Re: [MacPerl] MacPerl and IO::Socket::peeraddr()

["Paul L. Suh" <psuh@apple.com>]

On 4/6/99 6:25 PM, Paul L. Suh psuh@apple.com tickled the keyboard to say:

>I have a problem with one of the examples from the documentation, in
>the perlipc.pod file.  In the section on using IO::Socket, there is an
>example of creating a server using ->new() and then ->accept() and
>then getting a client socket back.  However, the call
>
>$client->peeraddr;
>
>fails with an error that the field is empty.  No matter what I try, I
>cannot get data on the address of the client who has accessed my
>server.  Has anyone encountered this before?  How can I locate the
>address of the client who is hitting my server?  I'd like to keep it
>OO using IO::Socket if I can.  

OK, so I'm following up my own post.  

After extensive snooping around, I discovered that the version of the 
IO.pm package that is included with the MacPerl 5.2.0r4 distribution is 
quite a bit behind the current version; 1.1604 is the one in the 
distribution and 1.20 is the current package on CPAN.  There are a number 
of items in the change log that could affect my problem.  

I've never built a Mac .xs and thus I don't have a toolserver set-up 
already to handle this, so if someone who has built .xs's before can 
re-build the IO.pm module, I would be grateful.  

However, until this happens I will have to go back to old procedural 
sockets as I want to get this project done soon.  If nobody does 
anything, I may get grumpy and go ahead and figure out how to do the 
build myself when I have time.  


--Paul

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