see
http://perl.apache.org/guide/porting.html#Exposing_Apache_Registry_secret
and
http://perl.apache.org/guide/porting.html#Sometimes_it_Works_Sometimes_it
HTH
--Geoff
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Andrew Dubry [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> Sent: Monday, May 01, 2000 2:35 PM
> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: sticky variables...
>
>
> first time post here :)....
>
> I'm having a problem with some varibles changing mid-way thru
> the code and
> then back again. I have a program called 'cr' in the mod_perl
> directory.
> It's not a module, it's just a straight cgi script. It uses
> strict. Here's
> a samepl of the code:
>
> my ($cookie_ref,$sid,$cid) = &check_oven_for_cookies($realsid);
>
> print "sid before call: $sid\n";
> &show_form;
> print "sid after call: $sid\n";
>
> here's the sub (which resides inside of 'cr'):
> sub show_form {
> print "inside function: $sid\n";
> .....other stuff....
> }
> ------------
> This 'cr' program gets hit about 5 times a second at peak
> times. About 10%
> of the time when I just keep hitting "reload" on the browser,
> occasionally
> the $sid will be DIFFERENT inside the function. actually it changes to
> someone elses $sid that is presumably running the program at
> the same time.
> But the $sid is always my personal $sid before and after the function.
> that's consistant. it's just when I make the function call
> that seemingly
> at random I get someone else's $sid!
>
> Any ideas? Would it fix things if I converted cr to a module
> and stuck all
> the functions into Cr.pm and just had cr calling the
> functions, passing
> $sid around instead?? I changed all my exit's to Apache::exit
> recently but
> that didn't fix it. I checked for nested subs, but I don't
> have any. Any
> help would be appreciated, :) thanks.
>
> -andrew-
>
