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

[<kr...@po...>]

pubsub.cgi uses the URI module, so you need to have it installed.

I believe you need MIME::Base64 only if you have a route to a URI that
includes a username and a password,
e.g. http://bob:s3...@so.../cgi-bin/kn.cgi/what/chat
--- this is not really a good idea, though.

It doesn't use HTML::Parser or Digest::MD5 AFAIK.  

libnet provides access to various non-HTTP protocols, such as FTP;
pubsub.cgi doesn't use those either.

I don't think it currently supports routes to https:// URIs, unless
they're in the same event pool, but it might surprise me.  So it
doesn't, AFAIK, use the SSL support in IO::Socket::SSL via LWP.

However, it will run just as happily when you access it via HTTPS as
when you access it via unencrypted HTTP; we used to use mod_ssl, but I
imagine any web server supporting SSL (e.g. Raven, Stronghold, or IIS)
would work fine.


pubsub.py doesn't require any external libraries and doesn't support
SSL or off-host routes.

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