Re: custom directives done using filters

2000-12-08 Thread Jim Winstead
On Dec 09, Robin Berjon wrote: > I feel bad insisting because I know most of you are probably at least as > busy as I am. I posted a message a few days ago > (http://www.geocrawler.com/lists/3/Web/182/200/4787953/) and didn't get a > single answer. I understand if you don't want to read it as it's

Re: Apache::ASP problem with post data

2000-12-08 Thread Joshua Chamas
Luc Willems wrote: > > it seems that the "Content-type" must be > "application/x-www-form-urlencoded" before we can get anything out of > the content() routine from mod_perl :-( > > #Get posted XML query > $len = $Request->{TotalBytes}; > $Request->{asp}->{r}->read($i,$len); > I'll change the

custom directives done using filters

2000-12-08 Thread Robin Berjon
Hi, I feel bad insisting because I know most of you are probably at least as busy as I am. I posted a message a few days ago (http://www.geocrawler.com/lists/3/Web/182/200/4787953/) and didn't get a single answer. I understand if you don't want to read it as it's fairly long. Basically, I'm tryin

Re: Persistent objects between init and content handlers

2000-12-08 Thread Ajit Deshpande
On Fri, Dec 08, 2000 at 03:33:32PM -0800, Perrin Harkins wrote: > On Fri, 8 Dec 2000, Doran L. Barton wrote: > > I've got information stored in a DBI-accessible database. I would like to > > read this information from the database and populate an object with the > > data (really just a tree of has

RE: [certification]

2000-12-08 Thread Gunther Birznieks
At 09:39 AM 12/8/00 -0600, Hill, David T - Belo Corporate wrote: >-Original Message- >From: Gunther Birznieks [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > >"Obviously they still have to be technically interviewed, but in lieu of >someone with or without certification, it's easier to short-list on the >b

Re: STDERR

2000-12-08 Thread Stas Bekman
On Fri, 8 Dec 2000, Aleksandr Vladimirskiy wrote: > Hey I got it. The code was wrong. So now I do an "open (STDERR, > ">&STDOUT");" in the beginning of the external script and a "tie *OUT, > 'Apache';" in the module, then I used backtick to execute so now it > dumps everything to browser. Really

Re: STDERR

2000-12-08 Thread Stas Bekman
On Fri, 8 Dec 2000, Aleksandr Vladimirskiy wrote: > Well I looked at the link on perl.apache.org > (http://perl.apache.org/guide/porting.html#STDIN_STDOUT_and_STDERR_streams), > and it still isn't working. I must be coding wrong. Please take a look > at the code: > > $r->content_type('text/html'

Re: Persistent objects between init and content handlers

2000-12-08 Thread Perrin Harkins
On Fri, 8 Dec 2000, Doran L. Barton wrote: > I've got information stored in a DBI-accessible database. I would like to > read this information from the database and populate an object with the > data (really just a tree of hashes). This database "dump" into the object > should occur at child-init

Persistent objects between init and content handlers

2000-12-08 Thread Doran L. Barton
Okay- Maybe I'm trying too hard here, but, if so, I'd appreciate a slap in the face. Here's the project: I've got information stored in a DBI-accessible database. I would like to read this information from the database and populate an object with the data (really just a tree of hashes). This data

STDERR

2000-12-08 Thread Aleksandr Vladimirskiy
Hey I got it. The code was wrong. So now I do an "open (STDERR, ">&STDOUT");" in the beginning of the external script and a "tie *OUT, 'Apache';" in the module, then I used backtick to execute so now it dumps everything to browser. Really sweet! Thanks Alex -

STDERR

2000-12-08 Thread Aleksandr Vladimirskiy
Well I looked at the link on perl.apache.org (http://perl.apache.org/guide/porting.html#STDIN_STDOUT_and_STDERR_streams), and it still isn't working. I must be coding wrong. Please take a look at the code: $r->content_type('text/html'); $r->send_http_header; open (STDERR, ">&STDOUT"); tie *OUT

