Thanks for all the replies. It’s been a very interesting thread.
Frank
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> On 4Apr2017, at 11:13, SSC_perl wrote:
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>> On Apr 4, 2017, at 10:59 AM, John SJ Anderson wrote:
>>
>> I’m not sure what was behind the resolution of your problem, but I can
>> assure you I’m typing this on a Macintosh without wget installed, and
>> WWW::Mechanize works just fine.
>
>
> On 4Apr2017, at 10:43, SSC_perl wrote:
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> This is a heads up for anyone wanting to use WWW::Mechanize on OS X.
[snip]
Apple ships ‘curl’ instead of ‘wget’. Always has; not sure why.
‘wget’ is *NOT* required for WWW::Mechanize on MacOS, however. I’m not sure
what was behind the reso
> On Apr 4, 2017, at 12:01 PM, John SJ Anderson wrote:
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> ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
It’s been awhile since ascii art made me laugh. That’s a good one! :)
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On Tue, 4 Apr 2017 10:43:27 -0700
SSC_perl wrote:
> This is a heads up for anyone wanting to use WWW::Mechanize on OS X.
>
> I’ve been fighting with WWW::Mechanize all morning, trying to get it
> to work with no success. There were no error messages telling me what was
> wrong. I
> On Apr 4, 2017, at 10:59 AM, John SJ Anderson wrote:
>
> I’m not sure what was behind the resolution of your problem, but I can assure
> you I’m typing this on a Macintosh without wget installed, and WWW::Mechanize
> works just fine.
Weird. Which OS are you running? I’m on 10.11.6.
This is a heads up for anyone wanting to use WWW::Mechanize on OS X.
I’ve been fighting with WWW::Mechanize all morning, trying to get it to
work with no success. There were no error messages telling me what was wrong.
I checked my firewall to see if anything was being blocke
On Mon, Apr 3, 2017 at 6:55 PM SSC_perl wrote:
> Reading http://perldoc.perl.org/perlreftut.html I see it’s
> possible to create a scalar reference. What situation would require
> someone to create a reference to a scalar? I thought refs were only useful
> for passing complex data struc
On Mon, 03 Apr 2017 15:52:59 -0700, SSC_perl wrote:
> Reading http://perldoc.perl.org/perlreftut.html I see it’s possible to
> create a scalar reference. What situation would require someone to
> create a reference to a scalar? I thought refs were only useful for
> passing complex data structure
