Re: [MacPerl] socket communications on a Mac

["Thomas R. Kimpton" <tkimpton@maned.com>]

>Is it possible to make an internet socket connection work on a Mac in the 
>same manner as with Unix?
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I worked with it briefly, pointing the URL to a page on a local
server. When you cmd-. and get out of the script, then look at
the error_log of the web server, the error is:
	request failed for 199.224.118.222: error reading the headers

After monkeying around, here's the scoop:

# Add this line near the top
$NWNL = "\r\n";		# Network New line (carriage-return,line-feed)

#change this line:
$http_version = "HTTP/1.0\n\n";

# to
$http_version = "HTTP/1.0$NWNL$NWNL";

And things will be happy.  Actually just simple $NWNL = "\r" or "\012";
would work as well, the daemon is expecting an ASCII newline. I add
them both, in case some abberant daemon wants them :-) \n, in MacPerl,
translates to \015, carriage return.

Tom 'Been bitten by this before' Kimpton
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Waitress: Well, there's spam egg sausage and spam, that's not got
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