Re: mod_perl advocacy project resurrection

2000-12-08 Thread Ask Bjoern Hansen
On Tue, 5 Dec 2000, brian moseley wrote: [...] > consider a scenario in which somebody uses a web interface > to signal an action, which is placed into a message queue. > on the other end of that queue, a service handles the event > with a transaction that spans multiple third tier systems. > >

RE: STDERR

2000-12-08 Thread Doug Brewer
here's my variation on your question (sorry, not much help to you): while you are in a handler and you catch an error, why can't you then $r->print the error message, and return OK immediately? Perl just dies and Apache returns the header when I try this. Doug | From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto

Re: STDERR

2000-12-08 Thread Stas Bekman
On Fri, 8 Dec 2000, Aleksandr Vladimirskiy wrote: > I am sorry, its just my question wasn't on how to do it ("dup STDERR to > STDOUT"), but rather why doing that doesn't work. I have two pieces to > the puzzle an apache module and an external script. I get the errors > from the external script in

Re: STDERR

2000-12-08 Thread Aleksandr Vladimirskiy
I am sorry, its just my question wasn't on how to do it ("dup STDERR to STDOUT"), but rather why doing that doesn't work. I have two pieces to the puzzle an apache module and an external script. I get the errors from the external script in the error_log, so I redirect them in the module or the scr

RE: Concurrenty access to a log file!!!

2000-12-08 Thread Jerrad Pierce
There's not Apache::: API for hooking into logging? AFAIK (which isn't to say much) it seems children pass logging information back to the initial process in some queue, et voila? And that 4k when likely be dependent on the kernel filehandle buffer. Which yes, is 4k on your typical x86... >-

RE: Concurrenty access to a log file!!!

2000-12-08 Thread Stas Bekman
On Fri, 8 Dec 2000, Jerrad Pierce wrote: > If you use Apache's logging facilities (say for level debug). Apache will > handle the concurrency/serializing for you. If I remember correctly only if the size of a single warn/print(STDERR,...) < 4k, if you are talking about manually logging thru STDE

Re: STDERR

2000-12-08 Thread Aleksandr Vladimirskiy
That would have the opposite effect of what I want. I want the errors to go to the browser not the output of the script to the error_log. ??? Alex Jerrad Pierce wrote: > > dup STDOUT to STDERR > > >-Original Message- > >From: Aleksandr Vladimirskiy [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > >Sent: F

RE: STDERR

2000-12-08 Thread Jerrad Pierce
dup STDOUT to STDERR >-Original Message- >From: Aleksandr Vladimirskiy [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] >Sent: Friday, December 08, 2000 5:16 PM >To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >Subject: STDERR > > >Hi, > >I am writing a module that launches a perl script. I would >like the user >to see the error cene

STDERR

2000-12-08 Thread Aleksandr Vladimirskiy
Hi, I am writing a module that launches a perl script. I would like the user to see the error cenerated by the script in the browser. So far I either get the errors sent to the apache error_log or the browser respons that the document contained no data. Please help! Alex --

ssl

2000-12-08 Thread cbell
Hi everyone, does anyone have any suggestions as to which SSL package to use? I'm a little unsure if I should use Mod_ssl or Apache-ssl. I'm currently using Apache 1.3.12 if that helps... Thanks alot!!! - To unsubscribe, e-ma

Re: Concurrenty access to a log file!!!

2000-12-08 Thread Marc Spitzer
I don't know if this helps but when you log something add the process ID to the log message. Then you should be able to trace what process is running what, look at : http://httpd.apache.org/docs/mod/mod_log_config.html#formats to tell you how to set up custom log formats, %p gives you the pid, th

Concurrenty access to a log file!!!

2000-12-08 Thread Edmar Edilton da Silva
Hi all, I have installed on my machine the mod_perl module and exists a lots perl scripts running under mod_perl. I am doing some tests and I need that all call to these perl scripts write in a log file. How can there are a lots scripts running to the same time, I need to control the proc

[JOB] mod_perl folks wanted in Boston - athenahealth.com

2000-12-08 Thread Ed Park
In the spirit of all of this talk about certification, demand for mod_perl programmers, etc., I'd just like to say that I'm looking for programmers. More to the point, I'm looking for kickass folks who just happen to know mod_perl. If you know mod_perl very well, great, but generally speaking, I'

Re: Concurrenty access to a log file!!!

