Webmaster Forum / Perl / Modules / December 2004

In the bryar distribution, i write out a bryar-newblog script that sets up a
blog in the current directory.  There is a bug filed on rt.cpan.org about this
script's reliance on /usr/bin/perl.
I am nearly always using a custom compiled perl in /usr/local/bin/perl so this

Hi. I think I have currently got two versions of Net::DNS installed on
my system. Perl has always run fine on my system and I've never needed
to delve into its inner workings but I appear now to have some problems
(specifically, I have just upgraded spamassassin to 3.0.2 and am now

I'm trying to execute the following (still incomplete) script:
use strict;
use Win32::IE::Mechanize;
my $ie = Win32::IE::Mechanize->new(visible=>1);

I'm having some problems understanding the running order of apaches
protocol handlers.
I have written a simple mod-perl handler that handles all html request.
However I do not want my handler to interfere with RTSP and PNM

From documentation of v2.010601:
    A memory leak on the PARI stack was possible in a rare situaton:
       if a PARI function returning a value which is not on stack
       (very few possibilities: gnil, gun etc.) is called when no

Hi, I'm trying to set the charset to UTF-8 for my DB connection in a
perl script.  This is what I'm doing:
$charset = "utf8";
$dbh_archive->dbsetdefcharset($charset);

Hello, perhaps someone can help me. I'm in the process of updating some
in-house software written in Perl. The printing feature currently
prints out reports in tried-and-true monospaced ASCII text. I would
like to update this a tad, using some different fonts/styles and some

I'm designing a new module to include a little rewritting language on
Perl. It will be based on Filter::Simple.
First, I imagined :
Text::Rewrite

I've noticed that when authors validate string values as inputs, they often
check that the value is not a reference.
The problem is that it disallows objects that are overloaded to behave like
strings.

I'm trying to write a sub that can get all sorts of Web pages, and find
that LWP::Simple::get works well for most non-authenticated pages, but
not for all.  Below is some sample code to illustrate.  Any ideas on
why the first get() fails to return anything but undef?

Using the latest cpanel which has tons of pre-installed perl modules. There
is no documents on how to run the these modules. I have no access to
uploading these modules and placing them on my website so how can I run
these modules from my website. If someone has a short example on ...

I am writting an application in MS Access/VBA. I have an event that
will enter information into (so far) two tables via dynamic SQL
scripts:
1. INSERT info. into table A

Lo all:
    Getting this weird error:
File::Spec version 0.08 required--this is only version 0.87 at
/usr/lib/perl5/5.8.3/File/Temp.pm line 129.

NAME
   Test::MockRandom - Replaces random number generation with non-random
   number generation
SYNOPSIS

All,
I am trybing to install XML::LibXML v 1.58 and am getting the foloowing
compile problems:
perl-libxml-mm.c: In function `nodeC2Sv':