antoniscsd at gmail
Nov 7, 2009, 11:20 AM
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Andre thank you very much for your response.
I think that putting mod_php (if it is possible) as an output filter is
the only solution
to my project.
Regards
André Warnier wrote:
> antoine wrote:
>> Eric Covener wrote:
>>> On Thu, Nov 5, 2009 at 10:25 AM, antoine <antoniscsd[at]gmail.com> wrote:
>>>
>>>> The first one(mine) adds some stuff to the html body and the
>>>> second one is the mod_php that takes the first's results and gives the
>>>> client the final page.
>>>>
>>>>
>>>
>>> Is running PHP as a filter deprecated? That'd be an option.
>>>
>>>
>> Sorry can you explain better. Thanks
>>
>
> Let me roll back a little bit, and then get back to Erik's question
> above.
>
> Basically, there can only be one Apache "response generator" module.
>
> There can be "input" filters before : they filter the HTTP request and
> can do something to the request, but not to the result yet, because it
> is not yet created.
>
> Then there is one "response generator". That is the one which
> (usually) gets the basic document from disk (or creates it from
> scratch), modifies it or not, and produces the HTTP response.
>
> Then there can be more "output" filters, which act on the response
> already produced by the response generator above, and can modify it
> some more.
>
> I am unfamiliar with mod_php, but I imagine that it usually functions
> itself like the "response genrator" above. Thus, it picks up a
> document from disk, examines it to see if it contains any php to
> process, and if yes it processes this php and modifies the original
> document accordingly. Then it sends out the result as an HTTP response.
>
> If that is how it works, then it is going to be difficult for you to
> insert something else before it. Because then, your module would have
> to pick up the page from disk, do something to it, and then figure out
> a way to pass that modified document to mod_php to process. But
> mod_php wants to pick up the original from disk also, so you have a
> problem.
>
> On the other hand, if mod_php, like Erik mentions above, can also be
> configured to work as an output filter (instead of as the content
> generator), then this may be the solution.
> Your module could then be "content generator" : pick up the original
> document from disk, produce a HTTP response, and that response would
> then be processed by mod_php acting as an output filter.
>
> Got it ?
> Now you have to check yourself if mod_php /can/ be configured to work
> as an output filter, like Erik seems to hint that it can, or could.
>
>
>
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