I've found that the GET/HEAD/POST/lwp-request scripts are broken
on Win32 platforms.
The command:
perl \perl\bin\GET -uSed http://www.activestate.com
results in:
\perl\bin\GET: \PERL\BIN\GET is not an allowed method
This is due to line 178:
$progname =~ s,.*/,,; # use basename only
Assumes a Unix-like system with a filepath separator character of '/'.
MS Win32 uses '\' for its filepath separator character.
Mac's are also broken since they use ':' for a filepath separator
character.
A better solution would be to use the File::Basename module to properly
parse the basename instead of the current non-portable hack.
Perl is 5.6.0 Build 617 for MS Win32 (ActiveState).
LWP version (ppm query libwww)
libwww-perl [5.48] Library for WWW access in Perl
Michael King
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