Jarkko Hietaniemi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> But the structure you speak of exists only on the server. A URL as >> accessor reference doesn't really need to know anything about the opening >> of that path other than the fact that it is a URL. This renders it pretty >> useless as a structure to be interpreted *as* a structure as far as the > >if (open(BLAH, ">mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]")) { ... You mean something like: if (open(BLAH,">:URL","mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]")) { ... Now PerlIO/URL.pm has to know the semantics of /^mailto:/. If it does it can do DNS lookup for MX record for north.pole and presumably fail and return undef. Oops sorry that is perl5 ;-) -- Nick Ing-Simmons
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