Re: [MacPerl] LWP status?

[pudge@pobox.com (Chris Nandor)]

At 20.33 97/4/24, Vicki Brown wrote:
>I just got a copy of a nifty looking O'Reilly book called "Web Client
>Programming with Perl" which discusses using Perl to batch-automate http
>queries, bypassing the Browser.  To make it all work, however, one needs a
>Perl WWW access library called LPW.

The book finally came out??  It was supposed to be released in the fall and
never was.  Last I checked (March) it still wasn't out.  I'll have to go
get me a copy!

>Apparently this library only works with Perl 5, and there are some
>indications that it only works (yet) with Unix; the author says that
>Windows versions are not yet completely ported.  He says nothing at all
>about a Mac version.

Paul Schinder is the man.  He's been keeping the module MacPerl-ready.

        http://mors.gsfc.nasa.gov/MacPerl.html

BTW, it is LWP, not LPW.  It stands for libwww-perl.

Have fun,

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