Re:

1999-10-03 Thread Tom Christiansen
>> Does anyone now what that server error suggests: >> >> Insecure $ENV{PATH} while running with -T switch at >> /home/web/perl/contact.pl line 46. >I don't know the "real" answer to your problem, as I don't see >$ENV{PATH} being referenced anywhere in your above code. % man perlsec ... Cle

Seeking volunteer to providing mailing list summaries

1999-11-10 Thread Tom Christiansen
Is there anyone on this mailing list who would be willing to volunteer to provide the world with a periodic summary of what major topics were discussed on this mailing list? The idea is to follow in the footsteps of Mark-Jason Dominus's excellent p5p weekly summaries at http://www.perl.com/pub/q/

Re: using function prototypes w/ mod_perl and Apache::Registry

1999-01-16 Thread Tom Christiansen
On Thu, 18 Nov 1999 12:12:16 -0800 Jeff Elo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote using Mozilla 4.7 [en] (X11; I; Linux 2.2.5-15 i686) in <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: >I am currently helping some friends convert their site over to mod_perl, >and they are experiencing some problems due to the fact that they

Re: using function prototypes w/ mod_perl and Apache::Registry

1999-01-16 Thread Tom Christiansen
>> I don't suppose that suggesting that context coercion templates might >> not really be all they're cracked up to be is apt to get your very far? :-) >> >Tried that. They are newly converted C programmers, and are unwilling to >give them up. Ah, *that* old problem again. Tell them "Perl does

Re: using function prototypes w/ mod_perl and Apache::Registry

1999-01-16 Thread Tom Christiansen
>Tried that. They are newly converted C programmers, and are unwilling to >give them up. There are scary things in here about prototypes as well. --tom --- Forwarded Message From: Tom Christiansen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Re: Conditionally use modules (use

Re: Another IE5 complaint

1999-11-23 Thread Tom Christiansen
>Are you going to >complain about all the 404 errors in your log, or are you going to use a >simple RewriteRule to give people the information they are seeking? Well, in the Microsoft case, I'd probably dynamically rewrite the link to file:///dev/mouse or file:///dev/zero, if that made any sense

Re: reads everything as one line

1999-11-26 Thread Tom Christiansen
On Wed, 24 Nov 1999 22:33:55 -0800 "John S. Evans" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: >> From: "Eric L. Brine" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >> >> A few days ago, someone mentioned doing >> $scalar = >> read the whole POSTed data. >I was the guy :) >Strange, because the "Writing

Re: HTTP_REFERER is gone under Mod_Perl and EmbPerl!

1999-12-06 Thread Tom Christiansen
>The environment variable HTTP_REFERER is not in my scripts' CGI >environment. >I tried both regular Perl and Mod_Perl and it doesn't show up >anywhere. I've searched the Net for any mention of this and found >none. >Can anyone give me a hand on how to debug this? I don't imagine they fin

Re: [admin] NO HTML posts please!

2000-03-30 Thread Tom Christiansen
>how about avoiding the me toos... [44 lines of crud we've already seen before] Hm... something wrong's with that message... % msgchk `mhpath cur` Quote follows response, Jeopardy style #2 Overquoted: 30 lines quoted out of 41: 73% Non-canonical signature separator: `--

Re: what's the apache mod_perl speedup factor?

2000-03-31 Thread Tom Christiansen
>tom, my direct reply to you bounced, but this should probably be on the >list anyhow... > - Transcript of session follows - >... while talking to mail.perl.com.: MAIL From:<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> ><<< 550 Your site is blacklisted as a spam haven. >554 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>... Service una

Re: what's the apache mod_perl speedup factor?

2000-03-31 Thread Tom Christiansen
>IO provides a needed, though costly, OO interface to >most system calls. Huh? No, it doesn't. --tom

Re: what's the apache mod_perl speedup factor?

2000-03-31 Thread Tom Christiansen
>> Huh? No, it doesn't. >I stand corrected. OO interface to _many_ _I/O_ system calls. >Better, or do you object to the "needed" part? Rather. It's nearly completely gratuitous. --tom

Re: what's the apache mod_perl speedup factor?

2000-03-31 Thread Tom Christiansen
Let me be more descriptive. IO.xs has some useful features. Most of the IO::*.pm modules do not, especially Handle and File. Here's all you need from the low-level IO.xs stuff, the things that aren't in straight Perl (although some can be done, but less conveniently): require IO::Handle;

Re: [PATCH 5.6.0] local $SIG{FOO} restoration

2000-03-30 Thread Tom Christiansen
>i suppose the handler should not be restored if it was Perl's, something >along the lines of (on top of take2 patch): Exactly! this kind of thing is common in programs that do sigmasks or tty mode masks. The typical mistake is set noecho do something unset noecho or block sig

Re: mod_perl cookbook

2000-04-04 Thread Tom Christiansen
>This is by no means meant to replicate information readily >available in other resources such as the _Perl Cookbook_, the >Eagle book, or Stas's mod_perl Guide. This is meant to compliment >them. Compliments are always appreciated. Complements might work better for the general public, tho