If that print is actually inside of a subroutine, then you would have a closure problem which would keep the first value passed in forever. If it's not inside a sub and is just exactly as you show here with no hidden changes to %vars happening in those subs you mention in your comment, then I would suspect that the method $query->Vars() may have a bug when used with mod_perl. You could try using $query->param('action') instead and see if that gives a different result.

I would also be very suspicious of the Env module. It might be loading environment variables into globals and not clearing them between invocations. I don't see how this would affect your %vars issue, but it could be another caching problem. Just use %ENV instead, which is set up for you by mod_perl.

In reply to Re: "caching" issue with mod_perl? by perrin
in thread "caching" issue with mod_perl? by hacker

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