Thanks everyone - I'll look into CPAN modules in more detail.
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[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Ian Cain
Sent: Wednesday, February 07, 2001 6:43 PM
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I agree completely. I have installed many cpan modules on windows NT.
Having gnu-gcc, linker and cygwin (bash shell and unix tools emulation)
installed on the NT box helps.
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From: Fisher, James [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Wednesday, February 07, 2001 6:43 AM
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Just because its not on activestates site, doesn't mean its not available.
The vast majority of perl modules available from CPAN will work with
activestates implementation. Goto cpan.perl.com and get module
JF
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From: Bill Stennett [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Wednesday, February 07, 2001 4:03 AM
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The Crypt::SSLeay works OK. Unfortunately Activestate don't seem to have a
version of IO-Socket-SSL for the WIN32 platform (only linux and solaris) so
I think we may have to look at something other than PERL.
Thanks for your help
Bill Stennett
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Sent: Tuesday, February 06, 2001 3:55 PM
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Subject: RE: PERL and secure Sockets
Install CRYPT::SSLeay
how to
- Open dos prompt
- type ppm
- type "install Crypt::SSLeay"
- type "y"
- done
Then you can just use a normal LWP request and just put an s on the end of
https.
If you need lower level functionality you will have to get the io-socket-ssl
module. Since you were having issues with ppm, you could just go to CPAN
and download the tar and install it or go to www.activestate.com/packages I
think or its /modules.
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From: Bill Stennett [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Tuesday, February 06, 2001 7:44 AM
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Subject: RE: PERL and secure Sockets
Thanks Thomas
We are indeed using the activstate version of PERL. I don't seem to be able
to access the io-socket-ssl module though. I changed (I think) the PPM
repository to point to http://www.ActiveState.com/PPMPackages/5.6plus/ but
PPM will not list / install the modules. I'll keep plugging away at it.
One question though: do you know if the
http://www.ActiveState.com/PPMPackages/5.6plus/ directory requrires a
particular version of PERL etc. I just wounder why the modules are in this
directory and not in the standard repositiory?
Also, I have searched high and low for examples of how this module shopuld
be used but to no avail. If anyone has any examples of using IO-Socket-SSL
it would be very intersesting
Thanks
Bill
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[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Thomas Bätzler
Sent: Tuesday, February 06, 2001 10:41 AM
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Subject: RE: PERL and secure Sockets
Hi,
> Bill Stennett [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] asked:
> Does anyone have any experience of using PERL to communicate over a secure
> socket? To make matters worse we need to run PERL on a Windows NT
> platform.
>
I haven't tried this (yet), but a quick CPAN search would suggest
that the Perl module IO::Socket::SSL has what you need. See
http://search.cpan.org/doc/ASPA/IO-Socket-SSL-0.77/lib/IO/Socket/SSL.pm
for a description of the module.
Now if you're on NT, it's almost certain you'd want to use the
ActiveState Perl port (http://www.activestate.com). However, the
IO::Socket::SSL module is not in their standard repository. You
will have to add http://www.ActiveState.com/PPMPackages/5.6plus/
to the list of repositories to search in ppm, their Perl Package
manager.
HTH,
Thomas
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