I have started with major hacks on top of Lincoln's version 2.23 of CGI.pm in order to get rid of both AUTOLOADING and uncontrolled global variables.
I release this package as CGI::XA (which stands for "for Apache") for a limited audience as a test case.
This software is alpha software and it is not clear if it will be supported for a longer time. My preferred solution would be, Lincoln accepts all the changes and continues with his excellent work.
No AUTOLOAD use strict clean no exports no cgi-lib.pl compatibility no "Q" namespace inlined rearrange
This code is faster than Lincoln's too:
Benchmark: timing 1000 iterations of cginamed, cgipos, fastnamed, fastpos... cginamed: 7 secs ( 5.84 usr 0.08 sys = 5.92 cpu) cgipos: 4 secs ( 3.48 usr 0.01 sys = 3.49 cpu) fastnamed: 3 secs ( 3.17 usr 0.01 sys = 3.18 cpu) fastpos: 3 secs ( 2.91 usr 0.01 sys = 2.92 cpu)
The benchmark is done with the script in eg/bench.rearrange
And with the small test script eg/rgy-cgi-pm2.pl (A CGI that runs a counter and a time and a textfield, I could run 100 loops in 12 seconds on an Indy 100 MHz, not a terrific fast machine. The script on the other end of the connection is eg/rgy-cgi-pm2.client.
CGI::Switch -----------
With this very simple module you can run the identical script from your cgi-bin directory as a CGI script and from your perl alias script as a apache subroutine. See eg/rgy-cgi-pm2.pl for an example.
Enjoy, Andreas, 19 Aug, 1996
To install Apache, copy and paste the appropriate command in to your terminal.
cpanm
cpanm Apache
CPAN shell
perl -MCPAN -e shell install Apache
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