[cgi-prototype-users] Notes of moving a site from HTML::Mason to CGI::Prototype

[Terrence B. <ba...@me...>]

I'm happy to say that HTML::Mason has been completely removed from my
personal website:

   http://www.livingcosmos.org/

It was fairly easy to write a subclass of CGIP whose render phase took
an HTML file and templated it. I just needed a RewriteRule to push all
html files to the CGIP subclass:

    RewriteRule ^/(.+)[.]s?html$   /cgi-bin/lc.cgi/$1.html   [PT]

and then I used PATH_TRANSLATED to serve the HTML file:

sub dispatch {
  my $self = shift;
  my $p = $ENV{PATH_TRANSLATED};
  $p =~ s!cgi-bin.+lc.cgi/!!;

  $self->reflect->addSlot(file_path => $p);

  $self->pkg_for_path($p) ;
}


sub pkg_for_path {
  my ($self, $path) = @_;

  my $M = Tie::RegexpHash->new;

  $M->add( qr,vots/index.html, => 'App::vots' ) ;

  if (my $new_page = $M->match($path)) {
    eval "require $new_page";
    die $@ if $@;

    warn 'NP', $new_page;
    $new_page;
  } else {
    return $self;
  }

}



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