kevin montuori wrote:
> In my experience (two or so years with DBIC/Catalyst and many, many
> more with sundry DBI hacks) DBIC code has proven trivial to maintain
> and augment. Furthermore, it's relatively easy to find programmers
> who are familiar with it and can be brought up to speed quickly.
Merlyn Kline wrote:
> I propose that all references
> to the req->param() interface should be replaced by references to the
> $c->req->parameters->{} interface except where explicit discussions
> of CGI.pm compatability are appropriate, which would only be very
> briefly in the case of the Intro.
Dermot wrote:
> Why wouldn't you, as you write, use the the fastest access methods
> available? Surely you'd want to develop habits that will a) provide
> better performance and b) as mentioned below avoid the thorny
> side-effects of req->params(). This isn't a matter of premature
> optimisation b
Oleg Pronin wrote:
> Maybe it is not the bottleneck, but how many places do we have
> like this that are "not a bottleneck" ? maybe the sum of all these
> "mini" mistakes is the bottleneck ?
NYTProf profile or it didn't happen :-)
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I'm not sure what the 50%/51% good bit means - this isn't clear. Maybe
replace this with "X users marked this as a favourite" - no point in
allowing people to vote down ;)
Would probably work better displayed Digg style (plus_votes - minus_votes)
rather than having 50% as the default.
If
The site looks nice, but I find it a little "bloatware" to talk of 40+
sites, when it's obvious that a good part of them share the same layout
and codebase and only differ in the content.
That would actually be my "fault", as I added those sites.
The aim is to create a list of public facing we
Is the Guardian run on Catalyst?
No, not exactly sure what they're using but I believe they've gone down the
Java route.
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Not sure which specific engine you asked, but I'll just put all of them.
He meant Catalyst engine... Catalyst::Engine::?
Were you using the server script that comes with Catalyst? FastCGI?
mod_perl?
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Just a quick thought - are you setting appropiate no-cache headers in your
responses? Are the problems due to transparent caching at ISPs?
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As for down-stream proxies, I am not explicitly setting no-cache headers
from the app, should I be?
<
You might want to look into it. I've had problems with aggressive ISP caches
before where they cached pages and sent them to other users - every page has
"welcome username" at the top. Th
Aristotle Pagaltzis wrote:
> http://yourapp.example.org/addressbook/delete/all";>
>
> into a page they control and then send a link to that page to
> your users. If you allow destructive actions on GET, you have
> just allowed for your users to be screwed over through no fault
> of their own.
Neo [GC] wrote:
> Currently, our project allocates 330MB RAM right after startup (with
> myproject_server.pl or fastcgi).
What OS?
Where do you get the 330MB figure from?
> Over the time this is getting worse;
> some month after the projects start it used about 80MB and we think
> with some addi
Devin Austin wrote:
> you could simply create a column and add the GMT offset.
NO!
If you only use GMT offsets you'll just annoy your users anywhere in the
world that has DST. If that's the only solution don't bother - just use a
relevant fixed timezone.
Much better to use the Olsen DB timezon
I think that the mod_perl mailing list would also be interested in this -
there are very few people on that list with practical examples of
multi-thread. As far as I'm aware pre-fork is still pretty much the only
model recommended.
Alejandro Imass wrote:
> Ok. What would you have done? - not me
> One of the limitations of mod_perl is that you can't run the same app
> more than once on the same server. Sorry.
Not true. We run multiple versions of the same app in the same apache
process.
Look at the +Parent option, which will create additional separate perl
interpreters within the same
Mihai Bazon wrote:
> Let me clarify that. I don't want to run the app more than once. I
> just want the application to switch configuration file and database
> depending on the hostname that each particular request targets.
>
> I've done this a zillion times with plain mod_perl, I just don't know
Toby Corkindale wrote:
> (CentOS 5 was one of the operating systems that came with the
> badly-patched Perl with the slow bless performance..
