in reply to Apache2 Frustrations

Why do you insist on a handler? Unless you're going to be doing interrupting the request/response chain (special stuff), you don't need a handler.

Simply use ModPerl::Registry as your handler (basically Apache::Registry for mod_perl2) and be done with it without changing your script at all (given that it is Apache::Registry compatible, that is no __END__ section ... easy).

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Re: Re: Apache2 Frustrations
by dragonchild (Archbishop) on Nov 21, 2003 at 20:44 UTC
    Because I will be using the request/response chain in the near future. I want to do a lot of filtering of input and output and I need my stuff to be in handlers in the first place. (At least, that's my understanding.)

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      I want to do a lot of filtering of input and output and I need my stuff to be in handlers in the first place.

      I don't think that is necesary anymore. The filtering stuff is much more powerful in mod_perl2 (mainly because of the underlying changes to Apache2).

      In mod_perl1 you could only filter responses generated in mod_perl with a mod_perl filter (using Apache::Filter or one of the other chaining modules).

      In mod_perl2, you can write a filter in perl that can parse the output of any other apache module. In fact, mod_include is now also written specifically as a filter. So as an example, you could have a Java servlet whose output is filtered though mod_include, and then filtered again through a mod_perl2 filter.

      See the mod_perl2 Filter docs for more info.

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