2000-12-08 Thread Stas Bekman
On Fri, 8 Dec 2000, Edmar Edilton da Silva wrote: > Hi all, > > I have installed on my machine the mod_perl module and exists a lots > perl scripts running under mod_perl. I am doing some tests and I need > that all call to these perl scripts write in a log file. How can there > are a lo

RE: Concurrenty access to a log file!!!

2000-12-08 Thread Jerrad Pierce
If you use Apache's logging facilities (say for level debug). Apache will handle the concurrency/serializing for you. You might also look at using syslog >-Original Message- >From: Edmar Edilton da Silva [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] >Sent: Friday, December 08, 2000 2:46 PM >To: [EMAIL PROT

Re: [me too] certification [Was: mod_perl advocacy project resurrection]

2000-12-08 Thread Jay Jacobs
> > On Wed, Dec 06, 2000 at 01:22:26PM -0800, Randal L. Schwartz wrote: > > > > > > I mean, until I can demonstrate that people with certs are likely > > > to get hired faster or make more money, what's the point? As it is > > > now, good mod_perl people are hard enough to find that the > > >

Re: RFC: mod_perl advocacy project resurrection

2000-12-08 Thread Keith G. Murphy
Patrick wrote: > > On Thu, Dec 07, 2000 at 03:52:01PM +0100, Stas Bekman took time to write: > > Your problem is that you try to use the precompiled broken packages > > provided by distros. > > If I can jump... I must say that I *never* had a problem with Debian > packages of mod_perl. Maybe Red

Re: mod_perl advocacy project resurrection

2000-12-08 Thread Keith G. Murphy
Stas Bekman wrote: > > Let me stright things out a bit, so you won't get misleaded by my post as > a marketing call. > > What we want is very simple. > > 1. We want many users, so they will thoroughly test the software and spot > bugs asap, so we -- current users will get a better product. > >

[me too] certification [Was: mod_perl advocacy project resurrection]

2000-12-08 Thread Paul
First, the gratuitous "me, too!" As fair warning, there's little more than that in terms of valid content here, but if you're still interested in reading the rest --- "J. J. Horner" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Wed, Dec 06, 2000 at 01:22:26PM -0800, Randal L. Schwartz wrote: > > > "Gun

Re: [me too] certification [Was: mod_perl advocacy project resurrection]

2000-12-08 Thread Matt Sergeant
On Fri, 8 Dec 2000, Paul wrote: > I would love to be able to list on my resumé that I was Perl and > mod_perl certified. How about publicity in the form of a page listing > certified Perl/modPerl coders on take23, with contact info if they > like? Great for getting those job offers. We will be d

Re: mod_perl advocacy project resurrection

2000-12-08 Thread Matt Sergeant
On Fri, 8 Dec 2000, Stas Bekman wrote: > The real question is for someone to undertake the Safe module and make it > working for mod_perl. I think we have discussed this before. I don't > remember what was the conclusion. That its pretty hard to do, and requires Safe holes to be any use for anyt

Re: mod_perl & IPC under Solaris 7

2000-12-08 Thread Steven Cotton
On Fri, 8 Dec 2000, Mark Doyle wrote: > I suppose the first place to look is to use the Solaris > commands ipcs and ipcrm... Also, I believe you have to > update the kernerl parameters for shared memory. The default > is pretty skimpy. Look at adding things like: > > to /etc/system. Yes, I have

Re: debuggers

2000-12-08 Thread Dave Rolsky
On Fri, 8 Dec 2000, Matt Sergeant wrote: > fatalsToBrowser installs a $SIG{__DIE__} handler, and so prevents you from > properly using eval{} blocks, or nice modules like Error.pm or > Class::Exception (or whichever way around Dave has it this week :-) That's Exception::Class. phhhbbtt! -dave

