ANNOUNCE: MasonX::WebApp 0.01

This is the first release of this code, and it's probably buggy, but I
think it's pretty neat.

From the docs ...

=head1 SYNOPSIS

  # Create a subclass of MasonX::WebApp
  package My::WebApp;

  use base 'MasonX::WebApp';

  sub _init
  {
      # do neat stuff
  }

  # In your Apache config file

  <Location />
    SetHandler   perl-script
    PerlHandler  My::WebApp
  </Location>

=head1 DESCRIPTION

C<MasonX::WebApp> works with Mason to let you do processing I<before>
Mason is ever invoked.  There are a number of things that one might
want to do:

=over 4

=item * Argument munging

You might want to make sure all incoming arguments are UTF-8 encoded.
Or you might want to create some objects which Mason will see as
incoming arguments.  For example, a "user_id" parameter could be
turned into a user object.

=item * Handle requests without Mason

If you're not generating output for the browser other than a redirect,
then there's no reason to use Mason.  You can use a C<MasonX::WebApp>
subclass to handle all form submissions, for example.

This has the added benefit of making it easier to preload this code
once during server startup.

=item * Authorization checks

Why do authorization checks in Mason if a failed check just leads to a
redirect or NOT FOUND return code?

=back



-dave

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