Re: Apache2::RequestUtil error

["Phil Whelan" <suppressed>]

On 17/01/07, Randy Kobes <suppressed> wrote:
> On Tue, 16 Jan 2007, suppressed wrote:
>
> > Hi folks,
> >
> > Not sure whether this issue has been resolved earlier, but did my bit
> > searching on the list and googled - couldn't find any standard solutions
> > working for me. And apologies for the long mail.
> >
> > I am upgrading our servers to mod_perl 2.0.2 and Apache 2.0.59 (compiled from
> > source)
> >
> > We get the following errors for a few of our perl cgi scripts
> >
> > Usage: Apache2::Cookie->fetch($r): missing argument $r: attempt to fetch
> > global Apache2::RequestUtil->request failed: Can't locate object method
> > "request" via package "Apache2::RequestUtil" at
> > /opt/apache-2.0.59/3plib/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.8.8/i686-linux/Apache2/Coo
> > kie.pm line 32.
> > .
>
> Are you passing $r into fetch()? eg,
>     my %cookies = Apache2::Cookie->fetch($r);

I'd guess this is the issue, since according to the docs Apache1 is

 my $cookies = Apache::Cookie->fetch;

Apache2 is

 my $cookies = Apache2::Cookie->fetch($r);
 my %cookies = Apache2::Cookie->fetch($r);

and the error is thrown only when $r is not defined.

> > I have tried adding
> > ---------------------------
> > use Apache2;
> > use Apache2::compat;
> > ---------------------------
> > in the startup.pl file but Apache can't find Apache2.pm and hence wouldn't
> > start. If I just add in the Apache2::compat,  it still shows the same above
> > errors.
>
> Apache2.pm is no longer present in mod_perl; see
>     http://perl.apache.org/docs/2.0/rename.html
>
> --
> best regards,
> Randy Kobes


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