I'm using Windows 98 Second Edition and ActivePerl 5.6.0 build 623. When I run PPM and do the "search" command (which is supposed to list all available packages), I get no results: >>> PPM interactive shell (2.1.2) - type 'help' for available commands. PPM> search PPM> quit Quit! >>> >From using a winsock spy program I've determined that PPM is actually getting a "server error" page from ppm.activestate.com. When I type "search", PPM connects to ppm.activestate.com and sends out the headers: >>> POST /cgibin/PPM/ppmserver.pl HTTP/1.0 Host: ppm.activestate.com User-Agent: SOAP::Lite/Perl/0.43 Content-Length: 447 Content-Type: text/xml SOAPAction: "urn:/PPMServer#fetch_summary" <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?><SOAP-ENV:Envelope xmlns:SOAP-ENC="http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/soap/encoding/" SOAP-ENV:encodingStyle="http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/soap/encoding/" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/1999/XMLSchema-instance" xmlns:SOAP-ENV="http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/soap/envelope/" xmlns:xsd="http://www.w3.org/1999/XMLSchema"><SOAP-ENV:Body><namesp1:fetch_s ummary xmlns:namesp1="urn:/PPMServer"/></SOAP-ENV:Body></SOAP-ENV:Envelope> >>> and gets back the headers: >>> HTTP/1.1 500 Server Error Server: Microsoft-IIS/5.0 Date: Mon, 05 Mar 2001 16:41:35 GMT Content-Type: text/html Content-Length: 332 <html><head><title>Server Application Error</title></head> <body><h1>Server Application Error</h1>The server has encountered an error while loading an application during the processing of your request. Please refer to the event log for more detail information. Please contact the server administrator for assistance.</body></html> >>> Is anybody else getting blank output from typing "search" at the PPM prompt? If not, do you happen to know what bytes are getting sent and received when you type the "search" command? If anyone is curious and/or would like my undying gratitude in helping to track this down, my winsock spy program is at http://peacefire.org/holder/wsock32.zip To use it: 1) download the zip file and extract the fake wsock32.dll to the directory where you'd like to work 2) open a DOS prompt, CD to that directory, and type SET WSOCK_LOG=LOG SET WSOCK_FLAGS=s These settings need to be set in the DOS environment for Winsock Spy to work. 3) type "PPM" to start PPM. 4) at the PPM prompt, type "search". A dialog box should appear saying that Winsock Spy has been invoked, and giving the name of the log file being recorded, in the form log.xx where xx are two hex digits 5) when the search command has finished (by listing all available packages if it's working, or by outputting nothing if it's not), type "quit" to exit PPM. Perl will crash, due to a bug in Winsock Spy, but you can ignore this crash. 6) send me the log.xx file or let me know what it says, so I can try to track down the differences. Or let me know if anyone has any simpler ideas... Thanks! -Bennett [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.peacefire.org (425) 649 9024 _______________________________________________ Perl-Win32-Users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://listserv.ActiveState.com/mailman/listinfo/perl-win32-users
