At 12:23 AM 2/26/02 +0100, Paul Johnson wrote: >On Mon, Feb 25, 2002 at 01:41:34PM -0800, Peter Scott wrote: > > At 11:15 PM 2/25/02 +0100, Paul Johnson wrote: > > >On Mon, Feb 25, 2002 at 10:01:25PM +0200, Mohammed A. Hassan wrote: > > > > > > > How can I use sockets in Perl? > > > > > >I would suggest starting off with > > > > > > perldoc -f socket > > > perldoc Socket > > > > Ooh, how low-level. > >Yeah. I'm one of those funny people who like to understand the basics >before moving on to the higher level interface. :-) > >I suspect that this is why I don't get on well with Visual XXX. >Everything is fine until you want to do something which isn't catered >for by the interface. Then you realise there is black magic going on >behind the scenes and you can't access it. > >But that's another rant :-)
Which doesn't have anything to do with using a higher-level module. Do you do your CGI programming by hand as well, or use CGI.pm? IO::Socket just makes things easier. It doesn't stop you from getting at low-level stuff if you have a need. > > I'd suggest rather IO::Socket. And if the OP can spring for it, Lincoln > > Stein's Network Programming in Perl book. > >Yes, good. > >Though I did say starting off with. If you follow the doc trail you do >get to IO::Socket, although not to LDS's book. I was going to give just >the first reference ... -- Peter Scott Pacific Systems Design Technologies http://www.perldebugged.com -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
