[cgiapp] Progress with my code

[Ron Savage]

Hi Jerry

On Mon, 2010-08-23 at 09:30 -0700, Jerry Kaidor wrote:
> Hello,
> 
>      When we last left our intrepid hero, he was struggling with
> CGI::Authentication...
> 
>   OK, I got it working.  Multiple authentication databases, and a single
> "global" one that awards global permissions.   And timeouts depending on
> the IP address of the browser - long for the localnet, and short for the
> Internet.
> 
>    I used NetAddr::IP to find out if the browser address was inside the
> network defined by one of my interfaces.  That's not perfect: The
> localnet is 10.xx.xx.xx, but there are routers on it that route to
> wireless networks
> starting with 192.168.  I'm thinking maybe to just call ANY RFC1918
> compliant local address "local".  Internet gateways generally don't pass
> such addresses, and my firewall specifically drops them on the external
> interface, both for input and output.  Thinking about it....

Have a look at section 2 PREAMBLE in:

http://www.isi.edu/~bmanning/dsua.html

Is there a module on CPAN which tells you an address is/is not in one of these ranges? Probably.

If not, feel free to write one :-)).

>    I have made good progress refactoring my code.  It is now much cleaner.
>  I'm not sure what's more important: CGI::Application or
> HTML::Template.  It was especially satisfying to see all that messy
> HTML vanish out of my Perl code.  And the HTML in the templates is much
> cleaner too, because I don't have to do any quote-escaping.   I think
> the designer's decision to make HTML::Template "look like HTML" was a
> good one.
> 
>    I discovered that it's possible to have multiple templates open at the
> same time.  So I was able to use templates for individual areas on the
> pages, individual rows in the data displays, even individual columns. 
> I abandoned that last, though, because it just made things too slow,
> probably because of the cost of all the template file open()s.
> 
>    In general, the new code is slower than the old.  The initial screen (
> after login ) used to come up in about a second, now it takes two.  I
> can tolerate that as long as the individual screens inside the
> application are reasonably fast.

Consider Text::XSlate

http://search.cpan.org/~gfuji/Text-Xslate-0.1058/

http://search.cpan.org/~sgraham/Template-Benchmark-1.07/lib/Template/Benchmark.pm

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