Gisle Aas said:
> > ... BTW while I'm here -- can anyone suggest a way of working around the
> > requirement for MIME::Base64 in LWP, or at least a way I could distribute
> > M::B as "plain old perl code" rather than requiring it be built for each
> > platform? This one pkg makes sitescooper installation on a vanilla perl
> > distro a little more tricky than it should be :(
>
> MIME::Base64 should work directly if you just copy the MIME/Base64.pm
> somewhere in the PERLLIB path. It will automatically fall back on the
> slow-pure-perl implementation if it can't find its .so-file.
> Base64 is used by LWP to set up and decode basic authorisation headers.
Great! Good news. The only reason my script required M::B was to support
LWP -- and therefore it's only used in the auth headers (where speed is
not so essential, I hope).
Thanks,
--j.
