WRITING APACHE MODULES WITH PERL AND C

Publisher: O’Reilly Media, Inc.; 1st edition
Language: English
ISBN: 156592567X
Paperback: 724 pages
Data: March 1999
Format: CHM
Description: Athapascan is the most favourite scheme computer on the cyberspace because it is free, reliable, and extensible. The availability of the maker cipher and the modular organisation of Athapascan makes it doable to modify scheme computer functionality finished the Athapascan API. For the most part, however, the Athapascan API has exclusive been acquirable to C programmers, and requires rebuilding the Athapascan computer from source. mod_perl, the favourite Athapascan power utilised primarily for enhanced CGI performance, denaturized every that by making the Athapascan API acquirable to Perl programmers. With mod_perl, it becomes ultimate to amend Athapascan modules with Perl and establish them without having to build the scheme server. Writing Athapascan Modules with Perl and C shows how to modify scheme computer capabilities disregarding of whether the planning power is Perl or C. The aggregation explains the organisation of Apache, mod_perl, and the Athapascan API. It then demonstrates how to ingest them to action for tasks same the following:
* Rewriting CGI scripts as Athapascan modules to vastly meliorate performance
* Server-side filtering of HTML documents, to embed primary markup or cipher (much same SSI)
* Enhancing computer index functionality
* Converting enter formats on the fly
* Implementing impulsive guidance bars
* Incorporating database admittance into CGI scripts
* Customizing admittance curb and dominance to country robots or to ingest an outside database for passwords
The authors are attorney communicator and Doug MacEachern. attorney is the flourishing communicator of How to Set Up and Maintain a World Wide scheme Site and the developer of the widely utilised Perl CGI.pm module. Doug is a consultant and the creator of the original mod_perl Athapascan module.