Re: collecting unique client (computer) specific info?

2003-09-03 Thread John Saylor
hi ( 03.09.03 10:42 -0700 ) Stas Bekman: > You mean, you want to generate one? in mod_perl2/apr it'd be: is there an equivalent in mod_perl1? -- \js -- Reporting bugs: http://perl.apache.org/bugs/ Mail list info: http://perl.apache.org/maillist/modperl.html

Re: templating system opinions

2003-07-22 Thread John Saylor
hi ( 03.07.21 17:04 -0500 ) Nigel Hamilton: > At Turbo10 we went for a strict 'no functional elements' in the > template approach. this seems like you're placing a technical limit on your solution. why wouldn't you use the technologies that will solve your problem the best instead of constraining

Re: [RFC] web-messaging application for mod_perl

2003-07-15 Thread John Saylor
hi ( 03.07.14 20:14 -0700 ) Adi Fairbank: > ( I wouldn't want to have any piece of software named after me... just > my personal style. Software lives for too long, especially open > source. It would still be called that long after I'm dead. ) don't be too sure. no one may call it anything at a

Re: how to secure perl modules?

2003-05-30 Thread John Saylor
hi ( 03.05.29 14:25 -0700 ) Kirk Rogers: > but i dont want to send it out without at least making it somewhat > difficult for some hacker to just simply steal it and load it > somewhere else without my consent. why not? have you ever read the GNU manifesto? http://www.gnu.org/gnu/manifesto.html

Re: Obfusacating the source

2002-11-19 Thread John Saylor
Hi ( 02.11.19 19:48 +0100 ) Francesc Guasch: > The idea is get something just a little difficult to > read, so the customer engineers have a hard time if > they try to read the source. Call all variables 1 char names Replace all comments with 'comment here' -- .--- ...

Re: [O] Re: Yahoo is moving to PHP ??

2002-11-01 Thread John Saylor
Hi ( 02.11.01 13:42 -0500 ) Perrin Harkins: > It's not that map is so evil, but rather that I have often seen people > overuse it (especially after a first-reading of "Effective Perl"), and > write confusing code with it by jamming too much into the "map { some > stuff } @list" form. As a former

Re: [OT] Wanted: beginning perl books for poor kids

2002-11-01 Thread John Saylor
Hi ( 02.10.31 21:57 -0800 ) Nick Tonkin: > I'm excited to get them going in perl, and I want to appeal to the list > for donations of books on learning perl. I'd say the best 'books' are all on line. Don't underestimate the [lowly] man pages. Or perldoc [-f]. And there are stories and tutorials

Re: Yahoo is moving to PHP ??

2002-10-30 Thread John Saylor
Hi ( 02.10.30 03:22 -0500 ) Perrin Harkins: > They didn't make their decision on performance though. They seem to > have been most influenced by the idea that perl allows too much > flexibility in coding style, although I can't see how PHP is going to > help with that. Wow, I'd like what *the

Re: Hiding perl code

2002-07-22 Thread John Saylor
Hi ( 02.07.22 10:15 -0400 ) Jon: > At my former employer's, we built an Enterprise Management System out of > mod_perl. He wants to distribute it to clients w/o risking theft of his > code. Well, I'll save the intellectual property rant, but it's going to be very difficult to do. Perl is set up

apache 1.3.24 mod_perl 1.27 perl 5.6.1 segv

2002-06-21 Thread John Saylor
Hi Try as I might, I cannot get apache to run. It just keeps segv-ing. When I run it with -X I can see the failure [with gdb's help] #0 0x401aac25 in __libc_free (mem=0x4039c778) at malloc.c:3155 #1 0x403472c4 in Perl_sv_clear () from /opt/webtree/ww/modules/libperl.so #2 0x403474d5 in Perl_s

Re: URL

2002-06-13 Thread John Saylor
Hi ( 02.06.13 13:34 -0700 ) Rasoul Hajikhani: > Is there a way to read the actual URL typed in the location box of the > browser? javascript [ducks]. I think there's an Apache::URI object where you can get this stuff in a handler. -- \js A study of the science of technology defines what is p

