freebsd-ports/www/p5-MasonX-WebApp/pkg-descr
Doug Barton 989772c9ac The vast majority of pkg-descr files had the following format when they
had both lines:

Author: ...
WWW: ....

So standardize on that, and move them to the end of the file when necessary.

Also fix some more whitespace, and remove more "signature tags" of varying
forms, like -- name, etc.

s/AUTHOR/Author/

A few other various formatting issues
2011-10-24 09:11:38 +00:00

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MasonX::WebApp works with Mason to let you do processing before Mason is ever
invoked. There are a number of things that one might want to do:
* Argument munging
You might want to make sure all incoming arguments are UTF-8 encoded.
Or you might want to create some objects which Mason will see as
incoming arguments. For example, a "user_id" parameter could be turned
into a user object.
* Handle requests without Mason
If you're not generating output for the browser other than a redirect,
then there's no reason to use Mason. You can use a MasonX::WebApp
subclass to handle all form submissions, for example.
This has the added benefit of making it easier to preload this code
once during server startup.
* And others ...
Author: Dave Rolsky <autarch@urth.org>
WWW: http://search.cpan.org/dist/MasonX-WebApp/