM
Subject: Re: Appending Sessionid to all the urls
Hi ktgoh,
you don't tell the browser about the session id. Why?
To use a session id that's appended to the URL is hard work - it has to be
maintaned in every module and html file. So you must append the session id
to
every URL in every page and every piece of code that produces html. Ther
is no
way to automatically keep the id sticky.
A better way for session ids is to put them in front of the URI:
http://www.nus.edu.sg/dfd3453/some/path/and/file.html
This is (part of) my uri-translation-handler:
sub handler ($r: Apache) {
# only do initial request - not an internal sub req
return DECLINED unless $r-is_initial_req;
return DECLINED unless $r-uri =~ m/$DIR_MATCH/o;
try my $check_uri = check_uri($r);
return DECLINED if $check_uri; # URI contains session id and session
object
could be read from the DB
# else redirect to mangled URI
try my $session_id = make_session_id($r);
redirect($r, $session_id);
return REDIRECT;
# end of main handler
}
sub check_uri ($r: Apache) {
my $uri = $r-uri || undef;
my (undef, $sessionid, $rest) = split '/', $uri, 3;
if ($sessionid $sessionid =~ m/^[0-9a-h]{32,32}$/o) {
$r-uri(/$rest);
try void lock_session_id($r, $sessionid);
return 1;
}
return undef;
}
sub redirect ($r: Apache, $session_id: string min 32 max 32) {
my $args = $r-args ? '?' . $r-args : '';
my $uri = $r-parsed_uri;
$redirect = $uri-scheme . '://' . $uri-$hostinfo . '/'. $session_id .
'/' .
$uri-path . $args;
$r-header_out(Location = $redirect);
}
These session ids are sticky as long as you only use relative paths in
your
html. Note: You may want to put your images in a directory that's not
covered by
this handler and use absolute paths...
Datum: 22.05.2001 12:03
An:mod_perl [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Betreff: Appending Sessionid to all the urls
Nachrichtentext:
Hi all :
I wanted to write a mod URL rewrite program.
I wanted to append session ID to the tail of all the urls of a website.
For instance when i access url http://www.nus.edu.sg?sessionid=dfd3453
i want all the urls to be appended in all the urls of that website..
My qns is everytime i found that the session id is lost... through the
many
requests and responses.
And the new url does not reflect on the client browser..
Any one got any idea.. what wrong with my program??
Thanks for your help...
sub handler {
my $r = shift;
my $url = $r-uri;
my $sessID;
if($url =~ m/sessionid/){
$sessID= getSessionID($url);
}
my $append =?sessionid=$sessID
my $newURL = $r-uri($url$append);
return DECLINED;
}
sub getSessionID{
my $url = $_[0];
my $position = rindex($url,=)+1;
my $sessID = substr($url,$position,8);
return $sessID;
}
Regards
kheeteck
[Mason] Apache::Session not storing changes to hashref
[Citation date: Tue, 22 May 2001 15:59:52 -0400]
Chris == Chris Thompson [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Chris I've got a hash %s successfully re tied every request. I'm
Chris using it to store a session id and userid with success, so
Chris I know it's storing.
In the Behavior section of the Apache::Session man page, you'll find:
Note that Apache::Session does only a shallow check to see if
anything has changed. If nothing changes in the top level tied
hash, the data will not be updated in the back- ing store. You
are encouraged to timestamp the session hash so that it is sure
to be updated.
Basically, you'll need to either:
1. Use the 'timestamp' technique suggested above.
2. Deference your variables a bit before updates. Instead of:
$s{$x}-[$y]-{$z} = 5;
you'll need to use some intermediate variables:
$q = $s{$x}-[$y];
$q-{$z} = 5;
$s{$x} = $q;
RTFM.
-- [EMAIL PROTECTED]
A hundred thousand lemmings can't be wrong.
-- attributed to Larry Sheldon, Jr.
