[Catalyst] Serving static content

[Marcello]

Perrin Harkins ha scritto:
> On Thu, 2005-06-09 at 17:31 +0100, Chisel Wright wrote:
> 
>>I'm a tad confused about some different behaviour between ap_server.pl
>>and app_test.pl.
>>
>>I have a tiny app with a comtroller Static.pm, containing a default
>>method and a begin method:
>>
>>sub default : Private {
>>  my ( $self, $c ) = @_;
>>  unless ($c->serve_static) {
>>    $c->res->output('static content not found');
>>  }
>>}
> 
> 
> May I ask why you're serving static content from Catalyst?  I know
> there's a plugin, but I'm not sure why.  Is it so you can do some kind
> of auth checking in Catalyst?

Static content would be better served by apache than any mod_perl app, 
but moving it out of Catalyst you end up having no static content when 
using script/MyApp_server.pl; also, no auth checking would be performed 
on those files.

> 
> - Perrin
> 

Marcello

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