Anyone still around that is familiar with Apache::ASP's internals?

On Thu, Apr 23, 2009 at 10:47:42AM -0700, Bill Moseley wrote:
> Is there a purpose for using a cleanup handler (to call DESTROY) in
> Apache::ASP instead of cleaning up at the end of the response handler?
>
> What looks like happened is that due to circular references DESTROY
> was not getting called at the end of the request so that a handler was
> used to explicitly call DESTROY. But, I'm not clear if there were
> other reasons (e.g. need to keep the Apache::ASP object around after
> the response was completed). Is there another reason?
>
> The Apache::ASP object holds child objects that reference the
> Apache::ASP parent object. Those could be weakened. Also $Session,
> $Application, etc. are not localized when running an .asp page so they
> hold references until the following request when they are set again
> (via InitPackageGlobals).
>
> Thanks,

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Bill Moseley.
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