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Apache HTTP Server Request Library |
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What is it? |
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httpd-apreq is subproject of the Apache HTTP Server Project |
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whose committers develop and maintain the libapreq C library |
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and its language bindings for Perl (contributions for additional |
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language bindings are most welcome). |
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libapreq is a safe, standards-compliant, high-performance library |
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used for parsing HTTP cookies, query-strings and POST data. The |
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original version (libapreq-1.X) was designed by Lincoln Stein and Doug |
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MacEachern. The perl APIs Apache::Request and Apache::Cookie are the |
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lightweight mod_perl analogs of the CGI and CGI::Cookie perl modules. |
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Version 2 of libapreq is an improved codebase designed around APR |
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and Apache-2's input filter API. The C codebase is separated into |
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two independent components: |
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1) libapreq2, a shared library which is based on |
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libapr and libaprutil. |
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2) A collection of modules: |
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- mod_apreq2, a filter module for the Apache 2.X webserver, |
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- a CGI module included in libapreq2 itself, |
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- a custom module for general applications. |
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Version 2 also includes the perl APIs for libapreq2- Apache2::Request, |
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Apache2::Upload and Apache2::Cookie. The corresponding XS modules |
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are generated by ExtUtils::XSBuilder, which is based on the new build |
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system created specifically for mod_perl2. |
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The Latest Version |
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Details of the latest version can be found on the libapreq |
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project page at |
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https://httpd.apache.org/apreq |
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Documentation |
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The documentation is in the docs/ directory. It is |
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based on Doxygen, and can be regenerated by typing |
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% make docs |
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in the main directory. |
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Installation |
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For full details please consult the INSTALL file. Briefly, |
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to install just the C API (libapreq2 + environment modules) |
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on a Unix-like system: |
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% ./configure --with-apache2-apxs=/path/to/apache2/bin/apxs |
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% make |
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% make test |
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% make install |
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To build and install the perl API as well, either add |
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the "--enable-perl-glue" configure option, or let Makefile.PL |
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enable it for you: |
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% perl Makefile.PL --with-apache2-apxs=/path/to/apache2/bin/apxs |
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% make |
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% make test |
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% make install |
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Licensing |
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Please see the file called LICENSE. |
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Contacts |
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o Project homepage: |
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https://httpd.apache.org/apreq/ |
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o Mailing Lists: |
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user lists: |
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C/C++ API - modules-dev@httpd.apache.org |
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Perl API - modperl@perl.apache.org |
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Tcl API - XXX |
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Java API - XXX |
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Python API - XXX |
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developer list (bugs, patches, code contributions, etc.): |
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apreq-dev@httpd.apache.org |
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Acknowledgments |
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We wish to acknowledge the following copyrighted works that |
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make up portions of the Apache software: |
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libapreq2 relies heavily on the use of the GNU auto-tools |
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to provide a build environment. The tests are based on |
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the Apache::Test, Test::Harness and Test::Inline. |
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Doxygen generates the documentation for libapreq2. The perl glue |
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and pods are generated by ExtUtils::XSBuilder. |
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