mp2: request methods

[Mark Laird Copper <m....@wayne.edu>]

NEWBIE QUESTION (sorry)

On April 1, Stas Bekman wrote that nothing had changed with
Apache::Request, in particular param was still the method for passing
form data in.

But hasn't *something* changed?  For example, I get:
 #perl -MApache2 -MModPerl::MethodLookup -e print_method param  
 Don't know anything about method 'param'

I'm also having trouble with the RequestUtil constructor.  Somehow,
although "use Apache RequestUtil ();" is in my startup.pl, I still get
the error:  
"Can't locate object method "new" via package "Apache::RequestUtil" 
(perhaps you forgot to load "Apache::RequestUtil"?)

Is this related to the META for $r->args in the user manual? (when
Apache::Request will be ported to mod_perl 2.0, you will have the fast C
implementation of these functions.)

Is a workaround simply to avoid Apache->request as recommended in the
user manual?  But then how *does* one parse the request string?

Thanks.

Mark

Re: mp2: request methods

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

Perrin Harkins wrote:
> On Thu, 2003-05-08 at 11:37, Mark Laird Copper wrote:
> 
>>On April 1, Stas Bekman wrote that nothing had changed with
>>Apache::Request, in particular param was still the method for passing
>>form data in.

Don't believe anything you read on April 1 ;)

>>But hasn't *something* changed?  For example, I get:
>> #perl -MApache2 -MModPerl::MethodLookup -e print_method param  
>> Don't know anything about method 'param'
> 
> 
> He was talking about mod_perl 1.x.  There currently is no support for
> Apache::Request in mod_perl 2.  Use something like CGI.pm instead.

libapreq-2 is almost complete and looking for people to write the Perl glue 
for it. The ball is now on our ground.

If you are interested in doing that, use the apreq-dev list. The subscription 
info is here: http://httpd.apache.org/apreq/

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Re: mp2: request methods

[Perrin Harkins <pe...@elem.com>]

On Thu, 2003-05-08 at 11:37, Mark Laird Copper wrote:
> On April 1, Stas Bekman wrote that nothing had changed with
> Apache::Request, in particular param was still the method for passing
> form data in.
> 
> But hasn't *something* changed?  For example, I get:
>  #perl -MApache2 -MModPerl::MethodLookup -e print_method param  
>  Don't know anything about method 'param'

He was talking about mod_perl 1.x.  There currently is no support for
Apache::Request in mod_perl 2.  Use something like CGI.pm instead.

- Perrin