Location Directives and Perl Handlers...

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Hi folks,
Another newbie question:  Does it make sense to create a Location directive
with a Perl Handler for each and every web transaction? I suppose more
information about what the pages are doing would be helpful but I'm really
just looking for some rules of thumb.
I've created a site which uses a Location directive and a Handler for almost
all transactions.  Of course, all the pages are requesting information from
a database and the pages are being generated from a simple templating
scheme.  I just wanted to get a feel whether or not there's other approaches
to this architecture.

Thanks for the replies in advance...
K

Forking another process in Apache?

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A newbie question here...
I have a requirement to spin off a SQL loader process after a web page (a
form which is qualified and accepted) has been submitted.  Does it make
sense, or more importantly, is it dangerous to apply a fork at the end of
a module such as this:


sub handler {
 # do some qualification stuff here and accept the form submission...
 if ($pid = fork) {
  # parent
  # ...whatever i need to accomplish to deliver return html code
  return OK
 } elsif {
  # child
  exec($sql_loader);
 } else {
  # ...whatever i ned to do to recover errors
  return DECLINED
 }

}

Are there any dangers in doing something like this?  Or is there a more
efficient way to accomplish the same thing?

Thanks for the advice,
Kirk

RE: [ANNOUNCE] Apache::UploadMeter-0.15

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So if I have two 
different html forms that perform uploads, can I define two different forms in 
the httpd.conf file?



-Original Message-From: 
Issac Goldstand [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]Sent: Monday, January 
07, 2002 10:08 PMTo: [EMAIL PROTECTED]Subject: [ANNOUNCE] 
Apache::UploadMeter-0.15

  Finally, after a month of being bogged down on [EMAIL PROTECTED], the barriers have being 
  cleared and Apache::UploadMeter's hit CPAN!
  
  The URL http://telia.dl.sourceforge.net/apache-umeter/Apache-UploadMeter-0.15.tar.gzhas 
  entered CPAN as file: 
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  Goldstand)Request entered on: Tue, 08 Jan 2002 06:04:40 GMTRequest 
  completed: Tue, 08 Jan 2002 06:05:08 GMT
   Issac
  

RE: file upload process

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I've tried the HOOK routine but it doesn't appear to work too well.  I'm
most likely doing something wrong but would be interested in seeing your
UploadMeter application. Care to share?

Kirk



-Original Message-
From: Issac Goldstand [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Tuesday, December 04, 2001 8:07 AM
To: Geoffrey Young; [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: file upload process


Also, I'm currently putting the finishing the final touches on a module
called Apache::UploadMeter which automates this process pretty well... Help
is more than welcome - at this point, the internals are really done.  It's
just an issue of making a configuration interface, a bit of documentation,
and sending it to CPAN...

  Issac

- Original Message -
From: Geoffrey Young [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Tuesday, December 04, 2001 17:54
Subject: RE: file upload process




  -Original Message-
  From: El Capitan [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
  Sent: Tuesday, December 04, 2001 10:46 AM
  To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
  Subject: file upload process
 
 [snip]
  Is there some way to capture the download
  stream (when
  its actually downloading) and begin a display process back to
  the customer?
 

 I haven't used it, but recent versions of libapreq support the
UPLOAD_HOOK
 parameter to Apache::Request-new().  see the Apache::Request manpage

 --Geoff