Re: RFC 14 (v2) Modify open() to support FileObjects and

[Graham Barr]

On Wed, Aug 09, 2000 at 11:41:42AM -0500, Jonathan Scott Duff wrote:
> How about this?
> 
>       open '/etc/passwd';             # file

OK

>       open '/usr/local/bin/';         # directory (note the trailing '/')

Portability, not all platforms use /

>       open 'ftp://ftp.perl.org/';     # ftp

What user/password does it use

>       open 'http://www.yahoo.com/';   # http

will it support cookies, authentication ?

>       open 'ldap://ldap.bigfoot.com/';# ldap

maybe.

My point is that many of these protocols are more complex than I would
certain want open to handle. Leave the complex stuuf to those modules
and use the API they provide.

Graham.