video pirates

2003-11-03 Thread John Michael
I am trying to find out the best way to prevent people from opening several browsers to download several video files at one time.  I think it may be site download robots causing the problem.   I have heard of mod throttle and mod bandwidth or would it be better to try and write something in

[patch CGI.pm] fix the read() POST requests under 'SetHandler modperl'

2003-11-03 Thread Stas Bekman
Unrelated to the issue with PerlIO blocking read that will be resolved shortly, CGI.pm has a problem working under mod_perl 2's 'SetHandler modperl' mode, when you can't do: read(STDIN, ); because STDIN is not "connected" to the client's socket. Therefore CGI.pm must always use $self->r-

Re: [Fwd: Apache::AuthenNTLM]

2003-11-03 Thread Shannon Eric Peevey
Original Message Subject:Apache::AuthenNTLM Date: Mon, 3 Nov 2003 10:56:26 - From: francoise dehinbo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Hi Shannon, I was hoping you might be able to help me with a problem I'm currently having with this module.

Re: [Fwd: AuthenNTLM and slow web server]

2003-11-03 Thread Shannon Eric Peevey
Stefano Ciancio wrote: Hi, I have seen better the log and the error in apache's error.log was about some gif that the web server not found. But the big problem with this module is that seem for each object it require an authentication from pdc/bdc. This behaviour causes the web server to go _ver

please test perl-5.8.2-RC2

2003-11-03 Thread Stas Bekman
Nicholas Clark has just released perl-5.8.2-RC2 and plans to release the final 5.8.2 in less than 48 hours. This is your chance to test your applications and report any showstopper to the perl5-porters list via the perlbug utilitity distributed with perl. All mod_perl 1.x versions work fine wit

Re: [Fwd: AuthenNTLM and slow web server]

2003-11-03 Thread Shannon Eric Peevey
Stefano Ciancio wrote: Hi Shannon Eric, I have set "ntlmdebug" = 2 and produced an error.log that I have attached. It seems that the error is: [9100] AuthenNTLM: Authorization Header I don't know its means ... Can you help me? Stefano Hi! I'm sorry, but I have become foggy on the prob

Re: Using RPMs for Perl/mod_perl

2003-11-03 Thread Perrin Harkins
On Mon, 2003-11-03 at 13:43, Ruslan U. Zakirov wrote: > RH perl/mod_perl RPMs are bad. > 1) Perl 5.8.0 have bug which appear only with RH and Storable.pm. Fix: > upgrade Storable.pm > 2) RH use locale containing utf so perl 5.8.0 by default use utf > encoding for IO. Fix: change LANG to something

Re: different versions of Perl

2003-11-03 Thread Stas Bekman
Rafael Garcia-Suarez wrote: Perrin Harkins wrote: I've been running benchmarks of various IPC modules, like MLDBM::Sync, DBD::MySQL, etc. A version of 5.6.1 with all defaults taken runs them about 50% faster than the version of 5.8 that shipped with Red Hat 9. Granted, I heard that 5.8.1 made so

Re: [mp2] CGI.pm param's always empty from only some clients (bug or mistake on my part?)

2003-11-03 Thread Stas Bekman
Scott Beuker wrote: Stas, I have confirmed that the patch has worked everywhere! Thank you very much for your help (and to Geoff too). Cool. Can I assume that you will be submitting the patch to the CGI.pm maintainer? I did already. However most likely the solution will be different. It's not cl

Re: Using RPMs for Perl/mod_perl

2003-11-03 Thread Ruslan U. Zakirov
Ken Y. Clark wrote: The discussion this morning on RedHat's Perl and mod_perl has me wanting to ask about the general consensus on those packages. I develop and maintain a fair-sized mod_perl app called "CMap" (http://www.gmod.org/cmap), and my typical installers are biology Ph.D.'s who generally

Using RPMs for Perl/mod_perl

2003-11-03 Thread Ken Y. Clark
The discussion this morning on RedHat's Perl and mod_perl has me wanting to ask about the general consensus on those packages. I develop and maintain a fair-sized mod_perl app called "CMap" (http://www.gmod.org/cmap), and my typical installers are biology Ph.D.'s who generally have only a rudiment

Re: different versions of Perl

2003-11-03 Thread Perrin Harkins
On Mon, 2003-11-03 at 12:39, Todd White wrote: > as mentioned in my side message to you, Perrin, i'm looking to 5.8.1 for > its unicode support. specifically, to make it easy to output XML in UTF-8 > as an OAI (Open Archives Initiative) repository. You really do need to recompile mod_perl, just a

Re: different versions of Perl

2003-11-03 Thread Perrin Harkins
On Mon, 2003-11-03 at 12:45, Rafael Garcia-Suarez wrote: > The perl shipped with RH 9 (actually a 5.8.0 + lots of patches) > is compiled with threads and with a shared libperl.so, two factors that > are known to slow things down. I think that 5.8.0 is slower than 5.6.x, > but not considerably. Howe

