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Postings from April 2000
On Mon, Apr 10, 2000 at 08:41:56AM -0700, Gurusamy Sarathy wrote: > On Mon, 10 Apr 2000 11:00:34 BST, Tim Bunce wrote: > >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. > > I would agree. The 5.6.0 behavior looks accidental. (BTW, I don't > understand what you mean by "warning". Perl doesn't produce any > warnings here.) Ah, that's just me badly speed reading p5p when I don't have time to read it at all. Tim.Thread Previous