Re: Application_OnStart not getting called

2004-03-09 Thread Josh Chamas
Warren Young wrote: More accurately, the new event would be for calculating something when the web server first comes up. Apache::ASP does not know what applications are installed when the web server first comes up. That is what the Loader() routine is for. Loader() combined with this new event

Re: Application_OnStart not getting called

2004-03-09 Thread Warren Young
Josh Chamas wrote: This is a good point, and was the basis for the original implementation, that the application starts when the first visitor registers a session. This was the definition of the original Application_OnStart event in the ASP model. That's reasonable. If I understand things correct

RE: Application_OnStart not getting called

2004-03-09 Thread John Drago
eter Galbavy | Cc: Warren Young; Apache-ASP List | Subject: Re: Application_OnStart not getting called | | Peter Galbavy wrote: | > Warren Young wrote: | > | >>If the current behavior is useful for others, then it might be nice to | >>have a new event that has the behavior I expe

Re: Application_OnStart not getting called

2004-03-09 Thread Josh Chamas
Peter Galbavy wrote: Warren Young wrote: If the current behavior is useful for others, then it might be nice to have a new event that has the behavior I expected. No rush, this is mostly a syntax issue. (Reasoning below.) The top priority is simply to document the actual behavior of Application

Re: Application_OnStart not getting called

2004-03-08 Thread Peter Galbavy
Warren Young wrote: > If the current behavior is useful for others, then it might be nice to > have a new event that has the behavior I expected. No rush, this is > mostly a syntax issue. (Reasoning below.) The top priority is simply > to document the actual behavior of Application_OnStart. The

Re: Application_OnStart not getting called

2004-03-08 Thread Warren Young
Josh Chamas wrote: Currently, Application_OnStart only runs when the first Session gets initialized, and again after the last Session expires. Theoretically, this could never happen if your application is always busy. A big difference between Apache::ASP, and IIS/ASP is that sessions persist by d

Re: Application_OnStart not getting called

2004-03-05 Thread Josh Chamas
John Drago wrote: I could formalize this to also | execute some code when the compilation occurs, and this event then | might be called: | |Global_OnStart Would BEGIN {...} take care of this? BEGIN should work, but I think Global_OnStart would be more like putting some code at the botton of

RE: Application_OnStart not getting called

2004-03-05 Thread John Drago
: Warren Young; Apache-ASP List | Subject: Re: Application_OnStart not getting called | | Peter Galbavy wrote: | > Josh Chamas wrote: | > | >>I have had requests to allow for the Application_OnStart to run when | >>the web server first starts up. This would be fairly had to do, b

Re: Application_OnStart not getting called

2004-03-05 Thread Josh Chamas
Peter Galbavy wrote: Josh Chamas wrote: I have had requests to allow for the Application_OnStart to run when the web server first starts up. This would be fairly had to do, but it might be possible. The requests for this have been sporadic, and it has never been one of my top priorities, should

Re: Application_OnStart not getting called

2004-03-05 Thread Peter Galbavy
Josh Chamas wrote: > I have had requests to allow for the Application_OnStart to run when > the web server first starts up. This would be fairly had to do, but > it might be possible. The requests for this have been sporadic, and > it has never been one of my top priorities, should it be? Server

Re: Application_OnStart not getting called

2004-03-05 Thread Josh Chamas
Warren Young wrote: What I've been trying to do is not dramatically different from that. I've been trying to save a calculated value to $Application->{foo}, and print it out later in some of the .asp files. Its failure to work is what prompted my original post. Currently, Application_OnStart o

Re: Application_OnStart not getting called

2004-03-05 Thread Warren Young
John Drago wrote: Make absolutely sure Apache::ASP is finding your global.asa to start with. All the other events I have in there are being called. PerlSetVar Global "/path" I had mine set to '.', with global.asa at the site's root. I tried setting it to the site root's absolute path, but the

RE: Application_OnStart not getting called

2004-03-04 Thread John Drago
m] office ::  303.790.7940 x25 email :: [EMAIL PROTECTED] E - b u s i n e s s   w i t h   D i m e n s i o n TM | -Original Message- | From: Warren Young [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] | Sent: Thursday, March 04, 2004 1:32 AM | To: Apache-ASP List | Subject: Application_OnStart not getting

Application_OnStart not getting called

2004-03-04 Thread Warren Young
I have some code I'd like to run just once when Apache::ASP comes up the first time; it computes a value that never changes over the life of the application. For some reason, this event never seems to be called. I dug into the Apache::ASP code a bit, and the only thing that struck me is how de