Webmaster Forum / Perl / Modules / August 2007

I'm trying to make an Oracle 10g EE DB accessible via web-interface.
The perl-scripts that are run from console do work properly, but I don't
achieve in connecting to the database from the cgi-scripts.
Does anybody have a clue where I have to look?

Not sure if I should post this in comp.lang.perl.misc, but thought I'd
try here first.
I may need to connect to an Oracle server from a Perl client on a remote
machine without using DBD::Oracle on the client (because the

Could someone explain to me, why using Expect to handle the password
authentication is not recommended, since it is sent using SSH tunnel
(encrypted)?

I'm trying to use wsp to track some web page browsing. I think I have
everything installed correctly. I followed the basic instructions
here:
   http://michaelstarkie.com/perl/WEB_SCRAPING_README.txt

I tried
#!/usr/bin/perl
use Mail::Sender;
 $sender = new Mail::Sender

I know it is normal in this newsgroup to sneer at anyone who asks a
question that they don't already know the answer to.  But I'll give it a
shot anyway.
When my code says

I ask this question in specific relation to the "Development Stage"
choice on the PAUSE Register Namespace form, though I guess it is
really far more generic than that:
Is there a formal or accepted definition of the various stages of

The following doc :
http://search.cpan.org/~gbarr/libnet-1.19/Net/SMTP.pm#CONSTRUCTOR
says that you can call the constructor either like this :
$smtp = Net::SMTP->new(

I have a module that I don’t want to spend the effort to make it
work in Perl versions earlier than 5.8. Got no Unicode support?
You lose.
But how do I say this in the Build.PL?

NAME
   Kx - Perl extension for Kdb+ http://kx.com
SYNOPSIS
     use Kx;

I'm using "Wx::ActiveX::Acrobat" module. It needs "WxPerl" and
"WxWindows". I found "WxPerl" in SF.net and I could also install it
using command line ppm.
But when I list the installed modules using ppm again, I see only "Wx"

  I hope this isn't too stupid a question, but I haven't found
answers by looking up FAQs and googling. I have uploaded a module
to CPAN and now the test results from CPAN Tester are coming in.
There's one failure I don't understand yet but which taught me

so I am closer than ever to releasing my way-cool source filter module,
which is based on Filter::Simple.  Big question:  how do I write the test
script?

Error in Spreadsheet module
Hei friends,
i'am new in newbie in Perl, and i try i convert a excel file in csv
file  in Suse 10.0 linux.

On one of my systems, I'im following the actual
Win32 releases of Perl5 in order to check out and
decide what to install elsewhere.
I have an 'out of the box' install of Apache 2.2.4/Win32