mod_perl

Changes for version 1.12

added a long overdue CREDITS file
add SSLCacheServer{Port,Path} directives for ApacheSSL + 'make test'
Adam Laurie <adam@algroup.co.uk>
- added $r->location method
- Various fixes and improvements to the APACI support:
  - Added support for PERL_THREADS to apaci stuff. This is needed under the bleeding edge Perl's (e.g. 5.004_6X).
  - Avoid more unnecessary file copies and edits under APACI situation.
  - Cleanup the PERL_XXX hooks in apaci/mod_perl.config[.sh]
  - Ralf S. Engelschall
    - Add additional .xs.o target to apaci/Makefile.tmpl to workaround braindead Makes.
  - Brian P Millett <bpm@ec-group.com>
- if $r->subprocess_env is called in a void context just call (void)perl_cgi_env_init(r)
- $ENV{PATH}: don't let perl_clear_env() clear it's value
- prevent $r->dir_config SEGV if called during ChildInit, spotted by Lincoln Stein
- add a dTHR to perl_util.c for threaded 5.004_66
Brian P Millett <bpm@ec-group.com>
- added $r->get_server_port method
- sfio read will now call Apache::read, as it should. Thanks to Steve Farrell for the spot
- added $r->last method
- $r->cgi_env when called in a void context will simply setup the subprocess_env table
- avoid some possible warnings in Apache.pm [Brian Mosley <ix@maz.org>]
- added $r->request_time method
- fix bug when PERL_MARK_WHERE was undefined spotted by Kermit Tensmeyer
- emulate pre-1.3b6 r->uri/r->proxyreq behavior for proxy requests inside the post_read_request_handler and add t/internal/proxy test
- added additional installation document INSTALL.apaci which describes the new APACI stuff (including background information).
Ralf S. Engelschall <rse@engelschall.com>
- added new (but still optional!) Apache 1.3 support via the new Apache Autoconf-style Interface (APACI): The option USE_APACI=1 triggers a new build-environment (from local apaci/) for the APACHE_SRC/src/modules/perl/ which provides a clean way (i.e. without patching anything inside APACHE_SRC, not even the Configuration file) of configuring mod_perl via a APACHE_SRC/src/modules/perl/mod_perl.config file. The completey configuration is enabled by just using the APACI command "configure --activate-module=src/modules/perl/libperl.a"
Ralf S. Engelschall <rse@engelschall.com>
- experimental tie of $0 to Apache->request->filename, enable with -DPERL_TIE_SCRIPTNAME
- added little Apache::system that redirects output to the browser, should this be imported into Apache::{Registry,PerlRun} scripts?
- new Apache::Tie module, provides Apache::TieHashTable for a proper interface to Apache table structures. The following methods, called in a scalar context with no "key" argument, will return a HASH reference, where HASH is tied to Apache::TieHashTable: headers_in, headers_out, err_headers_out, notes, dir_config, subprocess_env enable with PERL_TIE_TABLES=1 see also: t/net/perl/tie_table.pl
- remove Cwd::fastcwd usage from Apache::Registry, use $Apache::Server::CWD set at server startup instead
- new method Apache->chdir_file, use to replace chdir File::Basename::dirname($r->filename) in Apache::Registry
- replace Apache::Registry use of IO::File w/ Apache::gensym
- new function Apache::gensym (xsub, does same as Symbol::gensym)
- add $ServerRoot/lib/perl to @INC at startup
- add code to deal with 1.3b7-dev's SERVER_SUBVERSION replacement
- a few doc patches [John D Groenveld <jdg117@elvis.arl.psu.edu>]
- re-implemented $r->read to properly use *client_block methods and call reset_timeout after each read in the loop. until this is well tested, the method is called new_read. to test on tie'd STDIN reads, a startup script can say this: *Apache::READ = \&Apache::new_read;
- added setup_client_block, should_client_block and get_client_block methods
- modules/cgi test will attempt a fileupload of perlfunc.pod to file_upload.cgi if HTTP::Request::Common is installed (libwww-perl-5.09+) and $CGI::VERSION >= 2.39
- make $r->connection->aborted work as documented again, thanks to spot by Jens Heunemann
- swap order of stacked handlers so dynamic ones (push_handlers) are invoked after server .conf configured handlers
- replace uses of SvPVX() with SvPV() to prevent possible core dump if called with a non-string value
- added COMPILED REGULAR EXPRESSIONS section to mod_perl_traps.pod [David Landgren <david@landgren.net>, Mark Mills <mark@ntr.net>, Randal Schwartz <merlyn@stonehenge.com>, Jens Heunemann <heunemann2@janet.de>]
- have ldopts yank ExtUtils::Liblist message: Note (probably harmless): No library found for ... from stdout to stderr [Stas Bekman <sbekman@iil.intel.com>]
- change Apache.xs/typemap so classes who inherit from the Apache class can invoke methods with a hash object, provided $hash->{_r} contains a request_rec object
- additions to experimental Perl directive support:
- a per-directory config object is now passed as the first argument to directive handlers registered via Apache::ExtUtils->xs_cmd_table the object is a hash reference blessed into the same class as the handler
- $r->dir_config with no args now looks for per-directory config in the caller's namespace
- xs_cmd_table now looks for a prototype to determine TAKE1, TAKE2, TAKE3, etc.
- added $Apache::CurrentThreadId variable under win32
- added method/object handler tests to internal/stacked test
- fixed broken modules/eperl test spotted by Tom Mornini
- fixed Makefile.PL bug spotted by Jon Drukman w/ PERL_CHILD_EXIT=1 in fact, PerlChildInitHandler/PerlHandlerExitHandler are always enabled by default now with 1.3bx+
- added experimental get_handlers/set_handlers methods (enable with PERL_GET_SET_HANDLERS=1)
- new module Apache::PerlRun, splits out Apache::Registry functionality and provides a `dirty-perl' handler (see pod). thanks to Stas Bekman for testing and suggestions.
- PERL_OBJECT_HANDLERS now enabled #ifdef PERL_METHOD_HANDLERS
- widen scope of mutex lock under win32 to avoid possible deadlock
Gerald Richter <richter@ecos.de>
- fixed bug in directory_merge where FLAG directives would inherit `On' from the base configuration, even if the directory explicitly had the flag turned `Off', this was the case for PerlSendHeader and PerlSetupEnv. thanks to Mark-Jason Dominus for the spot.
- added `grab' function to Apache::test, which fetches a url and gives diagnostics as to validity of the HTTP response (a test for properly formatted headers!)