Re: Make IO::Socket::INET pick up LocalAddr from the ENVIRONMENT

On 26 Oct 1999 09:08:21 -0000, Gisle Aas wrote:
>I have had several requests for a way to control the 'LocalAddr' used
>for connections made by LWP.  I think the best way to deal with this
>is to make is configurable at the IO::Socket::INET level.  In this
>patch I have chosen to make it default from an environment variable.
>Another approach could be to provide a class method or simply a global
>variable like $IO::Socket::INET::DEFAULT_LOCAL_ADDR.  Any other
>thoughts or suggestiong for a better environment variable name?

I don't much like using %ENV for holding defaults for modules.

A global in the IO:: namespace is better, but it seems to me the default
for LocalAddr should automatically be the most typical/reasonable one
("localhost"?), without people having to poke around globals.


Sarathy
gsar@ActiveState.com

• Make IO::Socket::INET pick up LocalAddr from the ENVIRONMENT by Gisle Aas
• Re: Make IO::Socket::INET pick up LocalAddr from the ENVIRONMENT by M.J.T. Guy
• Re: Make IO::Socket::INET pick up LocalAddr from the ENVIRONMENT by Gisle Aas
• Re: Make IO::Socket::INET pick up LocalAddr from the ENVIRONMENT by M.J.T. Guy
• Re: Make IO::Socket::INET pick up LocalAddr from the ENVIRONMENT by Ilya Zakharevich
• Re: Make IO::Socket::INET pick up LocalAddr from the ENVIRONMENT by Gisle Aas
• Re: Make IO::Socket::INET pick up LocalAddr from the ENVIRONMENT by Gurusamy Sarathy
• Re: Make IO::Socket::INET pick up LocalAddr from the ENVIRONMENT by Gisle Aas
• Re: Make IO::Socket::INET pick up LocalAddr from the ENVIRONMENT by Graham Barr
• Re: Make IO::Socket::INET pick up LocalAddr from the ENVIRONMENT by Stephen Zander