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Posted to modperl@perl.apache.org by Doug MacEachern <do...@pobox.com> on 2000/02/17 02:40:56 UTC

Re: PerlDispatchHandler for error handling?

On Thu, 10 Feb 2000, David Harris wrote:

> Hey,
> 
> Does anybody know how to use PerlDispatchHandler to somehow trap errors in
> perl? I think I remember somebody mentioning that... I've been looking around
> and I can't find too much of any documentation about what PerlDispatchHandler
> actually does. (Already checked the archives and www.modperl.com.) Anybody know
> what actually PerlDispatchHandler does? :-)

in a nutshell, if you configure a PerlDispatchHandler, it is called
instead of the configured Perl*Handler's, with the Perl*Handler subroutine
name as the first argument.  it's up to your dispatch handler to implement
the calling conventions, error trapping, etc.