Re: question on sub-requests

On 11/14/2012 02:48 PM, André Warnier wrote:
> I my particular case, the sendfile() solution above works fine, because
> I am sure in this case that no additional processing needs to take place
> on those static pages.

What I meant in particular was the HTTP code 304 generation. With your
solution the browser will always get a fresh copy even if the cache is
still valid.

> About returning DECLINED in a ResponseHandler : that works fine, and
> apparently has the effect of Apache serving the resource using it's
> default handler (or, I suppose, any other alternative response handler
> that may be chained).  This is consistent with the fact that a response
> handler is of type
> 
> quote
> RUN_FIRST

That's why I thought returning DECLINED should work. If you want to
switch to dedicated handler other than the default one I think you can
set it via $r->handler(newhandler). But in this case you have to hope
that the new handler is further down the handler chain. Modperl
registers its 2 response handlers with APR_HOOK_MIDDLE. So, it may
depend on the LoadModule order whether the modperl handler comes first
or newhandler.

Torsten