mod_perl is a heckuva lot more than a dynamic website speedup hack. It gives you hooks into every phase of the Apache request lifecycle (authentication, URI translation, content, etc. etc. etc.), which offers you ludicrous amounts of power. I don't think any JSP engine gives you all that, either a standalone JSP-type server (I've used the Apache project's Tomcat engine in this capacity a bit) or one that's embedded into Apache w/mod_jserv.

So if these hooks into Apache are something you'd like to have in your toolkit, mod_perl seems to be ahead on this.

(Any of those more familiar with Tomcat etc. feel free to correct me on this point, I'm interested too).

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In reply to Re: Don't use CGI; by arturo
in thread Don't use CGI; by Jonathan

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