Re: [Fwd: AuthenNTLM and slow web server]

2003-11-03 Thread Shannon Eric Peevey
Leo Lapworth wrote: On Fri, Oct 31, 2003 at 08:08:02PM +0100, Stefano Ciancio wrote: But the big problem with this module is that seem for each object it require an authentication from pdc/bdc. This behaviour causes the web server to go _very_ slow. The user must wait ten of seconds to load a s

Re: different versions of Perl

2003-11-03 Thread Rafael Garcia-Suarez
Perrin Harkins wrote: > I've been running benchmarks of various IPC modules, like MLDBM::Sync, > DBD::MySQL, etc. A version of 5.6.1 with all defaults taken runs them > about 50% faster than the version of 5.8 that shipped with Red Hat 9. > Granted, I heard that 5.8.1 made some gains in dealing w

Re: different versions of Perl

2003-11-03 Thread Todd White
as mentioned in my side message to you, Perrin, i'm looking to 5.8.1 for its unicode support. specifically, to make it easy to output XML in UTF-8 as an OAI (Open Archives Initiative) repository. On 3 Nov 2003, Perrin Harkins wrote: > On Mon, 2003-11-03 at 12:21, Rafael Garcia-Suarez wrote: >

Re: [Fwd: Apache::AuthenNTLM]

2003-11-03 Thread Stefano Ciancio
Hi Francoise, have you checked your IE settings? In "Internet options" of IE there is somewhere an option to tell IE to automatic authenticate. Stefano On Mon, 03 Nov 2003 11:05:01 -0600 Shannon Eric Peevey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Original Message > Subject:

Re: different versions of Perl

2003-11-03 Thread Perrin Harkins
On Mon, 2003-11-03 at 12:21, Rafael Garcia-Suarez wrote: > Have you some benchmarks to back up this affirmation or is it only > an opinion ? If you have benchmarks, I know quite a lot of people > that would be interested. I've been running benchmarks of various IPC modules, like MLDBM::Sync, DBD:

[ANN] libapreq2-2.01-dev-rc1 release candidate #1

2003-11-03 Thread Joe Schaefer
The first developer release of libapreq2 is underway. This package provides the Perl modules Apache::Request and Apache::Cookie for modperl-2, and requires the following: apache2 w/ mod_so: 2.0.46 libapr: 0.9.4 libaprutil: 0.9.4 modperl2: 1.99_09

Re: different versions of Perl

2003-11-03 Thread Rafael Garcia-Suarez
Perrin Harkins wrote: > > On Mon, 2003-11-03 at 12:12, Todd White wrote: > > this system also has Perl version 5.8.1 installed. is there any way to > > use the 5.8.1 interpreter without rebuilding mod_perl? > > No, there isn't. Frankly, unless you really need something that is in > 5.8.1 you sho

Re: different versions of Perl

2003-11-03 Thread Perrin Harkins
On Mon, 2003-11-03 at 12:12, Todd White wrote: > this system also has Perl version 5.8.1 installed. is there any way to > use the 5.8.1 interpreter without rebuilding mod_perl? No, there isn't. Frankly, unless you really need something that is in 5.8.1 you should stick with what you have. 5.6.1

different versions of Perl

2003-11-03 Thread Todd White
i fear this has been asked many times, but i could not find a definitive answer. i am using a system on which mod_perl is available, but the Perl version it's using is 5.6.1 this system also has Perl version 5.8.1 installed. is there any way to use the 5.8.1 interpreter without rebuilding mod_pe

RE: [mp2] CGI.pm param's always empty from only some clients (bug or mistake on my part?)

2003-11-03 Thread Scott Beuker
Stas, I have confirmed that the patch has worked everywhere! Thank you very much for your help (and to Geoff too). Can I assume that you will be submitting the patch to the CGI.pm maintainer? Thanks, Scott Beuker

[Fwd: Apache::AuthenNTLM]

2003-11-03 Thread Shannon Eric Peevey
Original Message Subject:Apache::AuthenNTLM Date: Mon, 3 Nov 2003 10:56:26 - From: francoise dehinbo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Hi Shannon, I was hoping you might be able to help me with a problem I'm currently having with this module. Be

Re: [Fwd: AuthenNTLM and slow web server]

2003-11-03 Thread Stefano Ciancio
Hi Shannon Eric, I have set "ntlmdebug" = 2 and produced an error.log that I have attached. It seems that the error is: [9100] AuthenNTLM: Authorization Header I don't know its means ... Can you help me? Stefano On Fri, 31 Oct 2003 08:41:39 -0600 Shannon Eric Peevey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

Re: PATCH perl_reference.pod "Remedies for Inner Subroutines"

2003-11-03 Thread Stas Bekman
Brian McCauley wrote: Here's a _very_ rough first cut at perl_reference.pod. I haven't even proof-read it yet so it's probably got spelling a and grammar errors but I just want to be sure I'm going in the right direction. Thanks Brian. A few comments: [...] - #!/usr/bin/perl -w + #!/usr/bin/pe