Re: Plack/PSGI support?

[Chris Travers <..hidden..>]

On Tue, Apr 3, 2012 at 11:25 AM, Jeff Kowalczyk <..hidden..> wrote:
> Chris Travers <chris.travers@...> writes:
>> The immediate problem is that the old code is not re-run safe.  There
>> are all kinds of scoping issues there.  We need to eliminate it first.
>
> I learned that Plack offers a handler for legacy CGI code, perhaps it would
> provide sufficient isolation to work.
>
> http://search.cpan.org/dist/Plack/lib/Plack/App/CGIBin.pm
>
>  For example, if your perl-based CGI script uses lots of global
>  variables and such and are not ready to run on a persistent
>  environment, you can do:
>
>    my $app = Plack::App::CGIBin->new(
>        root => "/path/to/cgi-bin",
>        exec_cb => sub { 1 },
>    )->to_app;
>  to always force the execute option for any files.

I suspect one would have to also find a way to pass the Authorization
headers as environment variables.  I assume that shouldn't be too hard
though.

Best Wishes,
Chris Travers