Re: Barrier to implementing web content compression in mod_perl

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On Sun, 30 Jan 2005 23:02:53 -0500, Stas Bekman <stas@xxxxxx.xxx> wrote:
> Alex Greg wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> >
> > I've been trying for some considerable time now to implement web
> > content compression for our application, but it seems impossible
> > without a rewrite.
> [...]
> > Has anyone else come across this problem, or can suggest a solution or
> > alternative approach? I've discussed it with Slava Bizyayev
> > (http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=apache-modperl&m=110435780804427&w=2)
> > before, but I can't rework our application code into a handler as
> > there's far too much of it. I've also emailed Ken Williams regarding
> > the "Not a HASH reference" error, but the solution he suggested (using
> > "$r = Apache->request->pnotes('filterobject')" instead of "$r =
> > Apache->request" produced the same error.
> 
> Why not switch to modperl2, where filters work better?
> http://perl.apache.org/docs/2.0/user/handlers/filters.html

I'm not sure we're ready to migrate to MP2 / Apache 2 just yet.

Can anything be done to address the filter problems in MP1?

-- Alex