On Fri, Jul 27, 2001 at 04:04:54PM -0700, Jeffrey W. Baker wrote:
>
>
> On Fri, 27 Jul 2001, Greg Lontok wrote:
>
> > hello,
> >
> > I recently changed a username/password check script to mod_perl, however
> > when under mod_perl, I noticed that failed logins with the correct username
> > and password combination show the password in the log as Apache=SCALAR(???),
> > i.e. Apache=SCALAR(0x2d9f74). What is mod_perl doing here to my password
> > parameter.
>
> This is a basic Perl question. "Apache=SCALAR(0xcafebabe)" means that the
> thing you printed is scalar reference to an object, blessed into the
> Apache class, and its memory address is 0xcafebabe.
meaning, more or less, somewhere you're doing this --
package Apache;
my $item;
print \$item;
or
use Apache;
my $something = \$Apache::patricularGizmo;
print $something;
or
use Apache;
print Apache->pickAMethod($value,@list); # which returns a scalar ref
or... :}
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