Re: the cookbook review on perl.com

2002-04-26 Thread John Saylor
Hi > -Original Message- > From: Jon Robison [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: Friday, April 26, 2002 9:14 AM > Somebody get this reviewer a grammer checker! ( 02.04.26 09:22 -0400 ) Wiswell, Virginia: > this is a joke, right? No, gramper wants to keep tabs on her. -- \js "incent

Re: [OT] Encrypting Embedded URLs

2002-04-18 Thread John Saylor
Hi ( 02.04.18 17:32 -0500 ) Nigel Hamilton: > I'm looking for a two-way cipher to obfuscate URL parameters > safely and succinctly (not too many extra characters). If you just want to obfuscate, you can do a rot13, with special substitutions for non alpha charachters. Or any other 'roll yo

Re: [ANNOUNCE] The New "mod_perl" logo - results now in...

2002-03-15 Thread John Saylor
Hi ( 02.03.15 10:03 - ) Jonathan M. Hollin: > However, I request your comments on this idea: should we have just one > button (helping to develop a distinct identity for mod_perl) or should > we have several (for choice)? It's up to you... TMTOWTDI, of course- multiple buttons! -- \js

Re: File upload example

2002-03-13 Thread John Saylor
Hi > On Tue, 12 Mar 2002, John Saylor wrote: > > I have found that some browsers put the file in the value matching > > the parameter name instead of putting a file upload object there. ( 02.03.12 18:36 -0500 ) Rich Bowen: > That's not really necessary, as Apache::Re

Re: File upload example

2002-03-12 Thread John Saylor
Hi ( 02.03.12 06:57 -0500 ) Rich Bowen: > Comments welcome, YMMV, Caveat Emptor, and all that. I have found that some browsers put the file in the value matching the parameter name instead of putting a file upload object there. So your code should check the value to see if it is a path AND a one

Re: Where was that success story?

2002-03-06 Thread John Saylor
Hi ( 02.03.06 10:28 -0800 ) Eric Hammond: > I'm part of a small group which recently did something like this, > replacing a major NT/IIS/ASP web site with Linux/Apache/mod_perl/Mason > in 3 months. Dude- write this up! Submit it to Stas, or the perl.org web site. This is good stuff that we *all*

Re: MS+HTML -> Unix

2002-01-23 Thread John Saylor
Hi ( 02.01.23 18:23 + ) Philip M. Gollucci: > Is there anyway I can on the fly take the messed up HTML file I get and > covert it to what they meant to give me. Probably not. You *could* strip out all HTML [and other formatting cruft] and display as text, but I'd guess your 'constituents' wo

the -P switch and modperl

2001-12-06 Thread John Saylor
Hi I haven't used the -P switch too much, but it occurred to me that it might be helpful to use a preprocessor to handle some things [if ( $DEBUG ) {}] instead of relying on run-time logic. Can anyone say anthing meaningful about the interaction of this switch and mod_perl handlers? Is there som

Re: [modperl site design challenge] please vote

2001-12-04 Thread John Saylor
Hi ( 01.12.04 16:39 +0800 ) Stas Bekman: > Thomas Klausner, Allan Juul and Carlos Ramirez have answered the > challenge and submitted their modperl site designs. Thank you folks! I'd like to echo that thanks since all 3 designs are thoughtful and well executed. While a poll is cleaner in a way

Re: [modperl-site design challenge] Thomas Klausner (domm)

2001-11-26 Thread John Saylor
Hi ( 01.11.25 22:37 +0100 ) Thomas Klausner: > You can look at my idea of the the new modperl-site design here: > http://domm.zsi.at/modperl-site-domm/ I like it. The main part of it is now just an elaboration of the contents, I imagine this will be a changing teaser of some sort. > * While th

uploads with Apache::Request failing

2001-09-11 Thread John Saylor
Hi I'm trying to use Apache::Request to upload a file, but it's not working. Here's how I initalize the object: $s = shift; $apr = Apache::Request->new ( $s, DISABLE_UPLOADS => 0 ); And here's the upload code: # using $rv for something beside a return

handler for error log

2001-06-12 Thread John Saylor
Hi Is it possible to put a handler on the error log so that certain elements could be filtered? Ideally, I'd like to keep track of how many times a certain error appears and with a handler that would be a cake walk. So the handler would 'live' between the main httpd process and the file, doing it

