Re: [Mod-pubsub-developer] libwww-perl

[Gregory B. <gre...@ya...>]

Hey Joyce,

On Monday, November 25, 2002, at 01:25  AM, Joyce Park wrote:

> Hi guys, I'm working on spiffing up the installation instructions for
> mod_pubsub.  You know how Rifkin always _thinks_ his writing is so
> clear, but it's not?  :-P  Anyway, a couple of questions:
>

My suggestion, keep an eye on Rifkin.  He is on a Mission.  :)

> 1)  Does libwww-perl work on Windows?  If so, with normal Windows
> Perl and ActiveState Perl both?
>

Yep, it works on Windows.  It works with both cygwin's perl and 
ActiveState Perl.  The only difference is how much additional work is 
required after install.  Also note that mod_pubsub should (read: has in 
the past) run via IIS (gack) as well as Apache on Windows.  But who 
would want to do that?

> 2)  The libwww-perl guy suggests that one also have installed several
> other Perl modules, including URI, MIME-Base64, HTML-Parser, libnet,
> and Digest-MD5.  Does anyone know if mod_pubsub requires any of
> these?

Yep, it does require those.  My memory isn't good enough for me to 
remember the exact list but I remember the frustration of going through 
this processes each time.  Both CPAN is and ActiveState's installers 
will fill in the dependent blanks if we integrate with them so that 
would be my suggestion.

>
> 3)  Is mod_pubsub SSL access via libwww, or mod_ssl, or what?
>

I'm no help here, I didn't demo SSL very much.

> Thanks, JP

keep up the good work.

-greg

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