I've been looking at the guts of CGI.pm and noticed how stein calls a subroutine called initialize_globals, which, as the name implies, initializes a bunch of global variables. The purpose of such a routine, I believe, is to counter the caching that occurs with Apache::Registry. Am I right? Would such a routine be necessary for modules run under mod_perl version 2?

What is the best way to maintain mod_perl compatibility (versions 1 & 2) while preventing mod_perl "caching" of data -- when you are designing a module that presents data that should not be from the previous uses of this module? This data can be either user supplied or gleaned from environment variables.

In reply to CGI.pm and mod_perl caching by jacques

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