Re: LibWWW-perl on NTperl5.001m
Tim Bunce (Tim.Bunce@ig.co.uk)
Thu, 1 Feb 1996 16:52:09 +0000
> From: Gisle Aas <aas@bergen.sn.no>
>
> In message <199602011320.IAA04072@moose.tiac.net>, Ed Dean writes:
> > I am not, but I have ported network.pl and www.pl.
> > They work fine. I'ld be happy to port LibWWW-perl5b6
> > as I'ld like to comper it what I have. I've been doing a lot of internet
> > perl programming lately on NT. Do you have pointer to it,
> > if no one else has ported it yet?
>
> Libwww-perl-5b6 can be obtained from <URL:http://www.sn.no/libwww-perl/> and
> from CPAN <URL:ftp://ftp.funet.fi/pub/languages/perl/CPAN/CPAN.html>.
>
> In order to port the library you will probably have to take a look at
> how LWP::Socket and LWP::IO use the perl Socket module and perl
> network functions. A rumour says that that NTperl lacks the Socket.pm
> module, it that correct?
Originally yes - HIP had provided only a WinSock module!
After complaints it was fixed. It now has a Socket module (with
non-standard winsock extensions).
Tim.