> although I'm sure it's been patched by now?
> ie. http://blog.vipul.net/2008/08/24/redhat-perl-what-a-tragedy/
> )
Was patched last year - stop spreading
Tobias Kremer wrote:
> So, what's a better way to find out how much memory is shared? On our
> production servers "top" shows
>
> VIRT: 70116, RES: 64m, SHR: 3480
>
> and I hope that 3480 is really not the amount of memory that is shared
> because that'd be quite low.
It's a different type of sha
Aristotle Pagaltzis wrote:
> # everything should be bytes at this point, but just in case
> $response->content_length( bytes::length( $response->body ) );
>
> I was shocked to discover this! Any code that uses bytes::length
> is automatically broken.
Not in this case, the HTTP spec says th
Aristotle Pagaltzis wrote:
> But there’s no room for “likelies” here: that’s programming by
> coincidence.
The "likely" was correct.
When using UTF-8 whether the length of the string is different in bytes and
characters depends entirely on what the contents of the string are. Given a
particular
Jens Schwarz wrote:
> in my Catalyst application I use Webservices to connect to SAP. One
> of these returns "binary" data (right now base64-encoded XML, later
> also PDF).
>
> Is it possible to determine the MIME type of those returned
> (sub)strings? If so, how?
It doesn't matter that you're usi
Tomohiro Hosaka wrote:
> Is this correct result?
Yes, the previous situation was a bug. Given
sub foo : Args(1) {
my ($c, $arg) = @_;
};
The URL http://127.0.0.1/foo/bar%2Fbaz would match and set $arg to 'bar/baz'
correctly. However reversing that using uri_for then returns the incorrect
UR
Tobias Kremer wrote:
> c) somebody smarter than me has a better idea how to solve this
> problem? :)
Use Varnish as a caching-proxy in front-of your app. Use ESI to include the
fragments and set appropiate cache-control headers in those reponses so
Varnish can cache appropiately.
Carl
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Adam Mackler wrote:
> Finally, a wonderful benefit of using fastcgi is that each one of my
> fastcgi applications runs as a separate user, and none of those
> fastcgi users is the user that the web server runs as. I sleep that
> much better at night knowing that the web server cannot read the file
Another mod_perl user here! I've looked at FastCGI, but ongoing management
has always looked to be more complecated than just altering the apache
config.
We have a multi-server setup with hardware load-balancers. They balance
between two threaded apache servers which serve all static files and
Hi,
This may be more of a DBIx::Class question than Catalyst, but anyway.
I have a system where the bulk of the content is generated elsewhere in XML
format, I've implemented a Catalyst Model that reads the XML, and returns a
blessed perl data structure (with appropriate caching etc.)
Where
I would like to announce that www.manchestereveningnews.co.uk has just
been relaunched using Catalyst and mod_perl.
Further to my original email, we've now finished rolling out our Manchester
newspaper sites onto Catalyst.
a.. Accrington Observer www.accringtonobserver.co.uk
b.. The Asian N
It's probably useful to tell you what these various commands are actually
doing, rather than just saying check-this and check-that...
lsof = LiSt Open Files
basically it lists every file that a process has open, that includes the
executable file itself and any libraries or shared code. The b
jagdish eashwar wrote:
I am getting only the last value in the tt2 template.
You're actually getting the number of items in the list, because that's
what you get when you turn a list into a single value.
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Li
I've got LDAP authentication working with Apache. Is there an
authentication method that simply takes over the username and password
that Apache got from the user?
I believe Apache stores the user name from its auth in the REMOTE_USER env
var.
Or if you're using mod_perl you should be able to
So if I want to run multiple versions of the same app it looks like I'll
have to do it on Apache with cgi/fcgi because mod-perl won't let you have
competing stuff in the same namespace.
We run 17 versions of the same app for 17 different sites on different
domains.