Re: [ANNOUNCE] new site: scaling mod_perl (+tool: mod_perl + DBD::Oracle)

2000-12-08 Thread Perrin Harkins
> The enterprise mod_perl architectures idea that I posted earlier has evolved > into a slightly modified idea: a 'scaling mod_perl' site: > http://www.lifespree.com/modperl. > > The point of this site will be to talk about & synthesize techniques for > scaling, monitoring, and profiling large, co

Re: perl's memory leak

2000-12-08 Thread Perrin Harkins
On Fri, 8 Dec 2000, Stas Bekman wrote: > If you have linux you have (or can have GTop), which gives you an API to > do this and many other things. Apache::SizeLimit::linux_size_check is just > a custom function that you cannot really re-use (unless you put it into > some other module... Unfortuna

RE: [ANNOUNCE] new site: scaling mod_perl will be movin to the Guide

2000-12-08 Thread Ed Park
I've gotten in touch with Stas, and the 'scaling mod_perl' site will eventually be folded into the Guide. woohoo! I'm going to spend several weeks fleshing it out and cleaning it up before it goes in, though. -Ed -Original Message- From: Perrin Harkins [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: F

Re: debuggers

2000-12-08 Thread Bruce W. Hoylman
> "Matt" == Matt Sergeant <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Matt> On Fri, 8 Dec 2000, Bruce W. Hoylman wrote: >> >> use IO::File; >> use CGI::Carp qw(carpout fatalsToBrowser carp); Matt> Bye bye exception handling. You mean eval{} block exception handling, or something else? W

Re: perl's memory leak

2000-12-08 Thread Stas Bekman
On Fri, 8 Dec 2000, mark warren bracher wrote: > it seems as if most (if not all) the techniques for checking the size of > the current process are _very_ platform specific. on linux you can use > >Apache::SizeLimit::linux_size_check If you have linux you have (or can have GTop), which gi

RE: [ANNOUNCE] new site: scaling mod_perl (+tool: mod_perl + DBD::Oracle)

2000-12-08 Thread Wilt, Paul
Please do make it available. The more examples the better. Paul E Wilt Principal Software Engineer XanEdu, Inc. ( a division of Bell+Howell Information&Learning) http://www.XanEdu.com mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] 300 Nort

Re: RFC: Apache::Thumbnail - Generate image thumbnails on the fly

2000-12-08 Thread Stas Bekman
On Fri, 8 Dec 2000 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Hi - > > Attached is an Apache module to automatically generate & cache thumbnail > images. It uses Image::Magick (http://www.simplesystems.org/ImageMagick/) > and File::Path (CPAN) and runs quickly enough to be useful on my > Apache/mod_perl machine

Re: RFC: mod_perl advocacy project resurrection

2000-12-08 Thread Paul
--- Nathan Torkington <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: [snip] > I'd rather see us find some way to churn out perl and mod_perl > programmers. For instance, release a beginner class on Perl and > mod_perl and have local Perlmongers lead classes. I have my slides > from the University of Perl, which I'

Re: mod_perl & IPC under Solaris 7

2000-12-08 Thread John Siracusa
Here's my long-winded setup. I'm not sure how smart or dumb these settings are, but they work for me on a machine with 1GB or RAM. Note that I had to change the semaphore settings too to get IPC::SharedCache to work without complaint. -John --- * * Shared memory settings changed by John Sirac

IPC Linux -- WAS [Re: mod_perl & IPC under Solaris 7]

2000-12-08 Thread Tom Harper
I have been looking for where I can set this setting in (redhat) linux-- anyone have any pointers? ipcs, ipcrm are there, but i don't have an etc/system. very little documentation on this for linux (or bsd) that i could find. Tom At 06:29 PM 12/8/00 +0100, Steven Cotton wrote: >On Fri, 8 Dec 2

