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From: Aaron Sherman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: 25 Feb 2002 11:30:58 -0500
Subject: Active State: Still broken LWP?
To: "Boston.pm List" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Way back when I used Active State Perl on NT4 and found that the port
came with LWP, but LWP relied on the IO::Socket module which in turn had
a chunk of code like:
if ($Config{ostype} ne 'Win32') {
select(...);
}
This was for the timeout handling, so it meant that any LWP call under
windows would never time out, and no error or warning was generated.
I'm just now realizing that I'm still telling people not to use LWP
under windows based on this very old piece of data. Does anyone know if
it's still a problem?
Thanks.
