> Hi all! I'm working on my second ever perl script for a school assignment > and running into a quirk that I can't seem to figure out. > > If I telnet to an nntp server that requires authentication and issue a > command without authenticating first, I get an error message "480 > Authentication Required" > > However, in Perl, when I open a socket connection to a news server that > requires authentication, issue a command, and wait for a response, > everything hangs. It seems rather odd that it would hang when telnet > doesn't. Is there any way around this (without using the NNTP module - I'm > not allowed to)? >
Show us some code, there are lots of possible reasons.... > Thanks, > Rick > remove **NOSPAM** from e-mail address to respond > Not gonna happen. http://danconia.org -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <http://learn.perl.org/> <http://learn.perl.org/first-response>