Re: Problem with RequestRec and Headers

["Philippe M. Chiasson" <suppressed>]

jk jk wrote:
> I'm trying to port a preexisting CGI app to mod_perl2 and could use some
> help.
> 
> Here goes a test case that should illustrate my problem:
> 
> The code pasted below loads the page properly the first time it's
> accessed.  However, upon multiple reloads in firefox, the headers either
> disappear altogether or the page is downloaded in the download manager. 
> I assume this is because the wrong $r object is being accessed by the
> request?  In any case, I'm at a loss and would really appreciate some
> input.  Thanks in advance.
> [...]
> 
> =============
> File: testme/testmod.pm
> =============
> 
> package testme::testmod;
> 
> use Apache2::RequestUtil;
> use strict;
> 
> use base qw /Class::Singleton/;

^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^

From the documentation of Class::Singleton:

# this only gets called the first time instance() is called

> sub _new_instance{
> 
>     my ( $class, $r ) = @_;
> 
>     my $self = {};
> 
>     bless $self, $class;
> 
>     $self->{r} = $r;
> 
>     return ( $self );
> 
> }

So effectively, your code will capture the $r (once for each child)
from the first request and keep it forever. Trying to use it for subsequent
requests will cause the kind of problems you've seen.

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