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Writing Apache Modules with Perl and C
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Writing Apache Modules with Perl and C

by Doug MacEachern, Lincoln Stein
April 1999
Intermediate to advanced
748 pages
20h 19m
English
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D.1. Content Handling

Apache::Album

Apache::Album sets up a virtual set of photo albums, creating thumbnail images on the fly using Image::Magick. The dynamic layout of the album allows you to configure captions, background, table borders, footers, and more.

Author

Jim Woodgate, woody@bga.com

Apache::Gateway

Apache::Gateway implements a gateway based on the HTTP 1.1 draft definition of a gateway:

Besides the standard gateway features, Apache::Gateway also implements the following:

  • Automatic failover with mirrored instances

  • Multiplexing

  • Pattern-dependent gatewaying

  • FTP directory gatewaying

  • Timestamp correction

Author

Charles C. Fu, ccwf@bacchus.com

Apache::GzipChain

Apache::GzipChain compresses the output from other Perl handlers on the fly. This is done only if the browser understands gzip encoding. To determine this, Apache::GzipChain will check both the browser's Accept-Encoding header and User-Agent header

Author

Andreas Koenig, koenig@kulturbox.de

Apache::Layer

Apache::Layer provides a handler to layer multiple content trees on top of each other. It is most useful for web sites where a high proportion of the site content is common.

Author

Simon Matthews, sam@peritas.com

Apache::Filter

Apache::Filter has similar goals as Apache::OutputChain, allowing modules to filter the output of each other.

Author

Ken Williams, ken@forum.swarthmore.edu

Apache::OutputChain

Apache::OutputChain provides a mechanism for chaining Perl content response handlers. This allows you to make filter ...

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