mod_perl is slightly different from a run-of-the-mill perl module, it's actually an apache webserver module for running perl scripts. You can find information on it here : http://perl.apache.org/

Sites choose to use particular features based on their level of personal comfort and paranoia for the ramifications (usually security-related). Most of what you do with mod_perl you can probably also do with a standard cgi script, in fact I don't think theres really much difference from your perspective, it's just a different handler in the hosted service's apache configuration.

So I would probably ask them how they do stuff with CGI instead of mod_perl, and see if theres any real differences, before you start arguing to have it installed.

In reply to Re: prevelance of mod_perl by deorth
in thread prevelance of mod_perl by patll

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