Re: Appending Sessionid to all the urls
On Wed, May 23, 2001 at 12:59:39AM +0800, kheeteck wrote: Hi Michael : I am really glad that you reply to my mail.. as i have been trying to solve this problem for quite some time Hmm , however i think u slightly misunderstand what i mean.. What i mean is... For eg, I have a html page which contains a form page let say allowing the user to enter certain values... like colorNo etc. This values would be posted to my server and the data would be stored in a database(mysql) together with a unqiue session id which would be generated. ( for this part i have finished and is working). Now comes the problematic part, after the values are submitted. I want this value to be avaiable to me each time as user enter a new url from the browser( take note this url is not the content residing in my server.. it is any remote site url). The only way is to append a session id at the url. So for instance.. after the user finished entering the form page. He can now access any urls(remote site). How do i tell the server that this is the user who has entered the form earlier based on the session id generated. And for all the subsquent links... how can i append the session id. I would greatly appreciated if you could help me out.. Really thanks to you Have you considered using cookies? They're designed for just this purpose, and are much simpler to use in general. Julian -- =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- Julian Gilbey, Dept of Maths, Queen Mary, Univ. of London Debian GNU/Linux Developer, see http://people.debian.org/~jdg Donate free food to the world's hungry: see http://www.thehungersite.com/
mod_perl and NES/iPlanet
All, I know this is stupid question... but I want to confirm this thing from apache/mod_perl Gurus here.. mod_perl can not be used with NES or iPlanet web server, right? We are so much screwed up here with iPlanet but we have to use that for some other reasons.. So, we were exploring the possibilities.. Niral
credit card processing
I was looking through the mod_perl archives and saw a post from doug about a credit card processing system called 'creditor' i looked on the covalent web site, but i couldn't find any info. Did this thing ever see the light of day? If not, what are some alternatives to it? i was forwarded this url (http://www.paygateway.com/tech/perl_plug/), but sites without index pages make me wonder. Any feedback would be appreciated. It would be especially great if we would be able to bill in both US and Canadian Dollar's using the same thing. TIA Adam
RE: mod_perl and NES/iPlanet
Unfortunately, Mod_perl is completely an apache thing. Although it would be very cool to see the 'concept' of mod_perl (A perl wrapper to a Server API) spread to other servers. - Brendan W. McAdams | [EMAIL PROTECTED] Senior Applications Developer | (212) 208-9116 TheMuniCenter, LLC | www.themunicenter.com Always listen to experts. They'll tell you what can't be done, and why. Then do it. - Robert A. Heinlein -Original Message- From: Niral Trivedi [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Wednesday, May 23, 2001 10:22 To: '[EMAIL PROTECTED]' Subject: mod_perl and NES/iPlanet All, I know this is stupid question... but I want to confirm this thing from apache/mod_perl Gurus here.. mod_perl can not be used with NES or iPlanet web server, right? We are so much screwed up here with iPlanet but we have to use that for some other reasons.. So, we were exploring the possibilities.. Niral
Re: [DIGEST] mod_perl digest 05/13/01
-- mod_perl digest May 13, 2001 - May 19, 2001 -- Recent happenings in the mod_perl world... mod_perl status o mod_perl - stable: 1.25 (released January 29, 2001) [1] - development: 1.25_01-dev [2] o Apache - stable: 1.3.19 (released February 28, 2001) [3] Nope - stable is 1.3.20 (fixing a Win32 issue) released May 15, 2001 - development: 1.3.21-dev [4] o Perl - stable: 5.6.1 (released April 9, 2001) [5] - development: 5.7.1 [6] Issac Internet is a wonderful mechanism for making a fool of yourself in front of a very large audience. --Anonymous Moving the mouse won't get you into trouble... Clicking it might. --Anonymous PGP Key 0xE0FA561B - Fingerprint: 7E18 C018 D623 A57B 7F37 D902 8C84 7675 E0FA 561B
Re: Real Widgets and Template Languages
