On Mon, Aug 14, 2000 at 03:01:54PM -0700, Nathan Wiger wrote:
or less verbose,
$fh = open "http://my.homepage.com";
This is still up in the air. I think this will probably end up doing a
GET via the http handler on the webpage specified. That seems the most
natural, since
Sam Tregar wrote:
How is this better than File::Spec's approach?
File::Spec has the idea and representation dead on. However, the
interface is a pain; to write portable scripts you have to go through
some contortions.
With URI support, you still have to contort a little, but not as much.
On Tue, 15 Aug 2000, Nathan Wiger wrote:
With URI support, you still have to contort a little, but not as much.
Here's some better examples from an email I sent earlier:
$fo = open "file://c/docs/personal";
# Unix = /docs/personal# here, 'c' becomes '/'
# Mac =
