slides from mod_perl talk

[Geoffrey Young <geoff@modperlcookbook.org>]

hi all...

  I had a great time last night, and I hope everyone else did as well.  I know the 
material was rather dense, but hopefully it gave you an idea what mod_perl is all about so 
that you can start to explore it on your own.  thanks for not driving me off stage with 
eggs and cabbages.

  as promised, my presentation slides (with the list of resources at the end) are 
available for all:
    http://www.modperlcookbook.org/~geoff/slides/phl.ppt (all 269 slides)
    http://www.modperlcookbook.org/~geoff/slides/phl-printable.ppt (the 61 "real" slides)

  to pay the group back for letting me ramble, I'm making the PDF version of my book 
available as well.  it's 2.3MB and I only have PDF, but it's still handy.
    http://www.modperlcookbook.org/~geoff/book/cookbook.tar.gz

  your credentials are phl/mongers which will last only a day or so, so get it while you 
can :)

  for the technically fastidious, here are some answers to questions that were posed last 
night where I either got the answer wrong or sufficiently stumbled around what I should 
have said.

  $r->the_request contains the raw data from the Request-Line, not unescaped data.

  mod_auth does not decline to operate on subrequests, and if all authentication handlers 
choose to decline the transaction Apache will throw an error.  The real reason for 
declining to handle subrequests when authenticating (which didn't come out last night) is 
that since the content from a subrequest never makes it to the client it's usually a waste 
of processing cycles to validate the user.

  I forgot to mention that there are a few caveats to the existing Apache::Filter 
implementation that I just discovered last week.  So, if you implement Apache::Filter as I 
showed it will work _most_ of the time, but not all the time.  I'll just leave it at that :)

  please feel free to email me (either privately or on the list if that's considered 
acceptable) with any other questions, comments, or whatnot - I'll happily (attempt to) 
answer just about anything.

  again, thanks...

--Geoff

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