Re: Apache 2.4 Upgrade

On 6/15/2015 5:02 PM, John Dunlap wrote:
> I am getting the client ip address in every request and checking it 
> against an access control list which is stored in my database(so that 
> the user can maintain the ACL's without the assistance of an 
> administrator). These are the code snippets which are grabbing the IP 
> address:
>
> ==== Begin Snippet 1 ====
> # Check which method is available and use the correct one. For some
> # reason, remote_ip was changed to client_ip in Apache 2.4
>     if ($connection->can('client_ip')) {
>         $R->{remote_host} = $connection->client_ip();
>     } elsif($connection->can('remote_ip')) {
>         $R->{remote_host} = $connection->remote_ip();
>     } else {
> die("I don't know how to find the client's ip address");
>     }
> ==== End Snippet 1 ====
>
> ==== Begin Snippet 2 ====
>     if ($connection->can('client_ip')) { # Apache >= 2.4
>         return $connection->client_addr->ip_get;
>     } else  { # Apache <= 2.2
> return $connection->remote_addr->ip_get;
>     }
> ==== End Snippet 2 ====
Looks to me like someone has already made Apache 2.4 modifications to 
the code.

You might want to compile the mod perl 2.09-rc3 and test with that as I 
don't know what SVN version debian is working with.

regards,
KAM