Re: IO::Socket returns "Unknown error" (APR#257)

On Sun, Apr 09, 2000 at 08:43:02AM -0700, Gurusamy Sarathy wrote:
> 
> 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.

Why not?

I could understand it warning if the port numbers differ but I see no
value in warning if the name can't be looked up but a number has been
supplied.

Tim.

• Re: IO::Socket returns "Unknown error" (APR#257) by Gurusamy Sarathy
• Re: IO::Socket returns "Unknown error" (APR#257) by Tim Bunce
• Re: IO::Socket returns "Unknown error" (APR#257) by Gurusamy Sarathy
• Re: IO::Socket returns "Unknown error" (APR#257) by Tim Bunce