RE: OT: Free Software as a "Security Hole"

Thanks. I actually found a mention in Stallman http://www.gnu.org/events/rms-nyu-2001-transcript.txt From: Jay Scherrer [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wed 1/12/2005 10:18 AM To: modperl@perl.apache.org Cc: Subject: Re: OT: Free Software as a "Security Hole" Perhaps you sould

Re: [mp2] fun with $r->location

> GET /foo/ yields the listing for /foo/, and NopHandler logs > $r->location to the error log as /foo. > > GET /foo/bar yields the results of NopResponse (which just coughs > up its $r->location, /foo/bar), and NopHandler logs $r->location > as /foo/bar, even though it is registered in . > > GET

Re: [mp1] Conflict with identical scripts loaded into independent virtual hosts

David L. Fielding wrote: Topic: Conflict with identical scripts loaded into independent virtual hosts Hello, We have been running a single instance of a large Perl application under Apache/mod_perl for a long time. We would like to run the same script (but each with different configuration data)

Re: [mp2] memory access violation in $subr->run

Please read http://perl.apache.org/docs/2.0/user/help/help.html#Reporting_Problems to learn how to submit a more complete bug report. This will help us understand your problem better and speed up the bug fixing process. Thanks! Dorian Taylor wrote: i'm running into a problem with the execution of

[mp2] fun with $r->location

i guess i had never come across it before, but i noticed today, in an attempt to use $r->location as a prefix for scrubbing path segments off the front of a request URI, that it's the innermost block that matches the URI path and that has a Perl*Handler in it that is returned, not the one in which

Re: Perl module requiring mod_perl

Patrick LeBoutillier wrote: Hi, I am writing a Perl module the requires mod_perl to run. What I would like to do detect if mod_perl is installed (and the appropriate version) directly from Makefile.PL (PREREQ_PM). just put something like this in PREREQ_PM mod_perl => '1.9916' That will require mod_

[mp1] Conflict with identical scripts loaded into independent virtual hosts

Topic: Conflict with identical scripts loaded into independent virtual hosts Hello, We have been running a single instance of a large Perl application under Apache/mod_perl for a long time. We would like to run the same script (but each with different configuration data) under different

[mp1] Conflict with identical scripts loaded into independent virtual hosts

Topic: Conflict with identical scripts loaded into independent virtual hosts Hello, We have been running a single instance of a large Perl application under Apache/mod_perl for a long time. We would like to run the same script (but each with different configuration data) under different virtual h

Perl module requiring mod_perl

Hi, I am writing a Perl module the requires mod_perl to run. What I would like to do detect if mod_perl is installed (and the appropriate version) directly from Makefile.PL (PREREQ_PM). I'm thinking maybe a ModPerl.pm module could be added to the mod_perl distro that could contain that current mo

Re: request counter

Torsten Foertsch wrote: Hi, is there a counter in Apache2 that indicates how many requests have been served by a particular child with prefork mpm? Yes. The scoreboard. If yes, is it accessible via perl? Yes. Apache::Scoreboard: http://search.cpan.org/dist/Apache-Scoreboard/ and you can see it in

Re: Free Software as a "Security Hole"

-- Skylos <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> It makes me wonder how they guarantee that the software they paid for doesn't have back doors in it. It does: google "microsoft windows easter eggs". Actually, you have better odds of knowing whether there are back doors on open source given that there ARE people who

Re: OT: Free Software as a "Security Hole"

Perhaps you sould read the source. But I think your looking for some backing with your discussion. Try posting to the [EMAIL PROTECTED] and see what happens. Free software has their new zine out perhaps take a read. Jay Scherrer On

Re: OT: Free Software as a "Security Hole"

Goehring, Chuck, RCI - San Diego wrote: I post here for lack of a better place. Sorry in advance to anyone offended. I was speaking to an acquaintance that has a security background and she told me her company prohibits the use of "Free" software because there is no guarantee that there are no

Re: request counter

Torsten Foertsch wrote: is there a counter in Apache2 that indicates how many requests have been served by a particular child with prefork mpm? You can just make one yourself in a global variable. See Apache::SizeLimit for an example. - Perrin -- No virus found in this outgoing message. Checked

[mp2] memory access violation in $subr->run

i'm running into a problem with the execution of subrequests. the process dies in modperl_wbucket_flush. this problem occurs with the same perl code in prefork.c and worker.c on osx. note, the subrequest is run from a non-response handler (i've tried header-parser through fixup, same effect). the

Re: Free Software as a "Security Hole"

hi ( 05.01.12 09:34 -0800 ) Goehring, Chuck, RCI - San Diego: > I was looking for something authoratative like FSF, ASF or Richard > Stallman documents etc. you may have heard of 'google' ... -- \js oblique strategy: remove specifics and convert to ambiguities

Re: Free Software as a "Security Hole"

