Re: Alternatives to CGI perl module
Dr James Smith <[email protected]>
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CGI.pm is still good - but i you are using modperl "properly" then it is worth look at APR, which when you use CGI.pm under mod_perl it is what is used under the hood... and is faster than CGI (one less level of abstraction) although there is a minor bug in it - in that is broken if you use modperl when it doesn't expand the environment. We moved away from CGI to using APR as this made life in our mod_perl framework. Yes you can look at PSGI and Plack - but in our situation we found quite a number of issues causing DOS attacks in this setup - some of our requests are very heavy and we wanted to selectively choose multiple layers (as in different combinations of handlers) to the application - both things PSGI/Plack's design doesn't like. Also we have 100s of applications running on the same server which doesn't work nicely in the plack environment - multiple servers would really be required which adds to server over head... As for templates - invariably if you want to apply sitewide style to a site they are the WRONG solution - but I've had this debate with many people and most don't see the point - until I point out how simple I can change the way tables work on a site... It does involve writing good CSS/JS and not relying on the presentational frameworks which are get far to common place! --- This email has been checked for viruses by Avast antivirus software. https://www.avast.com/antivirus -- The Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute is operated by Genome Research Limited, a charity registered in England with number 1021457 and a company registered in England with number 2742969, whose registered office is 215 Euston Road, London, NW1 2BE.