Bad protocol 'tcp' with perl/lwp module connections

2004-07-16 Thread Dirk Fokken, Cross Development
Running a cgi script like the following from the command line works pretty fine. Running the same script from within the browser result in an error message like: http://192.168.0.5/cgi-bin/lwp.cgi 500 Can't connect to search.cpan.org:80 (Bad protocol 'tcp') The sample script:

Problem: Perl with connections using LWP Module

2004-07-15 Thread Dirk Fokken, Cross Development
In an attempt to run a perl based web-application on Windows using Cygwin with Apache, I experience difficulties requesting content using the LWP module. The overall installation of Cygwin and the additional modules seems to be fine, since the call of the specific cgi-script from the command