Re: libwww, a different approach
Martijn Koster (m.koster@nexor.co.uk)
Wed, 15 Mar 1995 16:03:43 +0000
> My class hierarchy was completely different and I feel it has several
> advantages over the hierarchy adopted by libwww-perl, but the main one
> being that protocols are loaded on demand and nothing about any protocol
> is 'hard-coded' into any package. This made the adding of a protocol as
> simple as writing it and placing the file in the correct place.
I agree that'd be nice, and it's easy enough to add. my Request.pm
hash a "hardcoded" %schemes registery, but that can easily be relaxed.
Are you using a filename convention (ie file:// is handled by
www/file.pm etc?) to intially locate the package to autoload?
-- Martijn
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