configuration directives -> writing to table after initial handler

[Marc Murphy <mw...@rogers.com>]

When a configuration directive is encountered in httpd.conf, and the 
handler sets some values in the hash reference it gets, are those values 
somehow reloaded when a new request is made?

I've tried modifying them by first using Apach:ModuleConfig->get($r, 
Modulename), but then seem to keep going back to the values that were 
originally set by the handler.  I don't know much yet but I think the 
handler called by the configuration directive only runs when the server 
starts.  

Any help is greatly appreciated.  The only thing I've been able to find 
about this is some chapter out of the modperl cookbook but it doesn't 
say anything about whether you are supposed to modify them after they 
are set.  ???