Newbie help: linux, perl5.004, libwww-perl-5.10
Bill Baker (bill@austx.tandem.com)
Fri, 18 Jul 1997 22:28:30 -0500 (CDT)
This is my story (much abridged):
I pulled libwww-perl-5.10 from CPAN last weekend. Got the other
required packages (MIME-Base64-2.03, IO-1.15 libnet-1.0505 MD5-1.7
and Data-Dumper-2.07 which libnet-1.0505 required). I built them
all with no problems and built a nifty (for me anyway) tool to
update my stock portfolio's prices by pulling quotes from my
favorite Web site. (I figure I'm probably re-inventing the wheel
here but I'm just learning Perl and I figured this would be a fun
way to do it.)
Last weekend everything worked great and in no time (well 4 hours)
I had a reasonable little tool.
Then my Linux system disk crashed late Sunday night. :<
I had almost everything backed up, except all the Perl stuff I'd
pulled down on Saturday.
I've gotten my machine back to health and everything is working again,
except my perl tool.
The following 2-liner doesn't work:
use LWP::Simple;
getprint('http://www.dummies.com');
(Now you know where I got the libwww-perl ideas from. Don't panic!
I also have "Programming Perl" by Wall, et.al. from O'Reilly. I'm
not really a 'dummy'.)
The getprint never returns. No activity across my Lan (I've got an
ISDN router with my machine on a private 10baseT so I can see the
activity LEDs light or in this case not light).
I can get to the sites I try to load with getprint using Netscape with
out a problem.
I checked the configuration that libnet requested with my company's
network support folk so I'm very sure I have the right names for
the hosts and domains it requested.
So, oh great net wisdom, what happened? I obviously did something
different between last weekend and tonight, but I haven't a clue
as to what. (I would be pulling my hair out but male pattern
baldness beat me to it.)
Any helpful (or humorous) suggestions would be greatly appreciated.
Bill Baker
Senior Software Designer
Tandem Computers
Austin, TX
bill@austx.tandem.com