NAME

Apache::No404Proxy - 404 Redirecting Proxy

SYNOPSIS

# in httpd.conf
PerlTransHandler Apache::No404Proxy # default uses ::Google

DESCRIPTION

Oops, 404 Not found. But wait..., there is a Google cache!

Apache::No404Proxy serves as a proxy server, which automaticaly detects 404 responses and redirects your browser to Google cache.

Set your browser's proxy setting to Apache::No404Proxy based server, and it becomes 404 free now!

SUBCLASSING

Default cache archive is Google's one. Here is how you customize this.

• Declare your URL translator class.

• Inherit from Apache::No404Proxy.

• Define translate() method.

That's all. Here is an example of implementation, extracted from Apache::No404Proxy::Google.

package Apache::No404Proxy::Google;

use WWW::Cache::Google;
use base qw(Apache::No404Proxy);

sub translate {
    my($class, $uri) = @_;
    return WWW::Cache::Google->new($uri)->as_string;
}

Define translate() method as a class method. Argument $uri is a string that represents URI.

At last, remember to add the following line to httpd.conf:

PerlTransHandler Apache::No404Proxy::Google

RESTRICTIONS FOR USE

Use of this proxy is restricted for personal use. Otherwise, you may or may not break terms of service of Google. See http://www.google.com/terms_of_service.html for details.

AUTHOR

Tastuhiko Miyagawa <miyagawa@bulknews.net>

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

This module comes WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY.

SEE ALSO

Apache::ProxyPassThru, LWP::UserAgent, Apache::No404Proxy::Google