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Do I have one handler that dispatches the report based on some HTTP param? Or, should I have an entry in httpd.conf for each report, ...
Whatever floats your boat. http://server/foo/bar/ maybe easier to remember for users than http://server/foo?bar or http://server/foo?op=bar the same way that http://search.cpan.org/dist/DistName/ is is easier for me to remember than http://search.cpan.org/search?mode=dist&query=DistName

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Re: Re: Setting up mod_perl handlers
by mpeppler (Vicar) on Nov 21, 2003 at 15:30 UTC
    You can still use the path_info() information and not use the query string at all.

    F.ex. I have an archive for the Sybperl-l mailing list here. The mod_perl handler looks like this: 

    <Location /archive>
SetHandler perl-script
PerlHandler My::Archive
</Location>

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    However, the "My::Archive" module understands things like: http://www.peppler.org/archive/sybperl-l/2003/11/7567.html by doing the following: 
    sub handler {
    my $r = shift;

    my $path = $r->path_info();
    my $q = Apache::Request->new($r);

    my $dbh = getDataBaseHandle();

    $path =~ s/\.html$//;
    my ($junk, $list, $year, $mon, $msg) = split(/\//, $path);
    if(!$year) {
        displayYears($q, $dbh, $list);
    } elsif(!$mon) {
        displayMonths($q, $dbh, $list, $year);
    } elsif(!$msg) {
        displayMsgs($q, $dbh, $list, $year, $mon);
    } else {
        displayMessage($q, $dbh, $list, $year, $mon, $msg);
    }
}

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    ... and yes, the mail archive is stored in a Sybase database.

    Michael

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