Re: debuggers

2000-12-08 Thread Stas Bekman
On Fri, 8 Dec 2000, Bruce W. Hoylman wrote: > > "Stas" == Stas Bekman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > >> Plus, I *always* use '-w' and '-T' and get them cleanly working > >> during development phases, although I shut them off for actual > >> deployment. > > Stas> 1. You cann

Re: mod_perl & IPC under Solaris 7

2000-12-08 Thread Steven Cotton
Well, I ended up trussing the processes: semop(0, 0xFF0C4E70, 3) Err#28 ENOSPC man semop produces: ENOSPCThe limit on the number of individual processes requesting an SEM_UNDO would be exceeded. So, I thought changing the shminfo_semmnu to a

Re: mod_perl advocacy project resurrection

2000-12-08 Thread Stas Bekman
On Fri, 8 Dec 2000, Keith G. Murphy wrote: > Stas Bekman wrote: > > > > Let me stright things out a bit, so you won't get misleaded by my post as > > a marketing call. > > > > What we want is very simple. > > > > 1. We want many users, so they will thoroughly test the software and spot > > bug

Re: debuggers

2000-12-08 Thread Matt Sergeant
On Fri, 8 Dec 2000, Bruce W. Hoylman wrote: > > "Matt" == Matt Sergeant <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > Matt> On Fri, 8 Dec 2000, Bruce W. Hoylman wrote: > >> > >> use IO::File; > >> use CGI::Carp qw(carpout fatalsToBrowser carp); > Matt> Bye bye exception handling. > > Yo

Re: [ANNOUNCE] new site: scaling mod_perl (+tool: mod_perl +DBD::Oracle)

2000-12-08 Thread Matt Sergeant
On Fri, 8 Dec 2000, Perrin Harkins wrote: > > 1. Performance benchmarking code. In particular, I'm looking for tools > that > > can read in an apache log, play it back realtime (by looking at the time > > between requests in the apache log), and simulate slow & simultaneous > > connections. I've

Re: mod_perl training (was Re: Certification)

2000-12-08 Thread JoshNarins
In a message dated 12/8/00 10:48:13 AM Eastern Standard Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: > > I can't figure out where the "start" and "finish" are with mod_perl > > that would make sense for 80 to 400 people. It's not core techology, > > like the llama. We target the llama as how you would wan

Re: debuggers

2000-12-08 Thread Bruce W. Hoylman
> "Stas" == Stas Bekman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> Plus, I *always* use '-w' and '-T' and get them cleanly working >> during development phases, although I shut them off for actual >> deployment. Stas> 1. You cannot use -T under mod_perl, you should use Stas>PerlT

Re: debuggers

2000-12-08 Thread Stas Bekman
On Fri, 8 Dec 2000, Bruce W. Hoylman wrote: > > "Matt" == Matt Sergeant <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > Matt> On Fri, 8 Dec 2000, Bruce W. Hoylman wrote: > >> > >> use IO::File; > >> use CGI::Carp qw(carpout fatalsToBrowser carp); > Matt> Bye bye exception handling. > >

Re: mod_perl & IPC under Solaris 7

2000-12-08 Thread Mark Doyle
On Friday, December 8, 2000, at 12:10 PM, Steven Cotton wrote: > Anyone here any good with debugging IPC "No space left on device" errors? > I can't find anything on the web or in deja, and am basically at a > loss. Using Storable 0.703 and ShareLite 0.08 I'm getting a lot of the > above erro

mod_perl & IPC under Solaris 7

2000-12-08 Thread Steven Cotton
Hi, Anyone here any good with debugging IPC "No space left on device" errors? I can't find anything on the web or in deja, and am basically at a loss. Using Storable 0.703 and ShareLite 0.08 I'm getting a lot of the above errors when I have around 40 httpd children. Has anyone else used IPC under

Re: debuggers

2000-12-08 Thread Stas Bekman
> > "SB" == Stas Bekman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > SB> 2. 'PerlTaintCheck On' is a must in production!!! not development: > > Huh?!?!?!? It is a must always. You can't develop without it and > then expect it to work with taint checking on at a later time. Of course, sorry for being u

