I have been using version 5.22.1 for years, and it did what I needed to do. After all these years, I need some additional functionality, so I thought installing the latest might help.
Which is when I found that ActiveState has changed the installation process totally. Anyway, I went through the installation of the "recommended" version, and installation seemed to go fine.
I then ran the following simple code through both versions.
use HTTP::Tiny; my $url ='https://www.scrapingcourse.com/ecommerce/' ; my $response = HTTP::Tiny->new->get($url); print $response->{content}; Version 5.22.1 runs this fine and gives me the HTML of the page.
Version 5.36.3 gives me the following errors;
IO::Socket::SSL 1.42 must be installed for https support
Net::SSLeay 1.49 must be installed for https support
When I use the old ppm command for Version 5.22.1, it gives me a list of 271 packages installed.
When I used the new "state" command: "state packages", it showed nothing.
So I used "state" to "install" IO-Socket-SSL, and Net-SSLeay, and now those are the only two that show up in the "state packages" list.
But it did not change functionality. The error messages are still there, and no execution.
It doesn't complain about HTTP::Tiny.
I tried installing Strawberry. But it had a problem with a more complex part of my original project, so I went back to ActiveState 5.22.1, which works fine.
Anybody got any ideas about what I need to do to get 5.36.3 actually working?
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(di) 10 great CPAN modules released last week
Updates for great CPAN modules released last week. A module is considered great if its favorites count is greater or equal than 12. CGI...niceperl.blogspot.com
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Bowing to the inevitable - Perl Hacks
Data Munging with Perl was published in February 2001. That was over 23 years ago. It's even 10 years since Manning took the book out of print and the rights to the content reverted to me.Dave Cross (Perl Hacks)
Its been a long time since i've had to hack some code together so here just asking for advice as to where to start.
I have a group of printers (all have same web interface) on the corporate network. I would like to make a simple script that can login, and upload a config file (really its a list of users that have can scan documents, it doesn't matter what).
I've tried to google this with limited results, so wanted to reach out here to see if PERL would be the best answer for this.
I guess my question is, what modules should I look at to connect to a webpage in order to login then access a page behind the login and upload a file?
I looked into Mechanize but I do not believe it can handle javascript. Any advice or test scripts that do something similar would be greatly appreciated.
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I’m currently having to modify a library that used Smart::Match extensively since I can no longer turn off the zillions of lines of experimental warnings in recent Perls. For people who are in a similar situation it’s looking like Data::Compare can replace the situations where I was doing ‘@foo ~~ @bar’, and it’s easy enough to write a “does this hash have this key” helper.
Meta complaint: I was already a bit annoyed at the whole smartmatch “oh whoops actually this is now experimental” saga but now that I’m stuck fixing this breakage I’m $annoyed++. Im getting annoyed enough that I may choose an older Perl that was “good enough” and just stop using the new ones
See also: https://www.reddit.com/r/perl/comments/pimwma/how_do_i_stop_smartmatch_is_experimental_at/
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