RFC: Apache::SafeRegistry

[Matt Sergeant <ma...@sergeant.org>]

A while back you may remember I tried to implement a "Safe" version of
Apache::Registry for ISP's so that they can get the speedups of mod_perl,
without worrying too much about what users are doing to their
server. Unfortunately it prevented useful things like DBI from working at
all, so would be pretty much useless for any interactive content.

However, some kind soul wrote a "SafeHole" - a hole in the safe
compartment so that you can call methods outside of the safe
compartment. I think this should allow us to make a working
Apache::SafeRegistry while still allowing useful tools like DBI to be made
to work, by supplying something like a "dbi_connect()" function through
the hole.

So the questions for the RFC are:

- Would people find this useful?

- What should we build in - DBI support is the obvious one, sessions maybe
another, Apache API support is another.

- What should the configuration API look like?

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<Matt/>

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