RFC: Apache::Thumbnail - Generate image thumbnails on the fly

2000-12-08 Thread Rufus . Cable
Hi - Attached is an Apache module to automatically generate & cache thumbnail images. It uses Image::Magick (http://www.simplesystems.org/ImageMagick/) and File::Path (CPAN) and runs quickly enough to be useful on my Apache/mod_perl machine. It's my first proper handler, so let me know if there a

Re: debuggers

2000-12-08 Thread Vivek Khera
> "SB" == Stas Bekman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: SB> 2. 'PerlTaintCheck On' is a must in production!!! not development: Huh?!?!?!? It is a must always. You can't develop without it and then expect it to work with taint checking on at a later time. -- =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-

Re: debuggers

2000-12-08 Thread Stas Bekman
> Plus, I *always* use '-w' and '-T' and get them cleanly working during > development phases, although I shut them off for actual deployment. 1. You cannot use -T under mod_perl, you should use PerlTaintCheck instead: http://perl.apache.org/guide/porting.html#Taint_Mode 2. 'PerlTaintCheck On' i

Re: debuggers

2000-12-08 Thread Matt Sergeant
On Fri, 8 Dec 2000, Bruce W. Hoylman wrote: > > "Dave" == Dave Rolsky <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > Dave> On Thu, 7 Dec 2000, martin langhoff wrote: > >> I wonder how do those hardcore guys that develop using handlers > >> debug. Mhhh. They must write 'perlfect' code, I guess,

Re: debuggers

2000-12-08 Thread Bruce W. Hoylman
> "Dave" == Dave Rolsky <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Dave> On Thu, 7 Dec 2000, martin langhoff wrote: >> I wonder how do those hardcore guys that develop using handlers >> debug. Mhhh. They must write 'perlfect' code, I guess, and/or >> understand those cryptic debuggers ...

Re: [BUG] Apache 1.3.14 front-end-back-end weirdness.

2000-12-08 Thread Erdmut Pfeifer
On Fri, Dec 08, 2000 at 07:23:08PM +0400, BeerBong wrote: > Hello! > > I tried to migrate to Apache 1.3.14 from 1.3.12 ... > Heh. > After recompiling apache and starting the server with the same config get > 400 Bad request on any request to mod_perl back-end server. Static html and > images are

Re: Sys::Signal Weirdness

2000-12-08 Thread Bill Moseley
At 04:42 PM 12/08/00 +0100, Stas Bekman wrote: >Easy. Look at $h -- it's a lexically scoped variable, inside the block >if($timeout){}. Of course when the block is over the setting disappears, >when $h gets DESTROYed. Doh! I thought about that (which is why I was printing $h). I shouldn't debu

RE: [certification]

2000-12-08 Thread Steven Vetzal
> You miss the point. > > It's not about credentials in a boolean sense. It's about > probability and > statistics. That's exactly true - in fact I'd go so far to say that the probably and statistics vary for each type of certification. I trust an M.D.'s certification far greater than I trust

WWW and PROXY auth when using Apache as authetifying reverse-proxy

2000-12-08 Thread Jean-Pierre . Morant
Hello all. I'm using Apache's latest version (1.3.14) and it seems I hit a wall someone has met before me. Basically the problem is as follows: - I have a reverse proxy that works just fine thanks to ProxyPass and ProxyPassReverse. Let's call him "rproxy". He "hides" a http server, I'll call "ser

Re: RFC: mod_perl advocacy project resurrection

2000-12-08 Thread bthak
On Fri, 8 Dec 2000, Greg Cope wrote: > > > > > I'd love that. In fact anything that anyone had waiting to go onto > > > PerlMonth please drop a mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] and we'll get you > > > published. (assuming that PerlMonth isn't going to resurrect itself) > > > > Actually its kinda has

Re: mod_perl training (was Re: Certification)

2000-12-08 Thread Richard Dice
"Randal L. Schwartz" wrote: > > But here's the reality of trainings. You need to get 10 to 20 people > in a room at the same time that are all starting roughly at the same > skill level and also want to end up in the same place. And then you > need to do that about 8 to 20 times with the same sl

