Re: gitweb: in-page errors don't work with mod_perl

From: Jakub Narebski <jnareb@gmail.com>
Date: Nov 28, 2011, 22:32 UTC
Message-ID: <201111282332.07276.jnareb@gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <CAKD0UuzsV7A_j8YD4b0Lb95L2NcRcSu5PH8C9aZQmEx3tOuQjQ@mail.gmail.com>

Jürgen Kreileder wrote:

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> On Mon, Nov 28, 2011 at 21:13, Jürgen Kreileder <jk@blackdown.de> wrote:
> > On Mon, Nov 28, 2011 at 17:54, Jakub Narebski <jnareb@gmail.com> wrote:
> >  [...]
> > >
> > > The configuration is very similar.  Perhaps that is the difference between
> > > Apache 2.0.x (mine) and Apache 2.2.x (yours).
> > >
> > > Does adding `$r->err_headers_out();` before `$r->status(200);` helps?
> > > I'm grasping at straws here.  mod_perl documentation is not very helpful.
> >
> > Doesn't help unfortunately.  It's hard to find any information about
> > this on the net (except for your comment on stackoverflow :).
> >
> > The only way to get mod_perl to return a custom error message with
> > correct status code I've found so far is $r->custom_response($status,
> > $msg).  Unfortunately mod_perl then ignores headers I set, e.g.
> > content-type.
> 
> I guess this explains it:
> http://foertsch.name/ModPerl-Tricks/custom-content_type-with-custom_response.shtml
> Requires quite some restructuring to gitweb.perl.

I'm coming close to declaring that ModPerl::Registry is horribly broken with respect to error pages created by CGI, and say that we don't support it, removing mod_perl configuration examples from gitweb documentation.

WTF 'return Apache2::Const::DONE;' doesn't work with ModPerl::Registry? It is supposed to work with native mod_perl scripts...

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Jakub Narebski
Poland