Webmaster Forum / Perl / Modules / June 2006

I would like to use the IO::Socket::SSL module on a win32 system.
Unfortunately, this has launched me into a series of dependencies
(Net::SSLeay, openssl) which stubbornly refuse to compile.
Has anyone here had success building and installing openssl

Over the last year or so of working on various projects in perl, I've
built up a collection of useful perl modules to do various things I've
found I need to do regularly. I've taken the decision I should put these
on CPAN.

A few of our servers reject connection via Net::FTP with the error
  "PASV is disabled"

tries to establish the connection via passive mode, but the server

I have a perl module that facilitates file downloads. Researchers often
need to download some files off the web on daily bases. These files
could be anything such as text documents, power point slides, word
docs, or excel sheets. The program reads an XML input file, where

Greetings.  What's intended to happene to all the Perl5 CPAN modules ?
Will there be big push for authors to translate their stuff into Perl6 ?
Can the translation be automated ?
In fact will it be done automatically anyway ?

Is there a way to update installed modules? Cpan only seems to offer
checking for updates and then manually reinstalling.
Jim Ford

I am writing a perl script to query an ldap database and find users who
do not belong to any mail distribution list. I can run the query just
fine, but my problem is getting only results back for users who do have
an attribute entry for the field "memberOf". Here is my code

I have this simple Mime::Lite script quoted below.
It works alright.
But I would like to trace the result of the output.
Something like

Hi Dr. Conway!
I'm CCing this message to module-authors@perl.org, to hear what people think
and to encourage other authors to consider it.
You have quite a few distributions on the CPAN:

Is there a library or a way to generate an appropriate regular
expression for any given input string?
(remove quotes for examples)
For example: "1234567890abcdef is in hex9"

I am trying to find a perl module that allows me to retrieve my email
from a server that requires SSL authentication.  I am currently using
Net::POP3 and I tried all the different types of logging in such as
auth(..), login(..), and apop(..) which are sub routines defined in

I am working on my first CPAN-worthy module and would like your input.
From the pod:
=head1 NAME
WWW::Arbeitsagentur - Search for jobs via arbeitsagentur.de

I'm working on a project where I need to use a set of common regular
expressions in more than one programming language.  To facilitate this,
I've written Regexp::MultiLanguage which parses a simple language and
produces code that works in Perl, PHP, and JavaScript.  (plus, adding

I have a perl script named try.cgi, which is the action value of a form
containned in
test12.php file.Part of my try.cgi is as following:
#!/bin/perl -w

I have a .csv file which has 3 columns of data. Is there a
module that i can use that will allow me to manipulate this file.
Like remove some data from 1 column and add it to another, add
and remove columns etc...