Re: Sys::Signal Weirdness

2000-12-08 Thread Stas Bekman
On Fri, 8 Dec 2000, Bill Moseley wrote: > This is slightly off topic, but my guess is Sys::Signal is mostly used by > mod_perl people. Can someone else test this on their machine? That's on-topic, Sys::Signal was written by Doug especially for mod_perl :) Its use should go away when 5.6.1 will

RE: [certification]

2000-12-08 Thread Hill, David T - Belo Corporate
-Original Message- From: Gunther Birznieks [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] "Obviously they still have to be technically interviewed, but in lieu of someone with or without certification, it's easier to short-list on the basis of such certification (or some equivalent outstanding thing such

Re: mod_perl training (was Re: Certification)

2000-12-08 Thread J. J. Horner
On Thu, Dec 07, 2000 at 11:06:02PM -0800, Randal L. Schwartz wrote: > I can't figure out where the "start" and "finish" are with mod_perl > that would make sense for 80 to 400 people. It's not core techology, > like the llama. We target the llama as how you would want ANY perl > hacker to spend

[BUG] Apache 1.3.14 front-end-back-end weirdness.

2000-12-08 Thread BeerBong
Hello! I tried to migrate to Apache 1.3.14 from 1.3.12 ... Heh. After recompiling apache and starting the server with the same config get 400 Bad request on any request to mod_perl back-end server. Static html and images are returned ok. Some time was spent for hunting the problem. Turn on rewri

Sys::Signal Weirdness

2000-12-08 Thread Bill Moseley
This is slightly off topic, but my guess is Sys::Signal is mostly used by mod_perl people. Can someone else test this on their machine? I have this weird problem where I'm not catching $SIG{ALRM}. The test code below is a simple alarm handler that looks like this: eval { local $SIG

Re: Certification

2000-12-08 Thread Bakki Kudva
The need for certification is a symptom of different problem, which is that the interview process has become too casual. Interviewers are uncomfortable asking the tought questions so they resort to asking the candidate about his hobbies etc. Many years ago a friend of mine who interviewed for HP t

Re: mod_perl advocacy project resurrection

2000-12-08 Thread Jim Woodgate
Matthew Kennedy writes: > If I were developing an application > which fit well into the two-tier model however, a mod_perl based plan > would be my first preference -- development time is shorter than > JSP/Servlet and maintainability is _at_least_ comparible. I would add that the "java is e

Re: Alliance? WAS -> Re: RFC: mod_perl advocacy project resurrection

2000-12-08 Thread Robin Berjon
At 08:13 08/12/2000 +0800, Gunther Birznieks wrote: >The could be although ActiveState has a product that competes with mod_perl >on the NT side called PerlEx. > >What is too bad about the silence about the relationship is that PerlEx as >a product could really benefit from evolving upon the bac

RE: Protecting the soucecode

2000-12-08 Thread John Reid
Hi Stas Answered this last May http://www.bitmechanic.com/mail-archives/modperl/May1999/0249.html You could also try RJ's Perl Obfuscator (first result from Google searching for perl obfuscator) I haven't tried either of these. We usually print the source code and post it to ourselves via regis

Protecting the soucecode

2000-12-08 Thread Per Moeller
Hi, My boss is constantly complaining about, that the sourcecode for mod_perl script can be read, copied and altered by 3rd party hosting partners for our solutions based on mod_perl. So my question is, are there any way to encrypt or compile mod_perl script, so that they cannot be view by anybo

Re: RFC: mod_perl advocacy project resurrection

2000-12-08 Thread Greg Cope
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > On Thu, 7 Dec 2000, Matt Sergeant wrote: > > > > > I'd love that. In fact anything that anyone had waiting to go onto > > PerlMonth please drop a mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] and we'll get you > > published. (assuming that PerlMonth isn't going to resurrect itself) >

Test -- Please Ignore

2000-12-08 Thread darren chamberlain
-- Half of all epigrams exaggerate, and this is one of them. - To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: RFC: mod_perl advocacy project resurrection