It makes me wonder how they guarantee that the software they paid for doesn't have back doors in it. Skylos On Wed, 12 Jan 2005 09:34:12 -0800, Goehring, Chuck, RCI - San Diego <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I was looking for something authoratative like FSF, ASF or Richard Stallman > documents

RE: Free Software as a "Security Hole"

I was looking for something authoratative like FSF, ASF or Richard Stallman documents etc. Thanks in advance. -Original Message- From: Goehring, Chuck, RCI - San Diego Sent: Wed 1/12/2005 9:21 AM To: modperl@perl.apache.org Cc: Subject: OT: Free Software as a "Security Hole"

[Fwd: Re: OT: Free Software as a "Security Hole"]

I forgot to CC the list! Forwarded Message > From: brian wheeler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: Goehring, Chuck, RCI - San Diego > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Subject: Re: OT: Free Software as a "Security Hole" > Date: Wed, 12 Jan 2005 12:28:34 -0500 > On Wed, 2005-01-12 at 09:21 -0800, Goe

Re: OT: Free Software as a "Security Hole"

I am assuming you are trying to start a flame war here. With open software I can at least check if there is a back door. Think on that for a while. -Ian On Wed, 12 Jan 2005 09:21:01 -0800, Goehring, Chuck, RCI - San Diego <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I post here for lack of a better place. Sor

Re: OT: Free Software as a "Security Hole"

hi ( 05.01.12 09:21 -0800 ) Goehring, Chuck, RCI - San Diego: > I was speaking to an acquaintance that has a security background and > she told me her company prohibits the use of "Free" software because > there is no guarantee that there are no "backdoors" in it. why is this not true of propriet

Re: OT: Free Software as a "Security Hole"

Goehring, Chuck, RCI - San Diego wrote: I post here for lack of a better place. Sorry in advance to anyone offended. I was speaking to an acquaintance that has a security background and she told me her company prohibits the use of "Free" software because there is no guarantee that there are no "b

OT: Free Software as a "Security Hole"

I post here for lack of a better place. Sorry in advance to anyone offended. I was speaking to an acquaintance that has a security background and she told me her company prohibits the use of "Free" software because there is no guarantee that there are no "backdoors" in it. Has anyone suc

request counter

Hi, is there a counter in Apache2 that indicates how many requests have been served by a particular child with prefork mpm? If yes, is it accessible via perl? Thanks, Torsten pgpjmRIjJN5wk.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: Output a page for download

Wouldn't that be: Content-type "text/plain" ? Jay Scherrer On Wednesday 12 January 2005 06:38 am, Sean Davis wrote: > A basic question, but > > I would like to output tab-delimited text (from a database lookup) > to the user as an application/octet-stream with the name > "tissue_dump.txt". I

Re: Output a page for download

good question. If you want to force user to download this file try to set the header 'Content-disposition' to the value 'attachment; filename=tissue_dump.txt' $r->content_type('text/plain') $r->headers_out->set('Content-disposition' => 'attachment; filename=tissue_dump.txt'); worked. Thanks Roman

Re: PerlSendHeader in "Location" directive (mod_perl 1.x)

Ciro The Spider-Man wrote: Which section you refer to? I can only see nph mentioned in: http://perl.apache.org/docs/1.0/guide/config.html#E_lt_LocationE_gt__Configuration saying: PerlSendHeader On tells the server to send an HTTP headers to the browser on every script invocation. You will want to

Re: Output a page for download

On Wed, Jan 12, 2005 at 09:51:25AM -0500, John Saylor wrote: > hi > > ( 05.01.12 09:38 -0500 ) Sean Davis: > > I would like to output tab-delimited text (from a database lookup) to > > the user as an application/octet-stream with the name > > "tissue_dump.txt". I can't figure out the correct wa

no get_handlers in Apache::Filter with Axkit

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi. I want to use the Axkit and Mason. I got this error when I try to access to an AxKit page: Can't locate object method "get_handlers" via package "Apache::Filter" at /usr/local/web07/perl/lib/site_perl/5.8.6/Apache/Filter.pm line 106. Mason pages run

Re: Output a page for download

Hi, use $r->content_type('application/octet-stream); to set the content type in tissue_dump.txt if file exist and is processed as Mason component (or in dhandler if does not exist). I expect code will looks like $r->content_type('application/octet-stream'); # set content type $m->print($out

Re: Output a page for download

hi ( 05.01.12 09:38 -0500 ) Sean Davis: > I would like to output tab-delimited text (from a database lookup) to > the user as an application/octet-stream with the name > "tissue_dump.txt". I can't figure out the correct way to set the > headers under mod_perl. Any help? you could buy the boo

Output a page for download

A basic question, but I would like to output tab-delimited text (from a database lookup) to the user as an application/octet-stream with the name "tissue_dump.txt". I can't figure out the correct way to set the headers under mod_perl. Any help? Thanks, Sean