pure fileless requests

[Andrew Maltsev <am...@xao.com>]

Hello,

I use PerlTransHandler to decide if I want to intercept and serve a 
request or not. When the request is served by my content handler there
is no file that corresponds to it, directly or indirectly.

I used to just not call $r->filename(...) at all. But under Gentoo's 
overtightened default config it fails with access denied. My best guess 
-- because it maps to '/' by default and that's denied.

I had to resort to calling $r->filename($r->document_root.'/index.html) 
which does solve my problem, but looks terrible. And apache still 
translates it to index.html.en, provides finfo() and so -- none of which 
I need.

So, my question is -- what is the best way to tell Apache that there is 
no file associated with this request, don't bother trying to stat() any 
files or run any <Directory> rules.

Thanx!

Oh, and I use latest 2.x versions for development, but the same code 
runs in 1.x and 2.x mod_perl/apache setups.

Andrew.

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Re: pure fileless requests

[Geoffrey Young <ge...@modperlcookbook.org>]

> So, my question is -- what is the best way to tell Apache that there is
> no file associated with this request, don't bother trying to stat() any
> files or run any <Directory> rules.
> 
> Thanx!
> 
> Oh, and I use latest 2.x versions for development, but the same code
> runs in 1.x and 2.x mod_perl/apache setups.

in 1.0 returning OK from a PerlTransHander is sufficient to avoid those
stat() calls, while in 2.0 you need to do this from a PerlMapToStorageHandler.

--Geoff

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