[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> Hi All
>
> Thanks to everyone for the suggestions. Unfortunately I'm
> still having no
> luck. I have upgraded the Win2000 SP2 box to 5.8.4.
>
> When I run the example below I get this error and the machine makes no
> attempt to connect to the requested URL ( I can tell 'cos I'm using
> 'tcpview' to look for activity. It's almost as though the PERL library
> doesn't think that there is a TCP connection available.
>
> ###########
> 500 (Internal Server Error) Can't connect to perl.org:80 (Bad
> protocol 'tcp') Content-Type: text/plain
> Client-Date: Wed, 01 Sep 2004 15:59:37 GMT
> Client-Warning: Internal response
> 500 Can't connect to perl.org:80 (Bad protocol 'tcp') ##########
>
> Not sure what this is about. Anyone got any ideas. I have the machine
> connected to to the internet via ADSL and everything work
> fine for browsing,
> ftp etc. and I have tried disabling the firewall etc.
The message "Bad protocol 'tcp'" is usually caused by the call to
getprotobyname failing. IIRC, all that this system call does is look up
the protocol ('tcp' in this case) in the file
c:winnt/system32/drivers/etc/protocol. Its possible that the other
programs that you have used don't call getprotobyname. If that file is
missing or corrupt, it might suggest that the OS or networking has not
been properly installed, or has been mucked about with in some way.
HTH
--
Brian Raven
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