Hi, I will step up to write this code. (if it is what I think it is) I have responded to the message by beginning a requirements document. http://www.officevision.com/pub/HTML-Widget/ Please read it and send me any comments. The following are the questions I need advice on in order to proceed. * What CPAN package namespace should I use? I studied the existing packages, and what we are trying to do looks like it fits under the existing top level package HTML. I propose to take the space HTML::Widget (see package layout in design doc). Gunther suggested the top-level Widget name space. I was under the impression that we should stay away from creating new top-level entries at CPAN unless there was really *nothing* similar. Confusingly, there is already an HTML::Widgets. Thoughts? * What CPAN packages should I begin with and build upon? CGI and Apache::Request were mentioned. I figure I will use these. HTML::StickyWidgets was also mentioned. Do you mean HTML::StickyForms? Are there others I should build dependencies on? * Should I begin immediately with a new Sourceforge project? another way? The codebase I will begin with is in CVS on my local server. Perhaps I should just continue that way and post versions to CPAN for distribution. However, we may have email traffic for the project that exceeds the general interests of the modperl list. Thoughts? I would need to get enough responses from people who would join that Sourceforge mailing list before it would be worth it to go do that. Stephen There has been some discussion on the list lately about generating widgets ala CGI.pm, HTML::StickyWidgets etc... The thing is that these products or plug-ins are very HTML oriented. The widget is defined as an HTML widget like a textfield or checkbox or dropdown or what-have-you. What I am really looking for is a library that abstracts and allows widgets to be developed that are tied to an application not to a set of HTML necessarily. I guess I will start by providing an example of what I want based on what we currently do in our Java framework when he use Templating there. I'd like it if someone has developed the same thing in Perl that we could reuse, otherwise, we may need to write this. ... snip ...
Re: Appending Sessionid to all the urls
Greetings, One problem with using cookies for session management is that the user can have two browsers open doing the same process. Which means the first cookie Session ID will be over writen by the second one. Which can lead to horrid results if the user continues the first process but has the session ID from the second process. May not be an issue out in the Internet but is a true pain in an intranet environment. Cheers Stuart. On 23 May 2001 11:53:32 +0100, Julian Gilbey wrote: On Wed, May 23, 2001 at 12:59:39AM +0800, kheeteck wrote: Hi Michael : I am really glad that you reply to my mail.. as i have been trying to solve this problem for quite some time Hmm , however i think u slightly misunderstand what i mean.. What i mean is... For eg, I have a html page which contains a form page let say allowing the user to enter certain values... like colorNo etc. This values would be posted to my server and the data would be stored in a database(mysql) together with a unqiue session id which would be generated. ( for this part i have finished and is working). Now comes the problematic part, after the values are submitted. I want this value to be avaiable to me each time as user enter a new url from the browser( take note this url is not the content residing in my server.. it is any remote site url). The only way is to append a session id at the url. So for instance.. after the user finished entering the form page. He can now access any urls(remote site). How do i tell the server that this is the user who has entered the form earlier based on the session id generated. And for all the subsquent links... how can i append the session id. I would greatly appreciated if you could help me out.. Really thanks to you Have you considered using cookies? They're designed for just this purpose, and are much simpler to use in general. Julian -- =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- Julian Gilbey, Dept of Maths, Queen Mary, Univ. of London Debian GNU/Linux Developer, see http://people.debian.org/~jdg Donate free food to the world's hungry: see http://www.thehungersite.com/ -- Cheers Stuart --- New Zealand Revolution [EMAIL PROTECTED] +64 9 918 7663
RE: [DIGEST] mod_perl digest 05/13/01
[snip] - stable: 1.3.19 (released February 28, 2001) [3] Nope - stable is 1.3.20 (fixing a Win32 issue) released May 15, 2001 actually, the official release wasn't announced to [EMAIL PROTECTED] until yesterday. until there is an offical announcement, there is always the possibility that the release will be pulled and stable will stay where it was (note I did bump the dev version, though). I also mentioned that, based on the noted link from new-httpd, that a release notice was forthcoming... at any rate, thanks for being a second set of eyes - I've missed releases before :) --Geoff
Re: Real Widgets and Template Languages
Stephen, I read your proposal and I like it a lot. I will help filling out the HTML::Widget::HTML* space (in your package structure suggestion). However, I like Gunther's suggestion for a namespace of Widget:: better than HTML::Widget::, because it will not be exclusively HTML, but WML, JS10, etc. But either one is fine with me. Sounds fun! -Adi Stephen Adkins wrote: Hi, I will step up to write this code. (if it is what I think it is) I have responded to the message by beginning a requirements document. http://www.officevision.com/pub/HTML-Widget/ Please read it and send me any comments.
