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NAME

Apache::MONITOR - Implementation of the HTTP MONITOR method

SYNOPSIS

DESCRIPTION

This module implements a MONITOR HTTP method, which adds notifications to the World Wide Web.

CONFIGURATION

httpd.conf:

  PerlSetVar MonitorDataDir /home/httpd/monitors
  PerlSetVar MonitorUrlPrefix http://myserver/monitors/
 
  PerlPostReadRequestHandler Apache::MONITOR
  PerlHeaderParserHandler Apache::MONITOR::hp_handler
 
  <Location /monitors/>
    SetHandler perl-script
    PerlHandler Apache::MONITOR::moo
  </Location>

crontab:

  # check for changes every 30 minutes
  0,30 * * * * perl -MApache::MONITOR -e NOTIFY /home/httpd/monitors &>/dev/null

COMMANDLINE TOOLS

Subscribe:

  perl -MApache::MONITOR -e SUBSCRIBE http://www.mopo.de mailto:joe@the.org

Show all subscriptions:

  perl -MApache::MONITOR -e SHOW /path/to/monitors

Check for changes and notify:

  perl -MApache::MONITOR -e NOTIFY /path/to/monitors

EXPORT

AUTHOR

Jan Algermissen, algermissen@acm.org