From: Kirk Haines <khaines@...>
Date: 2002-10-31T00:23:47+09:00
Subject: Re: Problems installing and running IOWA

 But from where is the version 15.47.
>
> I'm beginning to wonder if the mod_iowa.so _doesn't_ use Marshal yet,
> so the unmarshalled data it is sending to the shared socket is by Ruby
> tried to be treated as marshallable data (and then some arbitrary data
> falls into the version field). There is nothing in the CVS log for
> mod_iowa.c file about adding Marshal, and the Marshal change is rather
> recent. Looks like Kirk is in the middle of something, perhaps?
>
> [kentda@v052a iowa]$ cvs diff -r1.3 -r1.4 iowa.rb|grep -i marshal
>>       r = Marshal.load(m)
>>       m = Marshal.dump(r)
> [kentda@v052a iowa]$ cvs log iowa.rb
> <SNIP>
> revision 1.4
> date: 2002/09/24 02:35:12;  author: khaines;  state: Exp;  lines: +19
> -43
> Changes to utilize Iowa::Request
> </SNIP>

Bingo!  mod_iowa is thus far untouched, so it doesn't know about
Iowa::Request.  Iowa::Request is basically a marshallable object that
carries an Apache::Request-like payload to/from the Iowa app, allowing the
Iowa app full access to HTTP headers, CGI parameters, etc....
There are also a couple other issues with what is on the CVS head that I
need to fix.  Basically, I screwed up and should have put all of this
stuff on a branch instead of the head, but didn't, so the CVS head is in
limbo until I get everything fixed.

Thanks,

Kirk Haines