I'm using a (now old) Debian Potato machine that has LWP
perl -MLWP -le 'print $LWP::VERSION'
5.47
A few years old. The machine is running 5.00503.
I'm having problems where $ua->simple_request() is hanging, even though
I've set a $ua->timeout. Even wrapping the request in an eval block with
an alarm() and $SIG{ALRM} handler doesn't work. I think I remember this
being an issue in the past, but I failed to see it in the Changes file (so
maybe I'm making it up??). I do remember the timeout not working if it was
the DNS lookup hanging.
Regardless, I'd like to get a more current version of LWP that will
correctly timeout -- the most current that will work with 5.00503, and I'd
also like to get keep alive functionality installed if at all possible.
But trying to do an upgrade with CPAN.pm, I first try to get URI, but:
t/urn-oid...........Use of reserved word "our" is deprecated at
blib/lib/URI/urn.pm line 9.
So, I'm wondering if I can install older version (and which version of URI)
to work with this version of Perl. Can someone suggest the version to try?
I tried Bundle::LWP but it wasn't long before CPAN.pm was trying to install
perl 5.8.0, of course. :-)
Thanks,
btw - It would be nice if there was a way with CPAN to install the most
current version of modules as of a given date (like -D with CVS).
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Bill Moseley
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