Re: Best practices for returning 404/file-not-found pages inside and outside of mod_perl

["Perrin Harkins" <suppressed>]

On Tue, Apr 22, 2008 at 2:27 PM, Mark Stosberg <suppressed> wrote:
>   A. If I just set "status => 404" with CGI.pm / Apache::Registry and
>    return nothing, it works the first time, and then after that I
>    get a lot of these errors:
>
>    "[Tue Apr 22 13:47:07 2008] [error] Can't locate SAP/QuickSearch.pm
>  in @INC" And indeed, the path that should be set via PerlSetEnv is
>  missing.

Hmm, PerlSetEnv depends on being inside a specific
Location/File/Directory block.  Are you sure that apache has resolved
to the block you think it's in when you have this problem?

>   B. If I sent "status => 404" *and* send content, the result is that
>  two pages are displayed: One is the ErrorDocument for 404, and the
>  other is the content I sent.

Yeah, it can't recall content you've already sent.  I think mod_cgi
avoids this issue by buffering everything.

- Perrin