Re: Status Check: libwww on !unix platforms

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On Wed, 5 Mar 1997, Graham Barr wrote:

> Tom Christiansen wrote:
> > 
> > What's the exact status of libwww on platforms other than Unix?
> 
> Well libwww uses libnet, which uses IO::Socket and as far as I am aware
> this package does not work on Micro$oft machines, but I may
> be wrong.

I maintain a script to patch LWP for Win32 machines (See 
CPAN/authors/id/MRJC/lwpWin32.pl). This is a script that you run instead of
Makefile.PL 

As far as I can remember LWP only uses libnet for ftp requests. I didn't 
patch that bit. LWP became a lot more easy to patch when Perl 5.003 was 
released; I haven't attempted to port IO::Socket again - something was 
using an XS file and my success at implementing XS on Win32 was minimal.

Cheers,
	Martin.

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