I'm thinking of mod_perl as a set of Perl objects to help you deal with passing stuff around an Apache application. My thinking is wrong, but it hasn't mattered until now.

I've spent the last several years dealing with mod_perl on a daily basis, yet haven't hit a point yet where I've needed to know more about the internals than the simple cook-book recipies and how to set up a Mason handler that deals with virtual hosts nicely.

What I'm really noticing now is a lack of documentation for mid-level mod_perl stuff. The things I'm trying to do seem a little more advanced than general mod_perl stuff, but nothing that should require delving into the C and XS code. All of my searching has come up with stuff that's either geared more towards getting started with mod_perl or turning around and doing actual tweaking of the mod_perl engine itself.

Thanks for the help on this, by the way. It's been most illuminating.

In reply to Re^4: Subclassing Apache::Request? by tadamec
in thread Subclassing Apache::Request? by tadamec

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