Apache::HookRun - Perl API for Invoking Apache HTTP phases
# httpd.conf PerlProcessConnectionHandler MyApache::PseudoHTTP::handler #file:MyApache/PseudoHTTP.pm #--------------------------- package MyApache::PseudoHTTP; use Apache::HookRun (); use Apache::RequestUtil (); use Apache::RequestRec (); use Apache::Const -compile => qw(OK DECLINED DONE SERVER_ERROR); # implement the HTTP protocol cycle in protocol handler sub handler { my $c = shift; my $r = Apache::RequestRec->new($c); # register any custom callbacks here, e.g.: # $r->push_handlers(PerlAccessHandler => \&my_access); $rc = $r->run_post_read_request(); return $rc unless $rc == Apache::OK or $rc == Apache::DECLINED; $rc = $r->run_translate_name; return $rc unless $rc == Apache::OK or $rc == Apache::DECLINED; $rc = $r->run_map_to_storage; return $rc unless $rc == Apache::OK or $rc == Apache::DECLINED; # this must be run all a big havoc will happen in the following # phases $r->location_merge($path); $rc = $r->run_header_parser; return $rc unless $rc == Apache::OK or $rc == Apache::DECLINED; my $args = $r->args || ''; if ($args eq 'die') { $r->die(Apache::SERVER_ERROR); return Apache::DONE; } $rc = $r->run_access_checker; return $rc unless $rc == Apache::OK or $rc == Apache::DECLINED; $rc = $r->run_auth_checker; return $rc unless $rc == Apache::OK or $rc == Apache::DECLINED; $rc = $r->run_check_user_id; return $rc unless $rc == Apache::OK or $rc == Apache::DECLINED; $rc = $r->run_type_checker; return $rc unless $rc == Apache::OK or $rc == Apache::DECLINED; $rc = $r->run_fixups; return $rc unless $rc == Apache::OK or $rc == Apache::DECLINED; # $r->run_handler is called internally by $r->invoke_handler, # invoke_handler sets all kind of filters, and does a few other # things but it's possible to call $r->run_handler, bypassing # invoke_handler $rc = $r->invoke_handler; return $rc unless $rc == Apache::OK or $rc == Apache::DECLINED; $rc = $r->run_log_transaction; return $rc unless $rc == Apache::OK or $rc == Apache::DECLINED; return Apache::OK; }
Apache::HookRun exposes parts of the Apache HTTP protocol implementation, responsible for invoking callbacks for each HTTP Request cycle phase.
Apache::HookRun
Armed with that API, you could run some of the http protocol framework parts when implementing your own protocols. For example see how HTTP AAA (access, auth and authz) hooks are called from a protocol handler, implementing a command server, which has nothing to do with HTTP. Also you can see in Synopsis how to re-implement Apache HTTP cycle in the protocol handler.
Using this API you could probably also change the normal Apache behavior (e.g. invoking some hooks earlier than normal, or later), but before doing that you will probably need to spend some time reading through the Apache C code. That's why some of the methods in this document, point you to the specific functions in the Apache source code. If you just try to use the methods from this module, without understanding them well, don't be surprised if you will get some nasty crashes, from which mod_perl can't protect you.
Apache::HookRun provides the following functions and/or methods:
die
Kill the current request
$r->die($type);
$r
Apache::RequestRec object
The current request
$type
Why the request is dieing. Expects an Apache status constant.
This method doesn't really abort the request, it just handles the sending of the error response, logging the error and such. You want to take a look at the internals of ap_die() in httpd-2.0/modules/http/http_request.c for more details.
ap_die()
invoke_handler
Run the response phase.
$rc = $r->invoke_handler();
$rc
The status of the current phase run: Apache::OK, Apache::HTTP_...
Apache::OK
Apache::HTTP_...
invoke_handler() allows modules to insert filters, sets a default handler if none is set, runs run_handler() and handles some errors.
invoke_handler()
run_handler()
For more details see ap_invoke_handler() in httpd-2.0/server/config.c.
ap_invoke_handler()
run_access_checker
Run the resource access control phase.
$rc = $r->run_access_checker();
the current request
The status of the current phase run: Apache::OK, Apache::DECLINED, Apache::HTTP_....
Apache::DECLINED
This phase runs before a user is authenticated, so this hook is really to apply additional restrictions independent of a user. It also runs independent of 'Require' directive usage.
Require
run_auth_checker
Run the authentication phase.
$rc = $r->run_auth_checker();
This phase is used to check to see if the resource being requested is available for the authenticated user ($r->user and $r->ap_auth_type).
$r->user
$r->ap_auth_type
It runs after the access_checker and check_user_id hooks.
Note that it will only be called if Apache determines that access control has been applied to this resource (through a 'Require' directive).
run_check_user_id
Run the authorization phase.
$rc = $r->run_check_user_id();
This hook is used to analyze the request headers, authenticate the user, and set the user information in the request record ($r->user and $r->ap_auth_type).
This hook is only run when Apache determines that authentication/authorization is required for this resource (as determined by the 'Require' directive).
It runs after the access_checker hook, and before the auth_checker hook.
run_fixups
Run the fixup phase.
$rc = $r->run_fixups();
This phase allows modules to perform module-specific fixing of HTTP header fields. This is invoked just before the response phase.
run_handler
$rc = $r->run_handler();
The request_rec
run_handler() is called internally by invoke_handler(). Use run_handler() only if you want to bypass the extra functionality provided by invoke_handler().
run_header_parser
Run the header parser phase.
$rc = $r->run_header_parser();
Apache::OK or Apache::DECLINED.
run_log_transaction
Run the logging phase.
$rc = $r->run_log_transaction();
The status of the current phase run: Apache::OK, Apache::DECLINED, Apache::HTTP_...
This hook allows modules to perform any module-specific logging activities over and above the normal server things.
run_map_to_storage
Run the map_to_storage phase.
$rc = $r->run_map_to_storage();
Apache::DONE (or Apache::HTTP_*) if this contextless request was just fulfilled (such as TRACE), Apache::OK if this is not a file, and Apache::DECLINED if this is a file. The core map_to_storage (Apache::HOOK_RUN_LAST) will directory_walk() and file_walk() the $r->filename (all internal C functions).
Apache::DONE
Apache::HTTP_*
TRACE
Apache::HOOK_RUN_LAST
directory_walk()
file_walk()
$r->filename
This phase allows modules to set the per_dir_config based on their own context (such as <Proxy> sections) and responds to contextless requests such as TRACE that need no security or filesystem mapping based on the filesystem.
<Proxy>
run_post_read_request
Run the post_read_request phase.
$rc = $r->run_post_read_request();
The status of the current phase run: Apache::OK or Apache::DECLINED.
This phase is run right after read_request() or internal_redirect(), and not run during any subrequests. This hook allows modules to affect the request immediately after the request has been read, and before any other phases have been processes. This allows modules to make decisions based upon the input header fields
read_request()
internal_redirect()
run_translate_name
Run the translate phase.
$rc = $r->run_translate_name();
This phase gives modules an opportunity to translate the URI into an actual filename. If no modules do anything special, the server's default rules will be applied.
run_type_checker
Run the type_checker phase.
$rc = $r->run_type_checker();
This phase is used to determine and/or set the various document type information bits, like Content-type (via $r->content_type), language, etc.
Content-type
$r->content_type
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