2000-12-08 Thread Gunther Birznieks
The mod_perl programmer has no hair left. :) At 11:19 AM 12/8/2000 +, harilaos wrote: >One simple question please. > >How do you differentiate between perl programmers amd Mod_perl >programmers? > >Thanks > >Stas Bekman wrote: > > > > > > I've dropped my last job, in order to finally finish

Re: [ANNOUNCE] new site: scaling mod_perl (+tool: mod_perl + DBD::Oracle)

2000-12-08 Thread Tim Bunce
On Fri, Dec 08, 2000 at 05:47:00AM -0500, Ed Park wrote: > > So far, I've written up a basic scaling framework, and I've posted a > particular development profiling tool that we wrote to capture, time, and > explain all SQL select queries that occur on a particular page of a mod_perl > + DBD::Ora

Re: [ANNOUNCE] new site: scaling mod_perl (+tool: mod_perl + DBD::Oracle)

2000-12-08 Thread Gerald Richter
> 2. Caching techniques. I know that this is a topic that has been somewhat > beaten to a pulp on this list, but it keeps coming up, and I don't know of > any place where the current best thinking on the subject has been > synthesized. I haven't used any caching techniques yet myself, but I intend

Re: RFC: mod_perl advocacy project resurrection

2000-12-08 Thread Stas Bekman
On Fri, 8 Dec 2000, harilaos wrote: > One simple question please. > > How do you differentiate between perl programmers amd Mod_perl > programmers? If you are in a public transportation and you happen to overhear this kind of discussion: "...all children were running and refused to respond. I'

Re: RFC: mod_perl advocacy project resurrection

2000-12-08 Thread harilaos
One simple question please. How do you differentiate between perl programmers amd Mod_perl programmers? Thanks Stas Bekman wrote: > > > > I've dropped my last job, in order to finally finish the mod_perl book, > > > have some rest and make a push to mod_perl. > > > > > > > Well best of luck &

Re: [ANNOUNCE] new site: scaling mod_perl (+tool: mod_perl +DBD::Oracle)

2000-12-08 Thread Stas Bekman
On Fri, 8 Dec 2000, Ed Park wrote: > The enterprise mod_perl architectures idea that I posted earlier has evolved > into a slightly modified idea: a 'scaling mod_perl' site: > http://www.lifespree.com/modperl. Ed, this is all cool, but is it possible that we put this on one of the public sites?

[ANNOUNCE] new site: scaling mod_perl (+tool: mod_perl + DBD::Oracle)

2000-12-08 Thread Ed Park
The enterprise mod_perl architectures idea that I posted earlier has evolved into a slightly modified idea: a 'scaling mod_perl' site: http://www.lifespree.com/modperl. The point of this site will be to talk about & synthesize techniques for scaling, monitoring, and profiling large, complicated m

Re: Help needed with MAP expression

2000-12-08 Thread Matt Sergeant
On Thu, 7 Dec 2000, bari wrote: > Hi there, > Can any one help me what this MAP function does... > > map(/^[\.\d]+$/ ? td({-align=>'right'}, $_) : td($_), @$_) $_ contains an array ref. It loops through each entry in the array ref. If the entry is a number (by the above regexp's naive view of n

Re: Response time under mod_perl

2000-12-08 Thread Stas Bekman
On Fri, 8 Dec 2000, Edmar Edilton da Silva wrote: > Hi all, > > I need to know the response time of a Perl script running under > mod_perl. To do this I need a function that it's returns the current time > of the system in milliseconds. Please, have anyone any idea what function I ca

Re: Strange problem with IE 5

2000-12-08 Thread ek
> > The record in access_log: > > > > 192.168.2.11 - - [date] "GET /file.htm HTTP/1.1" 200 8731 "-" > > "Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 5.01; Windows NT 5.0")" > > what's in your error_log? [Fri Dec 8 11:14:00 2000] [info] created shared memory segment #256 [Fri Dec 8 11:14:00 2000] [notice] Ap