Web server plugins

If your service provider enables it for your site, you can use the mod_perl plugin for the Apache Web server. The Apache/Perl integration project brings together the full power of the Perl programming language and the Apache HTTP server.

Advantages of mod_perl:

• Writes Apache modules entirely in Perl

• Save the overhead of starting an external interpreter, i.e. the penalty of Perl start-up time

• Allows you to easily do things that are more difficult or impossible in regular CGI programs,such as running sub requests

• Allows you to have full access to the inner workings of the Web server and can intervene at any stage of request-processing