Re: Perl 5 Module List
Anthony Thyssen (anthony@cit.gu.edu.au)
Wed, 1 Mar 1995 10:14:11 +1000
Martijn Koster <m.koster@nexor.co.uk> writes:
| Maybe for a future version, but proxifying should probably
| be integrated closer into WWW::Request, something like.
|
| ...
|
| This allows far finer control than environment variable currently do.
| Then you can have $request->request() try proxies for unsupported
| schemes instead of dying, and you'd have instant support for Gopher,
| News etc. :-)
|
| I really like this design. Is there anything we've missed out that we
| might regret? It looks like client-side format transformation and
| caching can be added without upsetting the API. I guess interrupts and
| multi-threading might be different, but will probably have to wait
| until Perl supports it anyway... We will need HTML parsing, but that
| should be completely separate. Anything else?
|
| -- Martijn
With all this discussion on the perl 5 library, what is happening to the
perl 4 version. Has someone created a better FTP module for it,
say one which allows `HEAD' requests to return if the file/directory
exists and what its date is etc? Or at least does NOT save to a
file and returning a fake html document? :-( What about a gopher module?
It would be good for this library to be continued, especially as it will
be sometime before people leave the well defined (home sweet home)
environment of perl4.036. Not to mention that this is the version with
published books and guides and is being shipped.
Anthony Thyssen ( System Programmer ) http://www.cit.gu.edu.au/~anthony/
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