ANNOUNCE: mod_perl guide ver. 1.31

[Stas Bekman <st...@stason.org>]

A new version of the mod_perl guide is now available:

- online:
  o HTML http://perl.apache.org/guide/
  o PDF  http://perl.apache.org/guide/mod_perl_guide.pdf.gz (665pp)
- the source at CPAN:
   file: $CPAN/authors/id/S/ST/STAS/Apache-mod_perl_guide-1.31.tar.gz
   size: 472182 bytes
    md5: 72d698b0799d32c1c5b2f07cd1f75eb3
(it'll take a few hours for CPAN mirrors to catch up)

Changes since v1.30:

* intro.pod:

   o updated the long due credits section (~200 contributors! in total)

* install.pod:

   o add "When DSO can be Used" (Doug)

* modules.pod:

   o add Module::Use

   o add Apache::ConfigFile

* debug.pod:

   o noted the fact that the technique of detecting aborted connections
     doesn't work with mod_proxy.

* performance.pod:

   o removed from the last section a dead link of
     http://members.nbci.com/Alex_Maranda/gnuintel/GNUintel.htm

* snippets.pod:

   o detecting SSL connection (Vivek Khera, Geoff Young, Issac Goldstand)

   o Note the Apache::Request->instance class method in addition to the
     POST2GET example (Robin Bjorn)

* porting.pod:

   o s/headers_out/header_out/ where it was incorrectly used,
     (Issac Goldstand)

   o fix the potential bug when using -r $file followed by -M _ and 'do
     $filename' inbetween, which may call stat() and _ won't include the
     right stat struct. (Randy Kobes)

* troubleshooting.pod:

   o SegFaults During Startup

* help.pod:

   o add a reference to http://lists.perl.org/

   o add references to the new mailing lists

* code:

   o the results in lwp-bench.pl are correctly based on the number of
     @urls used (Boris Zentner)

* strategy.pod:

   o new section: "Closing Lingering Connections with Lingerd"

enjoy!
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