[Dancer-users] working with HTTP env vars

[P Kishor]

On Thu, Aug 19, 2010 at 5:09 PM, Olaf Alders <olaf at wundersolutions.com> wrote:
> On 2010-08-19, at 3:27 PM, P Kishor wrote:
>
>>>> As far as your setup goes, you may want to at least consider something like this:
>>>
>>> http://advent.plackperl.org/2009/12/day-12-maps-multiple-apps-with-mount-and-urlmap.html
>>>
>>> "The environment variables such as PATH_INFO and SCRIPT_NAME are automatically adjusted so it just works like when your application is mounted using Apache's mod_alias or CGI scripts. Your application framework should always use PATH_INFO to dispatch requests, and concatenate with SCRIPT_NAME to build links."
>>>
>>> This should get you pretty much to the same place, but with the added advantage of being able to use Plack's debug panels etc.
>>>
>>> Hope this helps,
>>>
>>
>> wow! That Plack advent calendar is brilliant. I am learning a lot from
>> it, however, I am not sure it helps me. Since I am already using
>> Dancer, I am "supposed" to be shielded from dealing with Plack
>> directly, no? In other words, (from the quote above), Dancer should
>> give me access to PATH_INFO and SCRIPT_NAME, etc. Which is precisely
>> what I want.
>
>
> Could you post a dump of your request->env ?


this may sound very dumb, but I frankly don't know how to dump a data
structure. How do I dump the entire request->env()?




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