mod_perl 2, apache 2, On Fedora Core 5

In my perl-HTML-Mason.conf: 

PerlOptions +GlobalRequest
PerlModule Apache2::Request
PerlModule Apache2::Const

PerlSetVar MasonArgsMethod mod_perl

....

<FilesMatch "(\.mas|handler)$">
    SetHandler perl-script
    PerlHandler "sub { return Apache2::Const::NOT_FOUND; }"
</FilesMatch>

<FilesMatch "^(\.)">
    SetHandler perl-script
    PerlHandler "sub { return 404; }"
</FilesMatch>

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Problem: 

I want to send a 404 (not found) error back to the browser when any ".*" or "*.mas" or "*handler" files are requested.  The example in the Mason book is for mod_perl v1 and so far, I haven't been able to find a working example of how to send the 404 return code using Apache2::Const in an apache .conf file. 

Has anyone gotten this to work?

thanks :)

Update:

I got it to work by removing the "PerlModule Apache2::Const" line and loading the module directly in the anonymous subroutine. Thanks to perrin for pointing out the PerlResponseHandler (PerlHandler is deprecated in mod_perl 2). 

<FilesMatch "(\.mas|handler)$">
    SetHandler perl-script
    PerlResponseHandler "sub { use Apache2::Const; return Apache2::Con
+st::NOT_FOUND }"
</FilesMatch>

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Jason L. Froebe

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In reply to Perl Mason & Apache: getting Apache2::Const to work by jfroebe

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