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

[Tom Hughes]

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          Graham Barr <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

> On Wed, Aug 09, 2000 at 11:41:42AM -0500, Jonathan Scott Duff wrote:
>
> >     open 'ftp://ftp.perl.org/';     # ftp
>
> What user/password does it use

Whatever you put in the URL with anonymous as default.

> >     open 'http://www.yahoo.com/';   # http
>
> will it support cookies, authentication ?

No reason why not.

> 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.

The suggested syntax does not necessarily conflict with the
above - the core might spot the xxx: scheme and try and load
an xxx.pm from some well known path and hand off the open to
that module.

Tom

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