Subject: Announce: Apache::Roaming-0.1000
From: Jochen Wiedmann <[email-masked]>
Date: 7 Jan 1999 19:41:08 GMT
Newsgroups: comp.lang.perl.announce,comp.lang.perl.modules

Hi,

I'd like to announce Apache::Roaming, a PUT/GET/MOVE/DELETE handler
designed for making Apache a server for Netscape roaming profiles,
as supported by Netscape Communicator 4.5.

The source is based on Vincent Partington's ([email-masked])
mod_roaming, an Apache module for the same purpose. The main
advantage of Apache::Roaming is that it is subclassable. For example
the first release includes a package Apache::Roaming::LiPrefs, that
can create, parse and modify the liprefs files users are loading
down. So you can fix the users proxy settings, for example.
The main disadvantages, compared to mod_roaming are obvious:
Mod_perl is required and it is slower. See

  http://www.xs4all.nl/~vincentp/software/mod_roaming.html

for details on mod_roaming. Apache::Roaming is available from any
CPAN mirror, in particular

  ftp://ftp.funet.fi/pub/languages/perl/CPAN/modules/by-module/Apache

Bye,

Jochen

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