a small follow-up below -- On Oct 12, 2011, at 2:06 PM, Puneet Kishor wrote:

On Oct 12, 2011, at 2:51 PM, Joel Roth wrote:

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On Wed, Oct 12, 2011 at 12:52:06PM -0500, Puneet Kishor wrote:

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random, in other words, not easy to reproduce.

I have

get '/present/:page_name' => sub { .. };

followed by

get '/*?' => sub { .. };

Yet, from time to time, a regular web page, meant to be picked up the second route above, gets picked up by the first route, thereby sending the wrong html template.

As I said, I can't reliably reproduce it, but from time to time, when I load my web site at

http://punkish.org/The-Paradigm,-The-Framework,-and-The-Instantiation

(notice, no "present" in the path_info), I get the wrong template.

Please, please... my favorite Perl-thing, please don't turn buggy on me. I have close to a dozen apps riding on this, and I want it to be rock-solid-reliable.

Hi,

When I successively reload this link, it alternates not-quite regularly between a white-characters-on-black background, and dark-characters-on-white template.

Reloading in succession, each format displays between one and three times.

Every time I reload, the displayed photo changes.

What I (naively) wonder is if you might be inadvertently retaining some state information.

Maybe you've fixed it, because at the end of writing this email, the templating is stable.

Hi Joel, Many thanks for checking it out and confirming my fears.

I haven't fixed anything. It is just random. The white characters on black background is "wrong" as it should appear only when /present/ is present in the route. That URI I gave above should always, 100% of the time, show black characters on white background. Yes, the photo should change as that is randomly selected.

This is very disconcerting.

as I mentioned above, which template is used is (or should be) determined solely by the route used. And, needless to say, the "presentation" template is exclusively within the `get '/present/:page_name'` route. The app doesn't even have any logins or any session implementation from me. Other than the fact that it is running on Starman, which, I guess, makes it a persistent application. I can understand that if I had a web page accessible at punkish.org/present (being a stand alone, regular, black characters on white bg page) then that would conflict with punkish.org/present/a_page (being a route delivering a white chars on black bg presentation of a page called "a_page"). But, that is not the case. Très bizarre. Puneet.