I originally implemented a REST interface to my web application using the mod_rewrite rule and this worked fine for GET operations (list available projects, show project detail) but did not work for POST operations (upload a file to a project). Since I used the CGI::Application framework to build the web app, I thought I'd use CGI::Application::Plugin::Apache::Request to create a request handler as an alternative solution.

This module requires Apache2::Request, a module I'm not familiar with. Among many other things, the documentation says

This is a potential problem, because my web application already happily does file uploads using CGI.

Well, I gave the module a shot anyway, and using cpan install Apache2::Request the process died with 

build/version_check.pl failed: \
no version_string found in '' for 'apache2'.

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at the end. I'm not really sure what this means. I have Apache 2.2.3 installed: 
[Thu Jan 03 13:02:12 2008] [info] Server: Apache/2.2.3, \
Interface: mod_ssl/2.2.3, Library: OpenSSL/0.9.8b

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so I believe I have everything I need .. but it seems my environment isn't right. Thoughts?

Alex / talexb / Toronto

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In reply to REST, CGI::Application::Plugin::Apache and Apache2::Request by talexb

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