Re: Real Widgets and Template Languages
If I could make a suggestion -- don't depend upon a CGI.pm interface
for form variables. Abstract it away. One option would be to use
closures:
my $cgi = new CGI;
my $formvar = sub { $cgi-param(@_) };
my $wc = HTML::Widget::Controller-new(\%config, $formvar);
Or possibly, inside the constructor, do something like:
sub HTML::Widget::Controller::new {
my $class = shift;
my $config = shift;
my $cgi = shift;
if (ref $cgi and ref $cgi eq 'CGI') {
my $tmp = $cgi; # not strictly necessary, but it makes it clearer
$cgi = sub { $tmp-param(@_) };
}
...
}
That way the user can easily give you different sources of formvars
(libapreq, Apache::ASP's hash, plus others not yet public) and yet you
still get the flexibility you need.
I would suggest using a class for this kind of thing, but
realistically it's a bit much to expect users to derive classes just
for something as simple as this. By supporting the coderef closure
internally, you don't force users to understand what's going on, but
still allow for more advanced users to use different interfaces. Plus
you remove dependance on a web server.
Chip
Adi Fairbank [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Stephen,
I read your proposal and I like it a lot. I will help filling out the
HTML::Widget::HTML* space (in your package structure suggestion).
However, I like Gunther's suggestion for a namespace of Widget:: better than
HTML::Widget::, because it will not be exclusively HTML, but WML, JS10,
etc. But either one is fine with me.
Sounds fun!
-Adi
Stephen Adkins wrote:
Hi,
I will step up to write this code. (if it is what I think it is)
I have responded to the message by beginning a requirements document.
http://www.officevision.com/pub/HTML-Widget/
Please read it and send me any comments.
--
Chip Turner [EMAIL PROTECTED]
RHN Web Engineer
Problem running CGI Script
Hi, Assuming I have configured Apache server for running CGI scripts on the Linux platform , I get an error when I type the URL http://MYMACHINENO:8080/cgi-bin/.PLX PROGRAM on the browser ERROR:The requested item could not be loaded by the proxy.Operation timed out. Kindly help! Thanking you in advance, Garima.
