Of course, I should have tried out print ref $r;, but my brain wouldn't allow me to see the obvious.

Ok, that proves that mod_perl is a bigger black box to me than I originally thought.

So, I guess the question I should be asking is: what is the best way to accomplish what I'm trying to do?

I'm beginning to believe that subclassing the request is not the best way to do it, as the $r object I've been passing around in every mod_perl project I've ever worked on is not, in fact, an Apache::Request.

If I do something like this:

sub handler{
 my $apr = shift;
 my $r = $apr->request;

 # Do something.
 return OK;
}
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Have any links to good articles discussing mod_perl internals that might be of assistance? I've gone beyond the books and links I know about, I'm affraid.

Thanks for the answer!

UPDATE: Struk out my wrongness.