Re: re-usage of LWP::MediaTypes

Gisle Aas (gisle@aas.no)
09 Jul 1998 07:32:56 +0200


Doug MacEachern <dougm@pobox.com> writes:

> The patch below just makes LWP::MediaTypes a bit more re-usable, if
> you wanted to, say, replace Apache's mod_mime.c with an Apache::MIME
> module.

Very nice!   It will be there in the next release.

> + Example:
> +
> + add_encoding("x-gzip" => "gz");
> +
> +=cut
> +
> +sub add_encoding
> +{
> +    my $type = shift;
> +    for my $ext (@_) {
> +	$ext =~ s/^\.//;
> +	$suffixEncoding{$ext} = $type;
> +    }
> +}

I get "Modification of a read-only value attempted" with the example
you gave.  I wished people would also update the test suite when
sending patches :-)

Regards,
Gisle