Greetings,


...
in fact non-trivial CGI applications tend to break if you
run them under mod_perl (lifespans of variables are quite different).
...
As the developer of a non-trivial CGI/mod_perl app, I beg to disagree. Aside from a few traps due to the way Apache::Registry namespaces compiled scripts - and which are easily avoided by a sane use of modules - I find that properly coded CGI does live a comfortable life under mod_perl.

I suspect that your observation (as the one below about CGI being of no use in the real world) stem mostly from the unfortunate fact that so many CGI apps are sorry, crappy pieces of code assembled by not very experienced programmers working from cut & paste and hearsay.


Cheers,
alf

You can't have everything: where would you put it?

In reply to Re: Re: How do you feel about mod_perl? by alien_life_form
in thread How do you feel about mod_perl? by princepawn

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