Re: Auth handler and Registry scripts

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On Jan 19, 2005, at 1:45 PM, Joe Schaefer wrote:

> Sean Davis <sdavis2@xxxx.xxx.xxx> writes:
>
> [...]
>
>> Thanks Joe, Tom, and Geoff for the replies.  To answer all of you:
>>
>> I am NOT using mp2 and I think the behavior is documented for mp1, as
>> others have suggested.
>
> True, you can't share the post data in an apache-1 server, so
> either use the POST-to-GET kludge, or make sure all the modules
> use the same parsing library (CGI.pm).
>
>> As for using Apache::Request->instance(), the CGI code is legacy code
>> and uses CGI.pm exclusively, so I don't have the option of using the
>> Apache::Request object without some code wading (not now).  Just out
>> of curiosity, though, will something as simple as:
>>
>> $r = Apache::Request->instance();
>> $q = CGI->new($r);
>>
>> work when using the instance method under mp1 regardless of whether 
>> the
>> Apache::Request->instance() has been used in a prior handler?
>
> No, that won't work.  It will work in mp2 though, because apache 2.x 
> has
> a much richer IO (filtering) scheme.  The mp2 version of 
> Apache::Request
> takes advantage of that.  CGI.pm doesn't though, so you need to be sure
> Apache::Request is invoked before CGI.pm consumes all the post data.
> But the situation of an auth-handler using Apache::Request, with a
> Registry script using CGI.pm, should just work in mp2.  No kludges
> required there.
>

As I suspected.  Thanks for the details.

Sean