Re: avoiding authentication w/ mod_perl

2001-05-10 Thread John Saylor
Hi ( 01.05.10 13:07 -0600 ) Mark Holt: > For my paid users, I would like to offer the option of using > .htaccess files for password protection, but I can't afford to check these > files on every hit, only hits to paid sites. I can determine if the user is > paid with a couple of lines of perl,

authorization and mod_perl

2001-05-09 Thread John Saylor
Hi Perhaps this is obvious, or said somewhere that I haven't looked; but I'm having trouble figuring it out. What I want is for a certain directory tree to be behind an authorization handler; however, the content behind this directory tree consists of handlers and aliases. And the authentication

Re: mod_parrot

2001-04-02 Thread John Saylor
Hi ( 01.04.02 23:48 +1000 ) Rod Butcher: > Does this mean Perl 6 is dogmeat ? No, birdfood. -- \js

Re: [OT] ApacheCon BOF

2001-03-20 Thread John Saylor
Hi ( 01.03.20 10:36 -0500 ) Geoffrey Young: > still need more suggestions for a theme that aren't tongue-in-cheek, > though :) But those are the best ones! And puns and other word play are a part of perl culture! Also, just for my information, who decides on the theme and how do they do it? --

Re: [OT] ApacheCon BOF

2001-03-19 Thread John Saylor
Hi ( 01.03.19 13:35 -0500 ) Geoffrey Young: > In the spirit of things free and fun, I again have a sponsor for mod_perl > T-Shirts for this year's ApacheCon BOF. Any thought of making a extra and selling them off the list for people who can't get to ApacheCon and yet want to proclaim their mod

Re: Looking for a new distro

2001-01-15 Thread John Saylor
Hi ( 01.01.13 12:32 -0800 ) Jamie Krasnoo: > Ok, I've had it with RH 7.0. Too many problems. What Linux distro are some > of you using with Apache 1.3.14 and mod perl 1.24_01? Slackware 7.1 And, I'd also consider making the leap to [Free]BSD. -- \js Milkmen deliver twice a week!

Re: Email (mod_perl) Apache module?

2000-12-15 Thread John Saylor
Hi - Original Message - From: "George Sanderson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Thursday, December 14, 2000 22:47 Subject: RFC: Email (mod_perl) Apache module? > The module would allow the users to read and send email. > Now that would be advocacy;-) No, that would be spam. -- \js

persistent connections for handlers

2000-12-09 Thread John Saylor
Hi I am writing a mod_perl handler that takes a HTTP POST and sends mail. What I'd like to do is to open up a connection to the SMTP server [a Net::SMTP object] and a log file [filehandle] that exist outside of the handler. So that when the handler is run, it has access to these items, and can se

Re: Very WIRED error msg

2000-10-23 Thread John Saylor
Hi > - Original Message - > From: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Argument "OK" isn't numeric. > Argument "OK" isn't numeric. > Argument "OK" isn't numeric. > Argument "OK" isn't numeric. > What that mean ??? Your code is expecting a numeric value [probably 1 or 0] and it's getting a string. Your

Re: Remembering Authentication

2000-10-17 Thread John Saylor
Hi - Original Message - From: "Ian Frawley" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Is it not just possible through a perl module as I am not very clued up on > digital certificates. Well, you have to have some credentials- and if it's not a cookie [bad idea anyway], and if it's not a username/password-

Re: Remembering Authentication

2000-10-17 Thread John Saylor
Hi - Original Message - From: "Ian Frawley" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Is it possible to authenticate a user without having to use the > unfriendly login box provided by browsers, without using cookies? 2 words: digital certificates This probably means a lot of infrastructure [LDAP, CA, sma

Re: Zope functionality under mod_perl

2000-09-28 Thread John Saylor
Hi ( 00.09.28 17:29 -0500 ) Philip Molter: > Recently, one of my co-employees has been messing around with Zope > (http://www.zope.org) and I was wondering if there's a package that > provides similar functionality using mod_perl and Apache rather > than its own web server. That would be mason h