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NAME

OpenInteract - mod_perl handler to process all OpenInteract requests

DESCRIPTION

This documentation is for the OpenInteract Apache content handler. For general information about OpenInteract, see OpenInteract::Intro.

This content handler creates the OpenInteract::Request object and farms requests out to all the relevant handlers -- cookies, session, authentication, themes, etc.

We walk through a number of steps here. They are probably self-evident by checking out the code, but just to be on the safe side:

  • Retrieve the StashClass from the Apache config

  • Grab the Config object from the StashClass

  • Create/retrieve the request object.

  • Create the Apache::Request object

  • Create the config (if it is not already around)

  • Create the cache object if we are supposed to use it

  • Parse the URL and decide which conductor (UI) should take care of the request

  • Get the cookies

  • Recreate the session if possible

  • Authenticate the user

  • Get the groups the user belongs to

  • Create the theme

  • Retrieve the page from the conductor

  • Save the session

  • Bake the cookies (put them into outgoing headers)

  • Send the http header(s)

  • Send the content

  • Cleanup

NOTES

If you get an error with something like:

Can't locate object method "cookies" via package "OpenInteract::Request" at /usr/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.6.1/OpenInteract.pm line 226.

This likely means that the OpenInteract::Request::setup_aliases() wasn't run. Typically this is run in the PerlChildInitHandler when an Apache child is first created. This points to a larger problem if it is not run. (What exactly is that larger problem? Still working on that...)

TO DO

Nothing known

BUGS

None known

COPYRIGHT

Copyright (c) 2001 intes.net, inc.. All rights reserved.

This library is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the same terms as Perl itself.

AUTHORS

Chris Winters <chris@cwinters.com>