Sessions with Postgres
Hi, sorry for crossposting. I'd like to use Apache::Session with Postgres as a backend (from HTML::Embperl if possible), but I'm still having problems. People on these lists complain from time to time that they have problems with this combination but searching archives don't give many advices / just list of problems... Is anybody here using Apache::Session/Postgres combination without problems? If so, could you be so kind as to post your configuration? If not, how far did you get last time you tried? Is anybody interested in using it at all? Sorry if I sound a bit pessimistic - I applied patch Angus Lee posted week ago on Embperl list and it almost works, but I still have some idle postgres backend hanging around. It's getting really frustrating. - Robert
BUG PATCH (was: Strange status returns from perl_handler)
On Mon, May 21, 2001 at 06:36:54PM +0100, Julian Gilbey wrote: We've just upgraded a SunOS machine from Apache 1.3.9 + mod_perl 1.21 (dynamically linked) to Apache 1.3.19 + mod_perl 1.25 (statically linked). I have a CGI/Perl script, handled as normal by perl-script and Apache::Registry. Now, this CGI script sometimes returns a page with status something like '403 Forbidden', including full content and full headers. With the old version, the perl_handler function returned with status=0 (OK), even if the HTTP status was going to be 403, and then Apache was quite happy with this. However, in the current combination, the perl_handler function returns with the HTTP status, so that the Apache core adds on its own content. Right, here's a patch. This line of code was erroneously removed some time between version 1.21 and 1.25 of mod_perl. --- Apache.xs~ Tue May 15 14:20:51 2001 +++ Apache.xs Wed May 23 17:18:45 2001 @@ -937,6 +937,7 @@ r-content_type = pstrdup(r-pool, type); send_http_header(r); mod_perl_sent_header(r, 1); +r-status = 200; /* XXX, why??? */ #ifndef PERL_OBJECT An improved comment might help here. The r-status variable is used for two distinct purposes: (1) Once the Perl script has correctly executed (or something like that; the details are really confusing), and until the HTTP header is correctly sent, it is used to indicate the HTTP status code (200 = HTTP_OK, for example). (2) After this, it is used to record the status of the Perl script. The perl_call_handler function in mod_perl.c takes a status value of 200 to mean that everything has gone OK. (3) The HTTP procedures don't need the HTTP status code again after the header has been sent. Therefore, this line of code is necessary to keep the rest of the system correctly functioning. So I'd recommend a comment like: /* mod_perl needs this to say the code has executed correctly */ Julian -- =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- Julian Gilbey, Dept of Maths, Queen Mary, Univ. of London Debian GNU/Linux Developer, see http://people.debian.org/~jdg Donate free food to the world's hungry: see http://www.thehungersite.com/
Re: mod_perl and NES/iPlanet
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Niral Trivedi) wrote: mod_perl can not be used with NES or iPlanet web server, right? We are so much screwed up here with iPlanet but we have to use that for some other reasons.. So, we were exploring the possibilities.. It depends - if you need to run iPlanet as your main server but could run an Apache process as a backend using a proxy, then you could do fine. If you're forbidden from running Apache at all, you're out of luck. ------ Ken Williams Last Bastion of Euclidity [EMAIL PROTECTED]The Math Forum
Re: mod_perl and NES/iPlanet
If you just want to speed up CGI Scripts, Speedy::CGI is a good, supported persistent perl mechansim that plugs in well in an Iplanet WEb Server environment. I think someone did make an NSAPI_PERL but I Don't know how well that is really supported. At 10:21 AM 5/23/01 -0400, Niral Trivedi wrote: All, I know this is stupid question... but I want to confirm this thing from apache/mod_perl Gurus here.. mod_perl can not be used with NES or iPlanet web server, right? We are so much screwed up here with iPlanet but we have to use that for some other reasons.. So, we were exploring the possibilities.. Niral __ Gunther Birznieks ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) eXtropia - The Open Web Technology Company http://www.eXtropia.com/
RE: mod_perl and NES/iPlanet
You are right Gunther We are looking something similar as mod_perl for iPlanet.. basically a way to have perl interpreter running as server process itself... I will look into Speedy::CGI or NSAPI_PERL. Thanks a lot.. Niral -Original Message- From: Gunther Birznieks [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Wednesday, May 23, 2001 10:36 AM To: Niral Trivedi; '[EMAIL PROTECTED]' Subject: Re: mod_perl and NES/iPlanet If you just want to speed up CGI Scripts, Speedy::CGI is a good, supported persistent perl mechansim that plugs in well in an Iplanet WEb Server environment. I think someone did make an NSAPI_PERL but I Don't know how well that is really supported. At 10:21 AM 5/23/01 -0400, Niral Trivedi wrote: All, I know this is stupid question... but I want to confirm this thing from apache/mod_perl Gurus here.. mod_perl can not be used with NES or iPlanet web server, right? We are so much screwed up here with iPlanet but we have to use that for some other reasons.. So, we were exploring the possibilities.. Niral __ Gunther Birznieks ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) eXtropia - The Open Web Technology Company http://www.eXtropia.com/
