[Catalyst] Accessing mod_perl components

[Matt S Trout]

On Tue, Jan 17, 2006 at 05:13:06PM -0800, Dylan Vanderhoof wrote:
> Not sure if there's a Catalyst way to do this.  I'd like to be able to access some constants in Apache2::Const, as well as the lookup_file function of the mod_perl request object.
> 
> Specifically, I'd like to be able to do this: $self->r->lookup_file("<file/dir name>")->content_type; or something equivalent. 
> I'd like to be able to differentiate files from directories by doing a compare against the DIR_MAGIC_TYPE constant in Apache2::Const, which is the need for that.  Other perl magic number libraries I've tried are calling directories application/octet-stream, which is obviously not correct.  
> 
> Any suggestions here?  Is any part of mod_perl exposed to Catalyst, or is there another approach I should be taking?

http://search.cpan.org/~agrundma/Catalyst-Engine-Apache-1.06/lib/Catalyst/Engine/Apache.pm

c.f. the documentation on the 'apache' method.

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