Dear Monks,

trying to avoid PerlSetVar in httpd.conf (as it's parsed at request time) (performance) I'm contemplating the idea of using custom Apache configuration directives.

After reading the documentation I'm still stuck with a few questions:
When setting parameters in httpd.conf like: 
MyParameter Foo
MyOtherParameter Bar

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1: do I _need_ to specify a sub for MyParameter and MyOtherParameter
2: how do I retrieve the values for these parameters (in my other perl modules)
3: can I use these parameters for replacing .htaccess files (peeking into other httpd modules) for editing configuration parameters at request time ?

In reply to mod_perl - setting globals (and retrieving them), and peeking into other module's configs (avoiding .htaccess) by walinsky

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