Re: Module submission WWW::Shorten

2002-08-29 Thread Iain Truskett 

* brian d foy wrote:
> In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:

> > The following module was proposed for inclusion in the Module List:
> > > modid:   WWW::Shorten
> > DSLIP:   Rdpfp
> > description: API to URL shortening services

> should this live in the URI namespace?

A good idea.

> maybe not---when i tried the actual service, it couldn't handle most
> things i tried. it seems prejudiced against anything that's not HTTP.
> even then it had trouble *shrug*.

How so? Which service did you try? What sort of URLs?

I have found web browsers tend to be reluctant to do some redirects
(e.g. http to telnet), but that's more a browser problem.

Anyway, if the services are prejudiced against the protocols, that's
more a limitation of the services rather than the modules. After all,
the modules only provide an interface to the servers.

> i think something in the namespace should say something about what
> you're shortening, though.

A good idea. The current name mostly came about as an evolution of
WWW::MakeAShorterLink, hence WWW::Shorten::*. A shift to URI::Shorten
may be more sensible.


cheers,
-- 
Iain.

PAUSE ID Request - SPOON

2001-12-09 Thread iain truskett 


Name: Iain Truskett
Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Homepage: http://eh.org/~koschei/
Desired CPAN-ID: SPOON

Contributions:

  + A module that acts as an interface between programs and the StarNet
Data Accounting system (ghastly system used in some residential
places to provide accounting for network usage).

  + Tie::NetLDAP - like Tie::LDAP, only for the Net::LDAP modules (the
pure Perl LDAP interface).

  + Assorted Apache modules as they get abstracted from the somewhat
specific versions used for the websites I maintain.


cheers,
-- 
iain.  <http://eh.org/~koschei/>



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