--------------------------------------------------------------------------- 24 February 2004 Jeffrey W. Baker --------------------------------------------------------------------------- DESCRIPTION ----------- This is Apache::Session 1.6 These modules provide persistent storage for arbitrary data, in arbitrary backing stores. The details of interacting with the backing store are abstracted to make all backing stores behave alike. The programmer simply interacts with a tied hash. Apache::Session is Copyright (c) 1998, 1999, 2000, 2001, 2004 Jeffrey William Baker . Distribute under the same terms as Perl itself. PREREQUISITES ------------- No particular modules are required, but most of Apache::Session's functions require Digest::MD5 and Storable. If you wish to use the DBI backing stores, you need the latest version of DBI and the driver for your database. Currently MySQL, Postgres, and Oracle are supported. INSTALLATION ------------ tar -xvzf Apache-Session-1.6.tar.gz cd Apache-Session-1.6 perl Makefile.PL make make test make install Substitute "nmake" for "make" above if you are using Windows. EXAMPLE ------- See eg/example.perl. This program is intended to be run under mod_perl. AUTHORS ------- Jeffrey Baker is the author of Apache::Session. Tatsuhiko Miyagawa is the author of Generate::ModUniqueID and Generate::ModUsertrack Erik Rantapaa found errors in both Lock::File and Store::File Bart Schaefer notified me of a bug in Lock::File. Chris Winters contributed the Sybase code. Michael Schout fixed a commit policy bug in 1.51. Andreas J. Koenig contributed valuable CPAN advice and also Apache::Session::Tree and Apache::Session::Counted. Gerald Richter had the idea for a tied hash interface and provided the initial code for it. He also uses Apache::Session in his Embperl module and is the author of Apache::Session::Embperl Jochen Wiedmann contributed patches for bugs and improved performance. Steve Shreeve squashed a bug in 0.99.0 whereby a cleared hash or deleted key failed to set the modified bit. Peter Kaas sent quite a bit of feedback with ideas for interface improvements. Randy Harmon contributed the original storage-independent object interface with input from: Bavo De Ridder Jules Bean Lincoln Stein Scott McWhirter contributed verbose error messages for file locking. Corris Randall gave us the option to use any table name in the MySQL store. Oliver Maul updated the Sybase modules Innumerable users sent a patch for the reversed file age test in the file locking module. Mike Langen contributed Informix modules. FURTHER INFORMATION: -------------------- Apache by Apache Group comp.infosystems.www.servers.unix http://www.apache.org/ mod_perl by Doug MacEachern modperl@apache.org http://perl.apache.org/