Webmaster Forum / Perl / Modules / July 2006

attention, Beginner!
I'm wondering about the calculation from Modul Date::Calc.
The Code:
sub ids_tomorrow() {

I have written a script to grab some files via FTP. All is fine for all
file sizes when I run it from my development machine (Active Perl) but
when I use it on the ISP webserver (unix based) all works OK except
that files over 500k are ignored by the get method. The script does not

I have a very basic question regd retrieving information from website using
a scripting language:
Basically I am working on the development of a database where a user enters
an address (street, city, state, zipcode). Based on the user input of the

Following the "resounding success" [i.e. nobody complained] of my
File::StatCache module sitting in the File-StatCache CPAN distribution,
I'd now like to follow it up with a second module. This module builds on
top of the first, implementing a read cache. Simple behaviour - give it

After upgrading to Apache2 with modperl2 I have found that a CGI script
I have used without any trouble for years has develped the annoying
problem of intermittently returning to the initial page.
As far as I can figure out the POST data is not getting to the script.

I`ve got problem with module Net::SMTP.  I want to check my SMTP server
is working proparly so i run this script:
#!/usr/bin/perl -w
   use Net::SMTP;

I've installed the GD library (2.3.1)  on Active Perl 5.8.8 and have
recived this error:
GD object version 2.31 does not match $GD::VERSION 2.34 at
C:/Perl/lib/DynaLoader.pm line 253

Given the complete lack of any negative feedback on my previous message
(intending to CPANise some modules of mine), I've now gone ahead and
created the very first module; see
 http://search.cpan.org/~pevans/File-StatCache-0.01/

So how can I set up the environment prior to launching httpd so that
these values are available in <Perl> stanza's in httpd.conf?
It doesn't look like this is possible.
It looks like the only thing I can do is say

Hello All,,
I need some assistance please, i've been fussing with this for a while
but i'm stuck.
What i need here is, while my Style column in my .csv file continues to

I have a question on a testing strategy for a CPAN module test
script.... I've got two competing ideas on how to do it; I wonder if
anyone can suggest one or the other..
The function under test sends some data down a socket, then awaits a

I gave myself a headache trying to figure this one out.  Any help would
be much appreciated.  Just trying to understand how the Compress
module's inflate and deflate functions work.  My understanding is
calling deflate on an input stream (a string for example) will compress

I'm getting "can't find EOCD signature" errors from Archive::Zip 1.16 on
files that seem to be valid i.e. I can open them fine with WinZip. Anyone
know why this might be?

It appears that I got shot down at PAUSE:

Is there anything out there that will generate a tree of  
dependencies, probably based on META.yml?
I figure I can pass in Mason, Test::WWW::Mechanize and Catalyst and  
get back a list of dependencies that those require.  It would be the