filtering outgoing headers

[Bill Moseley <mo...@hank.org>]

Hi,

In the converted AuthCookie (AuthCookieURL?) that also handles sessions by
URL, I need a way to add the session back on the URL when Apache generates
a redirect to someplace within the site (e.g. when a request is for a
directory).

Currently, I'm registering a 301 and 302 ErrorDocument to prefix the
Location: header with the session ID.  I don't like this method as it
requires the ErrorDocument and prevents other ErrorDocument handlers, and
adds ugly configuration in httpd.conf.  And it won't work in CGI scripts
that just print a Location: header.

Is there a mod_perl solution to this problem without using an
ErrorDocument?  Could I override $r->send_http_header or would that not
work with internal Apache redirects?  Shooting in the dark, I tried to tie
*STDOUT in a fixup handler, but the PRINT method never gets called.  But
this isn't really a pipelined handler operation -- perhaps mod_perl ties
*STDOUT after the fixup handler?

It would be nice in mod_perl to be able to filter everything that's going
to the client -- even non-mod_perl generated responses in ways other than
using pipelined PerlHandlers.

Anyway, I'm searching for suggestions as at this point I'm just guessing...

Thanks,




Bill Moseley
mailto:moseley@hank.org