Re: Modperl Handlers [ was: Apache Client Filehandle]

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I'm replying to myself :) ? Cool.

I found the answers to my questions below in the list and/or documentation.

Thanks for your time Geoffrey.  I sometimes need to take a moment and 
look at documentation before I pop off emails.

Leo


Leo wrote:

> Geoffrey Young wrote:
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>> please keep posts on-list so everyone can benefit :)
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> Oops.  I'll do that.
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>>> Thanks for the sugestion; my handler has a flag that is set in an
>>> application specific config file (not the apache.conf or any included
>>> files therein) that should be able to turn off compression.
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>> what you could do in that case is just disable mod_deflate:
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>>  $r->subprocess_env('no-gzip' => 1) if $some_custom_condition;
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> Very cool indead.
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>> the trick is, you need to do it before the PerlResponseHandler phase, 
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>> as from a PerlFixupHandler.
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> Even if no header data has been sent by the PerlResponseHandler?
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> I have only been using the ResponseHandler in my code except for one 
> instance where I read my application specific config file where I use 
> the PostConfigHandler.  But this configuration flag is specific to the 
> data instance being handled...
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> Maybe I'll divide the work between several handlers from now on. Maybe 
> I can use the PerlFixupHandler to the actual processing, use DBI, 
> process session data, set whatever special requirements are needed 
> like your sugestion above.
> Then I can use the Response handler to perform the final template 
> processing before I send the clients it's data.
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> Do file scoped variables in perl survive between subsequent handler 
> calls?  what about subrequests (as in $r->internal_redirect(<somewhere>))
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> Lastly, I gather my initial idea of using some internal filehandle to 
> steal control even in special (rare) circumstances is unorthodox, but 
> not technically impossible, right?
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> Leo
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>> HTH
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>> --Geoff
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