Re: [MacPerl] , web clients in

[Dan Shoop <shoop@campmor.com>]

At 4:11 AM -0400 6/26/97, Nat Irons wrote:
>O'Reilly recently published a book on writing web clients in perl.  anybody
>know if it's any good?

The book, "Web Client Programming in Perl", by Wong, is very good and makes
provides a very thorough explanation of the HTTP protocol as well.

>How much of it, if any, realistically applies to the mac?  Can one jury-rig
>a telnet client in macperl for the purposes of bullying HTTP servers?

Just about everything still applys, though you mak want to convert line
argumnet inputs to Mac dialog boxes. The stuff on Tcl doesn't really apply
for Tcl, but you can extrapolate for the Mac using the important code
fragments. The Mac doesn't really need Tcl.


-dhan

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