[Jax.PM] Re: perl HTTP header insertion proxy

[WC -Sx- Jones]

On Thursday, May 15, 2003, at 02:10  AM, Nate Campi wrote:
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> I cannot crawl the filesystem to add the executable bit since I have at
> least a million files in my docroot.

Owie?  :)   How the heck are 'dem inodes doin' ?  Are you running out 
of file handles on lookups?  Is that a SUN box or Linux?  We are 
waaaaayyyyyy off Perl here =)

Seriously, you might could schedule a sleeper to crawl the file system 
during system idle prolly.  At 2:30AM I prolly need to sleep now...


> I know you know Apache well Bill, but I've done my homework.

I can see that you have indeed  :)  You make an old ApacheCon speaker 
proud =)

The Kabir book is old and in fact out of print; being published in '99 
it had to have been written before '98 -- and likely it is time I moved 
on to a more recent edition (alas none is available nor planned that I 
can tell); but I hesitate to adopt any other because I see so many 
books about Apache leave out so much.  Kabir's book, I feel, is still 
the standard for covering nuts-and-bolts of Apache.  What I should do 
is see if the publisher/author will allow me access to rewrite and 
update that edition.

I feel a "group project" emerging - what do you think Nate?


Anyways, one last stab at the original issue - but from an Apache 2.0 
stand-point:

Apache 2.0 accepts and handles other protocols besides HTTP - as you 
prolly know - there is a SMTP module already out to show off this 
feature.  Have you thought about modifying the 2.0 stuff to make it do 
what you want?  Maybe there is another 'feature' or module interfering 
with the desired operation you are expecting?  I'll get a newer Apache 
2.x  (there are CAN and CERT advisories out regarding other editions) 
and will look at it further  :)

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