6 Sep 2000 (when RSA Security Inc. placed its public key encryption
algorithm into the public domain). Remove configure patch that
added the no-longer-needed --with-rsaref option
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These modules are supposed to be used with the Apache server together with
an embedded Perl interpreter like mod_perl. They provide support for basic
authentication and authorization as well as support for persistent
database connections via Perl's Database Independent Interface (DBI).
o AuthDBI.pm provides authentication and authorization:
- optional shared cache for passwords to minimize database load
- configurable cleanup-handler deletes outdated entries from the cache
o DBI.pm provides persistent database connections:
- connections can be established during server-startup
- configurable rollback to ensure data integrity
- configurable verification of the connections to avoid time-outs.
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Tested on i386 (by Pavel), SPARC (by me). Needs testing on m68k-based
systems.
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The Apache/Perl integration project brings together the full power of the
Perl programming language and the Apache HTTP server. This is achieved by
linking the Perl runtime library into the server and providing an object
oriented Perl interface to the server's C language API.
These pieces are seamlessly glued together by the `mod_perl' server
plugin, making it is possible to write Apache modules entirely in Perl.
In addition, the persistent interpreter embedded in the server avoids the
overhead of starting an external interpreter program and the additional
Perl start-up (compile) time.
This leads to three packages:
pine, pine+pico, pico
Note that pine does not depend on pico, since it links with the static
libpico library.
The old pine package corresponds to the newer pine+pico package.