The only thing we do do is
from the context object, but is unavailable to MyApp.pm. cookie_domain
Both the context object and the hostname should be available to code within
MyApp.pm, but only if the code is running during a request.
In any case I wouldn't point multiple domains at the same site, you're
always best o
From: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
How would you propose handling an ASP like service that is branded (both
host whatever.companya.com ... othersuch.company9.com, and templates)
for 1 companies?
You should've a bit further down to where I wrote:
That said, there's a case for needing to know t
cookie_domain => the_host()
in the MyApp config, but when I try to start the server it gives an error
telling that I can't use the method "req" because $c is undefined.
I'd be curious about why you wanted the cookie domain in the config anyway!
I presume you've got a bit of code like:
$c->res
my $rsts = $c->model ('MintAppDB::TransSum')->find ({
category => $c->req->param ('category'),
sentto => $c->req->param ('sentto'),
iso => $c->req->param ('iso')
});
This is broken! Simply try requesting a
I'd love to help write more docs. What format do I use
POD
and who do I submit them to?
I'd suggest starting on the catalyst-dev list.
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My site is accessed with 2 different domain names, and the app must send a
cookie that specify a domain, because otherwise Firefox doesn't send the
cookie back to the server.
I've given you an answer to that problem once. Redirect domain2.com to
domain1.com and only serve your site through dom
I foresee index and default going the fuck away for 5.80 unless you're in
compat mode.
I'm curious about these two.
I've made plenty of use of index, and off the top of my head can't see
another way of doing the home page of site.
As far as default, I'd currently use that to do my 404 handli
You may want to deliver somewhat different content depending on which URL
they use; is that what you mean by 'white-labelled'?
By white labelling I mean the same functionality and data wrapped up in
different branding like:
http://www.stockportexpress.co.uk/news/s/1033042_wii_posing_injury_ri
I could use Apache Basic Authentication, but I would prefer to hold
usernames passwords in a database rather than a htpasswd file.
I realise that you've been given an all-Cat solution for this however I just
want to point out that just because you're using Basic Auth in Apache,
doesn't mean th
Our sysadmin told me that this way is better because we won't make traffic
(and slow down) on the public network interface.
Marginal, you'd need to be doing *a lot* of data transfer. I think our data
transfer at our ISP maxes out at around 12Mbps on an average lunch time -
well below the 100Mp
Interesting term, 'white labelling'; where do you get it from.
It's a fairly standard term for the process. One origin I've come across is
it comes from manufacturers selling products with plain white labels to
supermarkets, who would then brand them as own-brand products. However these
day
Hi,
I've been playing around with the LDAP stuff in Catalyst, we have a need to
share user data externally for authentication reasons and currently believe
LDAP is a good solution for this.
To this end I've got C:P:Auth:Store:LDAP correctly authenticating users
against a LDAP database. I've
Oh another LDAP subject that I meant to mention - LDAP Injection. It's
something that's been mentioned regarding our use of LDAP.
For example C:P:Auth:Store:LDAP suggests using a filter like:
(&(objectClass=posixAccount)(uid=%s))
Then does:
$filter =~ s/\%s/$replace/g;
Which on a casual gla
Externally in your organisation?
No to an external organisation that has been contracted by us to provide and
host a web application. This application needs to share a single sign-on
with applications built in-house using Catalyst.
For configuration, why don't you have one set and reference
From: "Gavin Henry" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Ah, ok. What Directory server are you using btw?
openldap
Carl
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From: "Jonathan Rockway" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
If you are using the same Apache process for more than one web
app, You're Doing It Wrong (tm).
For development or production?
In production as long as you're using the same versions of Cat for your
apps, I would've thought the memory gains would m
4. Is it just crazy to run a load balanced setup without some type of
sticky session setup on the proxy? If so, any implementations of this
using Apache 2.x mod_proxy(_balancer) as the frontend would be greatly
appreciated.
<
You should only use "sticky sessions" as a performance enhancer (
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