Adds perl capability to the web server Aolserver. A perl script can: return content, get other web pages, make SQL queries and more. Planned: full access to aolserver api (in progress: this is the base layer); and a second, easy-to-use layer on top.
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This is to announce perl-aol version 0.0.4. Information links: Main perl-aol summary page: http://sourceforge.net/projects/perl-aol Discussion forums: http://sourceforge.net/forum/?group_id=13673 The Code: http://cvs.sourceforge.net/cgi-bin/viewcvs.cgi/perl-aol/perl-aol/ Some example/testing scripts (I use these to find out if perl-aol is working): http://cvs.sourceforge.net/cgi-bin/viewcvs.cgi/perl-aol/test-scripts/ What's new: A new data structure has been implemented in each of the aolserver data structures as held inside a perl interpreter, such that new variables can more easily be added. One such variable that has been added to all the different data structure types, is a variable that specifies to the internals of perl whether or not the bare aolserver data structure is owned by perl (which it is if it was created inside a script). The reason any of this is necessary, is because aolserver has certain variables that perl scripts should not be altering or deallocating/destroying/freeing. So, each instance will have such a variable, and if it is set to TRUE, then perl will only deallocate the perl parts of the instance, but not the part native to aolserver. The old method involved altering parts of the perl infrastructure for an instance to "lie" and indicate that there never was allocated the actual aolserver-native structure. In this new version, all such mechanism (thought to be unstable) has been removed, in favor of this "ownership" indication. It is hoped this new version will offer a high degree of stability to what is presently implemented, and to the parts that will be implemented in the future. -Jim
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