Re: help with rewriting CGI

Once complete, I can preload the modules at Apache startup. Is that correct?

If you want to benefit from pre compiling your code using something like a startup.pl file to load the modules

you use would speed things up considerably from running them as CGI cgi.

I use 2 files one for 3rd party modules and one for my own with it's own include path.

Also, I may want to use ajax, therefore, what modules will I need to run Apache2::Ajax?

Ajax is a client side technology. You would use whatever you're using now, only

running your cgi as mod_perl scripts instead, e.g. if you use CGI.pm to process

ajax requests currently, you might want to look into the APR modules as replacements for

acquiring your request data.

http://httpd.apache.org/apreq/docs/libapreq2/modules.html

Also keep in mind using mod_perl over standard cgi scripts gives you a larger apache life cycle,

i.e. some scripts might be better off applied as filters rather than during the response phase.

http://perl.apache.org/docs/2.0/user/handlers/http.html#PerlResponseHandler

http://perl.apache.org/docs/2.0/user/handlers/filters.html#HTTP_Request_Versus_Connection_Filters

Hope that helps.

-bop

On Dec 30, 2007, at 9:10 AM, Raful Mr Mitchell H wrote:

I have a site that is written with traditional CGI (no cgi.pm ). I use mod_perl2 but rather than run the scripts as CGI I want to convert them to mod_perl. I have read Beckman's latest on mod_perl 2 and have Practical Mod_Perl.

Here's the question. From what I have read, it looks like I should re-write my perl scripts as perl modules and make the appropriate changes, such as using $r inside handlers, etc. Once complete, I can preload the modules at Apache startup. Is that correct? Also, I may want to use ajax, therefore, what modules will I need to run Apache2::Ajax?

Thanks,

Mitch
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