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On Sat, 08 Apr 2000 18:32:03 PDT, dave@interactivetools.com wrote:
>Full_Name: Dave Edis
>Version: ActivePerl 613
>OS: Windows NT 4.0 SP 6
>Submission from: (NULL) (24.113.48.112)
>
>
>Perl 5.6 seems to "break" all our sockets code. Attached is
>a sample script that works great in 5.005 but returns
>"Unknown Error" in 5.6.
>
>We've duplicated it on NT 4.0 SP6 and Win98 with both a upgrade
>and a clean install of ActivePerl.
>
>
> use IO::Socket;
> $remote = IO::Socket::INET->new(
> Proto => "tcp",
> PeerAddr => "www.yahoo.com",
> PeerPort => "http(80)"
> );
>
> if (!$remote) { print $!; exit; }
>
>
>I think this may be related to bug report #64.
>Any insights would be greatly appreciated. Thanks guys!
This happens because Windows is missing an entry for "http" in the
winnt/system32/drivers/etc/services database. It works if you
add a line like the following in that file:
www 80/tcp http
It apparently worked in previous versions because IO::Socket used
to ignore failures in looking up the service name when the port was
also specified, but doesn't anymore.
Sarathy
gsar@ActiveState.com
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