23 July 2000 Jeffrey Baker <jwbaker@acm.org>

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23 July 2000 Jeffrey Baker <[email protected]>

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DESCRIPTION
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This is Apache::Session 1.52.

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 Jeffrey William Baker
<[email protected]>. Distribute under the same terms as Perl itself.

PREREQUISITES
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To use this distribution of Apache::Session, you need the Storable and
MD5 modules from CPAN. If you intend to extend this module for your own
purposes, you may not need these prerequisites.

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
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tar -xvzf Apache-Session-1.52.tar.gz
cd Apache-Session-1.52
perl Makefile.PL
make
make test
make install

Substitute "nmake" for "make" above if you are using Windows.

EXAMPLE
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See eg/example.perl. This program is intended to be run under mod_perl.

AUTHORS
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Jeffrey William Baker <[email protected]> is the author of
Apache::Session.

Chris Winters <[email protected]> contributed the Sybase code.

Michael Schout <[email protected]> fixed a commit policy bug in 1.51.

Andreas J. Koenig <[email protected]> contributed valuable CPAN
advice and also Apache::Session::Tree and Apache::Session::Counted.

Gerald Richter <[email protected]> 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 <[email protected]> contributed patches for bugs and
improved performance.

Steve Shreeve <[email protected]> squashed a bug in 0.99.0 whereby
a cleared hash or deleted key failed to set the modified bit.

Peter Kaas <[email protected]> sent quite a bit of feedback
with ideas for interface improvements.

Randy Harmon <[email protected]> contributed the original
storage-independent object interface with input from:

Bavo De Ridder <[email protected]>
Jules Bean <[email protected]>
Lincoln Stein <[email protected]>

FURTHER INFORMATION:
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Apache by Apache Group comp.infosystems.www.servers.unix
http://www.apache.org/

mod_perl by Doug MacEachern [email protected]
http://perl.apache.org/