Change 19641 by [EMAIL PROTECTED] on 2003/05/30 15:59:57
A bit of networking notworking negativity.
(Inspiration from Jos.)
Affected files ...
... //depot/perl/pod/perlport.pod#136 edit
Differences ...
==== //depot/perl/pod/perlport.pod#136 (text) ====
Index: perl/pod/perlport.pod
--- perl/pod/perlport.pod#135~19495~ Sun May 11 13:01:10 2003
+++ perl/pod/perlport.pod Fri May 30 08:59:57 2003
@@ -487,6 +487,20 @@
if ($^O ne 'VMS')
{$thisperl .= $Config{_exe} unless $thisperl =~ m/$Config{_exe}$/i;}
+=head2 Networking
+
+Don't assume that you can reach the public Internet.
+
+Don't assume that there is only one way to get through firewalls
+to the public Internet.
+
+Don't assume that you can reach yourself or any node by the name
+'localhost'. The same goes for '127.0.0.1'.
+
+Don't assume that any particular port (service) will respond.
+
+Don't assume that you can ping hosts and get replies.
+
=head2 Interprocess Communication (IPC)
In general, don't directly access the system in code meant to be
End of Patch.
