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List:       apache-modperl
Subject:    Re: mod_perl 2 Tutorial at OSCON this year
From:       Torsten Foertsch <torsten.foertsch () gmx ! net>
Date:       2008-04-18 17:32:07
Message-ID: 200804181932.07481.torsten.foertsch () gmx ! net
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On Fri 18 Apr 2008, Jim Brandt wrote:
> They might start with CGI acceleration and down the road
> realize they can inject something interesting into the Apache request
> cycle to solve a problem.

Not so much for the beginner but to solve problems:

Apache2::Translation provides dynamic request configuration without restarting 
apache. Similar to .htaccess but with several backends and a nice admin 
frontend. From another point of view it looks like a perlish mod_rewrite. 
Works mostly in URI Translation and MapToStorage. If you are interested and 
know German I can provide a bit of text I am writing (when I have time) and a 
few images.

Apache2::POST200 replaces replies to POST requests with HTTP code 200 with 
redirects to the same URL. A keyword passed as parameter then tells the 
server to ship the original answer. When a browser gets an HTTP code 200 as 
reply to a POST request and the user presses "Reload" the browser asks if it 
should repost the data. This is annoying and many people don't know how to 
react. Apache2::POST200 solves that. It can even be deployed on a proxy.

Apache2::ModSSL provides access to mod_ssl exported functions like 
$c->is_https, $c->ssl_var_lookup and $c->ssl_ext_lookup. (The latter looks 
for x509 certificate extensions.)

Don't forget to point out that there is still plenty of work to do to improve 
mod_perl and that fresh developers are welcome.

Torsten

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