From: Jürgen Kreileder <jk@blackdown.de>
Date: Mon, 28 Nov 2011 21:42:16 GMT
Subject: Re: gitweb: in-page errors don't work with mod_perl
Message-ID: <CAKD0UuzsV7A_j8YD4b0Lb95L2NcRcSu5PH8C9aZQmEx3tOuQjQ@mail.gmail.com>
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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.


Juergen