• Read section about using sub main in tye's scratchpad (search page for "stupid")

extra CSS for dark theme. This is in a node somewhere

/* i don't browse full screen to have a small textarea :) */
textarea { width: 100%; height: 300px; }

/* Code blocks in a nice white-bordered gray box */
pre tt { display: block; background-color: #404040; border: 
1px solid white; width: 90%; padding: 0px 2ex 2ex 2ex; }

/* I like a little feedback now and then */
a:hover { color: blue; }
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tosh: Playing nice in mod_perl and CGI:

Figure out my environment:

use constant HAS_MODPERL    => eval { require Apache;  };
unless ( HAS_MODPERL ) {
   require CGI;
}
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use vars qw($request %Args);
$request = HAS_MODPERL ? Apache->request : new CGI;
%Args    = HAS_MODPERL ? $request->args : $request->Vars;
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&output(\$out, $request) and exit;
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sub output {
   my $out = shift;
      $out = ref $out ? $$out : $out;
   my $request = shift;

   if ( "$request" =~ /Apache/ ) { #test class
      $request->header_out("Content-Length" => length($out));
      $request->content_type('text/html');
      $request->send_http_header;
   } else {
      print $request->header(-type   => 'text/html',
                             -length => length($out) );
   }
   print $out;
}
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