Yes and no. Or maybe no and yes. Or maybe just no. As was noted on the
previous, a URL won't work out of the box. You could roll your own
quick-and-dirty using LWP and the 'eval' function. If the module were
available via (e.g.) a UNC name, that would work.
But you have to be careful with web servers. Www.dokos-gr.net is running
Apache, and /cgi-bin/ is _usually_ for CGI scripts. So if RWAPSoft/cgi-bin
is configured as a CGI directory, what you'll get back is the results of
_running_ the script, not the script itself.
Besides, you suffer whatever latency is involved in fetching the file over
the net.
Okay, I'll bite. Why in the world would you want to do this in the first
place?
This is very interesting - thanks for the various contributions - I had a feeling that it would not be easy.
The reason for this is so that I can write software for use on other people's servers, without having to copy my library routines across to their server - makes for easier housekeeping, as I would only need to update the one set of library files.
The other reason is security (yes, I realise it does not make much difference), but at least I would not be handing the source of my libraries over to the purchaser of my software...
Is there a better way??
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Rich Mellor
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